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Basketball drills

This is a high tempo drill:
  • One shooter to the left and one shooter to the right of the Bucket
  • The rest of the players stand under the board with a ball
  • White passes to the trainer -triangle red
  • The trainer passes left or right to one of the shooters
  • White provides a good Close Out, going high towards the shooter with 2 arms and contesting the shooter
  • The archer tries to hit under pressure
  • After 1 minute switch shooters
  • Variation: different shooting positions
drawing Shooting Under Pressure & Close Out
  • 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
drawing 1 VS 1 Tight cone drill
  • 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
drawing Lay-up warm up drill
  • 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
drawing Slides
  • 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
drawing Step slide lay up drill
  • 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
drawing 1 vs. 1 with step slide
  • Stand with the whole group in a circle in the middle of the field.
  • Each player 1 ball.
  • Dribble normal -hip height
  • Dribble low -below knee
  • Dribble extremely low -bounce no higher than ankle height
  • Dribble low -below knee
  • Dribble normal -hip height
  • Dribble extremely high -above shoulder
  • Dribble normal -hip height
  • Have the players sit while dribbling
  • Now have the players stand up dribbling
  • Have the players dribble sitting down again
  • Players now dribble between their legs
  • Have them stand again and make 8s between their legs, then ball around the waist as fast as possible, then the other way.
Notice:
  1. Each part can be done with both hands
  2. The coach acts as an example.
drawing Basic dribbling
  • Starting lineup:
    • 2 groups at the level of the free throw line
    • 2 players top of the bucket
  • Conduct:
    • Coach throws ball -or collide or roll-.
    • 2 players fight for the ball and play 1-on-1
    • Defense must be between ball and goal
  • Progression:
    • Score with up to 5 dribbles
  • Regression:
    • AFTER
drawing 1 vs. 1 top
  • Starting lineup:
    • 2 players defense on each side of the court
    • 2 players at the height of the extension of the free throw line on each side of the court
    • 3 players on offense
  • Conduct:
    • 3 players play 3-on-2
    • The rebounder gives an outlet pass to a player on the side of the court
    • The rebounder joins in offense to the other side of the court
  • Progression:
    • AFTER
  • Regression:
    • NA
drawing 11 man drill
  • Base lineup:
    • 1 player left on the end line
    • 1 player center on the end line
    • 1 player right on the end line
    • Ball in the middle
  • Conduct:
    • Middle player throws the ball against the board and takes rebound (as high as possible)
    • Middle player makes an outlet pass to the player standing to his/her right
    • The player standing to the left starts to run
    • Player receiving the first pass (right) takes 2 dribbles and then passes to the player running left
    • The player running left does a layup
    • The player running in the middle takes the rebound
    • The outside players cross and run back to the other side of the court
    • Here we do the same thing, first a pass to the right, then a pass to the left and finish with lay-up
  • Progression:
    • 1 dribble instead of 2
  • Regression:
    • Allow multiple dribbles
drawing Fast break and transition drill
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drawing Motion offense 5-out
  • Starting lineup:
    • 2 teams of 5 players
    • 3 attackers
    • 3 defenders
    • 2 players baseline one side of the field
    • 2 players baseline other side of the field
  • Conduct:
    • Playing 3 against 3
    • The defensive player who takes rebound or steal goes to the other side of the court with the 2 players who were baseline
    • The 3 attackers become defenders on the other side of the court
  • Progression:
    • Each player must have had the ball before there is a goal attempt
  • Regression:
    • AFTER
drawing 3 vs. 3 full court