Basketball drills
- Starting position:
- 1 attacker
- 1 defender
- 1 passer with ball
- Other players stand behind the passer
- Progression:
- Attacker must run free to receive the pass
- Once the pass is given, they play 1 on 1
- Stay on a quarter court
- Progression:
- Put the better players together
- Maximum of 5 dribbles
- Regression:
- Pass may be returned to the passer
- Starting position:
- 1 group near the center line, right
- 1 group a few meters behind the center line, middle
- Ball in the middle
- Progression:
- Player 1 dribbles in 2 dribbles to the three-point line
- Player 1 passes to player 2 who runs along
- Player 2 does a layup
- Player 1 takes the rebound and makes an outlet pass to player 2 who runs through
- Player 2 connects in the middle
- Player 1 connects on the right
- Progression:
- Extra defender under goal
- Score 10 layups in a row (or as many as there are players)
- Regression:
- Reduce distance to three-point line
- Starting lineup:
- 3 players in offense
- 3 players in defense
- Otherwise, players behind the end line in 3 groups
- Coach behind the end line
- Process:
- Coach gives a pass to 1 of the offense players
- Defense does a good close out
- Player 3 against 3
- Defense becomes offense
- Offense connects in the back
- Starting lineup:
- 1 group left under goal, second player a ball.
- 1 group right under goal, first player a ball.
- Coach stands just in front of goal.
- Progression:
- Player 1 without ball runs around the coach and receives the pass from player 2 and does a lay-up.
- Player 2 runs around the coach and receives the ball from the next player and does a lay-up.
- Players take their own rebound.
- Pass ball to own side.
- Progression:
- Coach takes a step backwards.
- Coach takes another step backwards.
- Regression:
- Taking shot instead of layup.
- Starting lineup:
- 1 group bottom left bucket
- 1 group top left bucket
- 1 group right bottom bucket
- 1 group right top bucket
- 1 ball
- Sequence:
- Player 1 passes to player 4
- Player 4 passes back to player 1 who comes running towards him
- Player 1 does a hand-off to player 4
- After this, the next session starts:
- Player 1 to player 4
- Player 4 to player 2
- Player 2 to player 3
- Player 3 to player 1
- This exercise lasts max 2 minutes and serves to get players alert
- Progression:
- With 2 balls
- With 3 balls
- Blue stands behind the free throw line.
- Red stands with his back to blue with the ball.
- On the starting signal, blue sprints to the baseline and sprints back to defend
- Red sprints to the center line and back to attack.
- Always score.
- Outward, the classic weave is run.
- Back, the weave is run up to the center line.
- The next 3 players ready to run the weave catch the current 3 players half court and a 3 versus 3 situation is created from which a score must always be scored.
- After the score, the newest 3 players run the weave and the next 3 will catch these players half court for a 3 versus 3.
- The attacker is given very little space to maneuver past the defender
- The attacker is not allowed to look at the ball
- The attacker accelerates
- The defender starts working on his footwork
- Once past the hats, the field is wider and scoring is possible
- Always score
- Variation: the defender stands in the middle of the narrowed field and the attacker starts further back so you get a more game-like situation
- Starting position:
- 1 group near the center line, right
- 1 group a few meters behind the center line, middle
- Ball in the middle
- Progression:
- Player 1 dribbles in 2 dribbles to the three-point line
- Player 1 passes to player 2 who runs along
- Player 2 does a layup
- Player 1 takes the rebound and makes an outlet pass to player 2 who runs through
- Player 2 connects in the middle
- Player 1 connects on the right
- Progression:
- Extra defender under goal
- Regression:
- Reduce distance to three-point line
- Teams of 2 people
- 5 hats on one side of the bucketline
- Make slides to hat, pick up hat and bring hat to other bucketline with slides
- When a player has brought all hats from one side to the other, the next player can bring the hats back to the other side with slides.
- Team that first has all hats back to the starting position wins
- Losers 10 push ups.
- Variation: run, slides and run
- Blue sprints to the center circle
- Slides to corner
- Sprint to center line
- Slides across center line
- Blue grabs a ball from one of the 2 hoops and makes a lay up
- Sprint to corner
- Tipping ball overhead on fingers and putting ball back into one of the hoops
- Sprint to baseline -starting position-
- Variation: With jumpshot; 15 hit
- Starting lineup:
- 2 groups baseline side by side
- 1 group has a ball
- Progression:
- Playing 1 against 1
- Until the center line, defense step slide passively
- After the center line plays 1 against 1
- Progression:
- Active defense during step slide
- Extra defender under goal
- Regression:
- Passive defense
