Basketball drills
- Players stand in a circle; pass the ball to your neighbour; after the ball has gone round several times, bring another ball into the circle.
- Depending on the number of players add more balls.
- Variation: the players stand alternately facing or with their backs to the circle.
- Horizontal circles; the ball is passed sideways to the partner, who gives the ball back on the other side.
- Vertical circles; passing the ball above the head, accepting it between the legs.
- Eight circles; the ball is passed between the players; turn against each other; after receiving, pass the ball in front of the body to the other side.
- As previous exercise; perform with arms extended.
- Players are spread out in the room; everyone has a ball.
- The ball is held between the legs with two hands. The right hand is in front of the body and the left hand behind the body.
- The ball must be prevented from falling to the floor by changing hands very quickly.
- Attacker/defender start just right of midcourt next to each other.
- Attacker starts on the right.
- Passer behind (coach if necessary). Lob pass, roll or other.
- free play on 1 or 2 baskets, depending on the number of players.
- PURPOSE: Quick passing, cutting, helpside, ballside, boxing-out.
- First team at 5.
- Loser push-ups 6.
- Depending on the number of balls.
- Pairs or alone.
- In singles.
- Start at your position, dribble to opposite side of basket.
- Set or jump shot from your position (guard, forward, center).
- Up to 8 hits.
- In pairs.
- Start from position, pass to opposite basket.
- Last pass must be good so that shooter in jumpshot is ready for his/her shot.
- Up to 4 touches per player!!!!!
- Losers, 1x back and forth slides in width.8 hoops/pawns for shooting positions.
- Circle the ball alternately around: hips, thighs, knees, calves, ankles, chest, head.
- Foot Stride; circle the ball first around the different parts of the front leg, then the back leg.
- Spreading stance; same as previous exercise.
- As previous exercise. After each circle alternate with the other leg.
- Eight circle.
- Alternate between squatting and standing while dribbling.
- Dribble while sitting down and standing up again.
- Dribble while lying on your back; stand up while dribbling at the signal.
- Dribble while lying down and standing up again.
- 2 rows of which 1 row has the ball.
- Passes to the middle line from the middle line 1 vs 1.
- When passing, make sure the persons keep running straight and don't go sideways.
- Everyone has a ball stands on the sideline.
- Exercises are alternated with
- crossover,
- between the legs
- etc.
- free play on 1 or 2 baskets,
- depending on the number of players.
- NO dribbles only passing.
- The teacher sets out three areas of approximately equal size with pawns.
- It is best to use the volleyball lines (see map).
- There are three sections (see map):
- Left: barons square (losers square)
- Middle: princes section (neutral section)
- Right: king of the court (winner section)
- All students stand in the middle section.
- With a signal from the teacher the game starts.
- All pupils have to try to tap/strike the ball of another pupil out of the box.
- If you succeed you move one square to the right.
- If your ball is knocked away you move up one square to the left.
- If you hit/tap someone's ball out of the box on the right you score a point.
- If your ball is knocked out of the winner's box you lose all your points.
- If your ball is knocked out of the left box nothing happens and you stay standing.
- When the teacher gives the final signal the person with the most points is king of the court and he/she has won.
- The teacher chooses 2 tickers.
- They have to stay inside their box (inside the 4 pawns) and knock the basketballs away from the runners when they want to cross.
- The runners have to dribble to the other side without losing their basketball.
- If a runner doesn't have his basketball with him, he's out and he automatically becomes a ticker.
- A tip that you can give to the runners is that they should shield the ball with their body.
- This means staying between the ball and the opponent.
- The pupils may only cross again when everyone has been tagged or has reached the other side.
- In the end, as the game progresses, you get more and more tickers and less and less runners.
- The last remaining runner is the winner.
