Basketball drills
Per 2 players facing each other.
Play ball across:
Play ball across:
- Chest pass.
- Right pass -step around push pass-.
- Left pass.
- Overhead pass.
Variation:
Put a defender between the 2.
On wrong pass, passer becomes the defender.
Put a defender between the 2.
On wrong pass, passer becomes the defender.
- 2 sides of the field.
- Put down 3 pylons; 3-point, 2-point, 1-point.
- 2 rows, can also do 2 per side if there are too many players.
- 1 player shoots 3x in a row, 1x from each position, and we count out loud.
- Whoever gets to 31 first.
- 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.
- Players dribble across.
- Whoever loses ball becomes defender.
- Group of defenders gets bigger and bigger.
- 3 groups: Top, down left, down right.
- Top passes to right, player already running to next spot.
- Important to pass in front of player
- 30 successful passes.
- 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.
Warm up drill:
- 2 rows in the corner of the field, diagonally.
- The 1st player without ball goes running, the 2nd player gives baseball pass.
- 2 groups at center line level.
- 2 players look towards goal.
- Coach throws ball towards goal.
- 2 players fight for the ball and play 1 against 1.
- 2-3 players catch the ball.
- The other players line up around the 3 point line.
- 2 balls.
- Players run regular layups.
- Coach stands under the basket and each time a player arrives, raises a specific number of fingers.
- The players must then get that number right.
- This teaches them not to look at the ball.
- All players stand in the five positions; five out.
- Each time the ball is passed and the player runs in and to the bottom spot.
- The whole team moves up a bit.
- You do this for x number of rounds.
- Warm-up exercise without ball - 5 minutes of +- 5 rounds.
- 4 cones in a square in the room with one exercise performed along each side:
- Sideways shuffling with the face turned to 1 particular side.
- Swinging arms, per round this can be alternated forward/backward.
- Side shuffling with the face turned to the same side as last time so that the other leg is now first.
- Skipping, lifting knees, can be alternated per round with seat touching.
Everyone a ball and distribute along the length of the field.
Dribbleback and forth; jump stop, pivot across or keep dribbling.
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.
- 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
Pawns
- 2 pawns; crossover touch pylon with your hand - screen ball.
- 2 pawns, eight around pylons - 1 hand.
- Row of pylons - slalom.
- B passes the ball to C
- B runs to cone receives ball
- B scores lay up
- B joins row C
- C passes the ball back to line B
- C goes to take the rebound from B
- C goes to line A
- A passes the ball to B
- A connects in row B
