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Basketball drills for technique dribbling

  • 2 groups
  • At the level of the free throw line

  • First a v-cut, then get ball
  • Pivoting and shooting
  • Own rebound
  • Connecting on the other side
Notice:
  • With pivot on right foot
  • Passing with right or left hand, depending on side
  • 20 scores

  • Pivot and dribble to goal, lay-up
  • Straight to goal driven
  • Pivot and dribble to goal, jump stop
drawing V-cut shooting
  • Everyone on baseline.
  • 3 defenders.
    • 1 at level of free throw line.
    • 1 at mid-line.
    • 1 at the free throw line.
  • Defense stays on their line, may deviate a bit.
  1. Players dribble across.
  2. Whoever loses ball becomes defender.
  3. Group of defenders gets bigger and bigger.
drawing Bird on a wire
  • 1 defender under each goal.
  • 2 groups at the center line.
  • 1 against 1 on each side of the field.
  • Defense stays put when scoring.
  • To score first 10 times.
  • Right and left.
drawing 1 vs. 1, full court
This exercise sounds simple but it certainly is not:
  • The idea is for the player with the ball to get past a 100% giving defender in 3 dribbles.
  • The scoring player stays put, misses then goes out and the defender may attack against a new person.
  • The goal is for the player to give everything during this exercise.
  • Here the attacker is forced to be explosive and use his whole body.
drawing Three step king of court
  • 2-3 players catch the ball.
  • The other players line up around the 3 point line.
  • 2 balls.
  1. Players run regular layups.
  2. Coach stands under the basket and each time a player arrives, raises a specific number of fingers.
  3. The players must then get that number right.
  4. This teaches them not to look at the ball.
drawing Lay ups - looking away from ground
Everyone has a ball.
  • Slalom around pylons, possibly with touching.
  • Dribble with bench. Both sides a foot.
  • Back line slides with ball overhead.
  • Dribble to center line and push up.
  • Layup.
Repeat 3 times.
Small room with 4 baskets:
  • Run laps with lay-ups over all baskets.
  • After whistle press up, tap, plank, jump with ball held in hands.
  • After the whistle turn around and left.
  • After the whistle accelerate.
Everyone a ball and distribute along the length of the field.

Dribbleback and forth; jump stop, pivot across or keep dribbling.
  • Warmup: start slow, 50, 70, 100%.
Variations:
  • Dribble left back, right back.
  • 2x left, 2x right.
  • Roll ball across ground, make 8s.
  • Hold ball and jump with 2 legs.
  • The Crab.
  • Between the legs, high and low.
  • Tap lines along the way.

  • Along the way 5x push-ups, 10 abs, 30 second taps.
  • Low dribble; fast left/right.
  • High dribble with hop, backwards.
    • Behind the back, turn on axis.

  • Push/pull front to back.
  • Side to side; left to right.
  • Side to side with cross over.

Standing
Stationary: through the legs. Step out, dribble, step back. 8-step low dribble, behind your back,
  • 3x left, 3x crossover, 3 x right.
  • With 1 hand push from left to right.
  • Through steps . Dribble backwards through legs and forward again, staying in one line.
  • Dribble from high to low, sit and stand up again.
Behind your standing legs dribble.

Pawns
  • 2 pawns; crossover touch pylon with your hand - screen ball.
  • 2 pawns, eight around pylons - 1 hand.
  • Row of pylons - slalom.

On the bench move forward by jumping on the bench and then off with bench between legs and ball above head.
drawing Dribble with exercise on bench
  • 2 players at bottom of goal.
  • 2 players left extended free throw line.
  • 2 players right extended free throw line.
  • 2 players at the center circle.
  • Team 1 players top and bottom.
  • Team 2 players left and right.
  • Team 1 starts dribbling toward each other does a change of direction and accelerates.
    Variations: crossover, between the leggs, behind the back, double action, back up dribble.
  • When team 1 has done the change of direction team 2 may leave.
drawing Dribble exercise
  • You make 2 teams divided over 2 baskets.
  • Dribble around the post and pick a side.
  • Run a lay-up.
  • The first to reach the proposed number of scores wins.
  • The losing team must run to the back line and back. (start on the back line and run to the back line)
drawing 2-basket shooting race

5 lines on the back line, trainer has the ball.

- 2 rows are defenders, rest is attack

- Everyone has to touch the middle line and then attack or defend

- Trainer throws ball in the field or in the circle