Basketball drills for technique dribbling
- Up to 8 players in the center circle or freethrow circle.
- On starting the game, each player has to protect the ball whilst attempting to knock the ball away from other players.
- Last man standing wins!
- Dribbles 15x per hand
- Pound dribbles 15x per hand
- Dribble cross 10x2
- Dribble between 10x2
- Dribble behind 5x2
2 Rounds
- 1st round:
- Start at sideline on knees,
- jump up,
- through legs 2x,
- run to the other side.
- 2nd round:
- through legs, behind the back, through legs
- 3rd round:
- through legs, spin, through legs,
- 4th round:
- though legs, behind back, through legs, spin, through legs,
- 5th round:
- through legs till other side
- Installation:
- For 2 players 1 ball
- 1 player baseline
- 1 player at free throw line with ball
- Player baseline runs to other player and receives pass.
- Land, crossover step, 3 dribbles, jump stop, pivot.
- Pass to next player.
- Across the length of the court.
- Variations:
- Catch, spin, reverse pivot - heel lift when pivoting-
- Front stop, half pivot, pivot forward
- Jump and turn in the air, turn and face
Players in two lines in the middle of the court:
- Player 1 runs without the ball to the top of the key
- Receives a pass from player 2 in the other line
- Performs a first step (sidestep, cross over step, spin, etc.)
- Drives to the basket
Player 2 does the same on the other side of the court.
- Player 1 with ball Passes ball to Player 2 and
- Takes place of Player 2
- Player 2 dribbles towards cone a
- Player 3 runs towards cone a
- As soon as pass is possible Player 2 hands ball off to player 3
- Player 2 takes the place of player 3
- Player 3 dribbles toward cone b and passes to player 4 when possible
- Player 4 asks for the ball under the goal and finishes
- Player 3 takes the place of player 4
- Player 4 goes down the sideline to player 1's line past the hats with slalom dribble
Divide the group into 2 teams.
- Tell the story that it is autumn and the nuts are falling from the trees.
- We are a group of squirrels and we need to gather as many nuts as we can to survive the winter. The team with the most nuts wins.
- The coach scatters the nuts (can be ping pong balls, tennis balls or other small balls).
- On the coach's signal, all players may start collecting nuts all dribbling.
- They may bring one nut at a time to their nest.
- When all the nuts are collected, we count the nuts per team and the team with the most nuts wins.
- The chaos forces the little players to look around and not at the ball when they are dribbling.
Variation:
- dribbling with weak hand
Tag game - ideal as a warm-up for players U8 - U10
- 1 Ticker (the bird of prey)
- The others are little birds
- The little birds start on the sideline and must dribble over to the other sideline.
- They must not be tapped by the big bird of prey.
- If they are tapped, they become a fowler.
- At the spot where they are tapped, they put the ball between their feet and become additional, stationary tickers.
- The winner is the last player who is not tapped. This one can become the new bird of prey in the next game.
Variations:
- Dribbling with the weak hand only
- Predator with a ball
Dribbling exercise with overdribbling from sideline to sideline.
- Dribbling strength hand with ball at hip level. Note: hand above the ball, pushing on the ball (not hitting), all fingers touching the ball
- Dribble strong hand at knee level. Note: back straight! do not walk bent over but bend at the knees
- Dribble with strong hand to eye level. Note: hand remains above the ball, push well on the ball
- Roll ball to the opposite side. Note: under control, ball not too far from hand, touch ball with fingertips
Variation:
- same exercise but with weak hand
- Perform at a higher speed
- First Jumpstop, Fake and to the basket.
- Jumpstop, shot.
- Ball in the run and to the basket.
- Baseline dribble and finish with "wrong hand".
- 3-3 half court
- Cone setting
- Team that intercepts the ball first goes behind the cone before they are allowed to score.
- The player who has the ball may dribble for up to 5 seconds then they must have passed or shot. This only counts if they have been behind the cone.
- First cone, close-out
- Sliding to second cone
- Run around the last cone
- Grab ball
- Lay-up
