Basketball drills
A game is played on a half court.
- If the defense gains possession of the ball, the team must first score via a Quick break on the other basket with no defense.
- After scoring, this team remains on offense at half court.
- The team that first has 5 scores via a Quick break wins and the losers get to run 2 whole suicides.
- 3 Players.
- 3 pylons in between the 3pt line and center line.
- Coach shoots at the basket and the 3 players fight for the rebound.
- The player who has the rebound dribbles around the middle pylon and returns to the board to finish.
- Again the players fight for the rebound and the player who has the rebound goes around the middle pylon.
* 1 minute at high pace.
* The player with the most scores wins and the other 2 players 5 push ups.
* The player with the most scores wins and the other 2 players 5 push ups.
- 2 rows at the level of the 3pt line-corner.
- The PG stands at the height of the tip of the free throw line.
- The coach stands a few feet next to the PG to receive the dropped ball and pass the ball to the PG.
- PG passes to the left and the player on the left goes hard to the board to finish.
- The player on the right steps toward the attacking player as fast as he/she can to stop the attack.
- Then the PG passes to the right, and so on.
* High tempo
* 30 hit
* 30 hit
- 2 rows on the Elbow.
- PG stands at the height of the tip of the 3pt line.
- Coach stands at the same height to receive the drop ball. This he passes on to the PG.
- PG passes to the left; chest or bounce pass
- Player left may use at most one dribble and goes to the board at high speed to finish.
- Player right automatically becomes defender and tries to stop the attack.
* High speed
* 30 hit shooting
* 30 hit shooting
- Make 2 rows low at the Bucket.
- The PG stands at the top of the 3pt line.
- Coach stands at the same height receives the intercepted ball and passes it to the PG.
- The PG passes a hard pass to the player on the left.
- The player on the left finishes the ball without a dribble.
- The player on the right automatically becomes a defender.
- Then the PG passes the ball to the right and goes left to defend.
- Then passes to the other side.
- High tempo.
- Hitting 30 balls.
- Starting lineup
- 1 group left end line
- 1 group middle end line
- 1 group right end line
- Balls in the middle
- Progression:
- Player in the middle passes to player left
- Player on the left passes back to player in the middle
- Player in the middle passes to the right
- Player on the right does a layup and runs through to the other side
- Player in the middle runs around the cone on the right side and returns that way
- Player on the left takes the rebound and runs down the middle
- Play the same to the other side
- Progression:
- No dribbles
- Run the exercise 2 times in a row
- Run the drill 3 times in a row
- Right lay-up
- Left lay-up
- Make 4 groups of at least 2 players.
- Put the groups in a square.
- You can make the square as big as you want, the bigger the heavier.
- The first players from Blue and Red cross to each other, halfway receive the ball from White/Orange and pass the ball to the position they are running to.
- The moment White and Orange have passed the ball they also cross over, now receiving the ball passed from Blue and Red.
- If this is going well at some point, you can have the players pass in the other direction.
- Starting lineup:
- 5 players on one side of the field
- 5 players on the other side of the field
- 1 ball
- Conduct:
- Play 1 against 0
- Play 2 against 1
- Play 3 against 2
- Play 4 against 3
- Play 5 against 4
- Games 5 against 5
- Progression:
- 30 seconds rest before the next session starts
- Play this 5 times in a row until everyone has started once
- Play 6 against 6 if there are 12 of us
- Regression:
- Play this 1 time
- Starting lineup:
- 1 player guard
- 1 player right forward
- Rest players under goal
- Progression:
- Player under goal passes to the right forward
- Player under goal does a close out
- Right forward passes to the guard
- Right forward cuts in front of player doing close out -front cut
- Guard passes to right forward
- Right forward does a lay-up
- UPDATE
- Player under goal passes to guard
- Player under goal does a close out
- Guard passes to right forward
- Guard cuts in front of player doing close out -front cut
- Forward passes to the guard
- Guard does a layup
- Progression:
- With enough players, split the group into 2
- Player cuts behind the player doing close out -rear cut
- The ball starts in the middle.
- The blue player stays in the middle and always grabs the rebound on both sides of the court. He passes the ball to the outlet.
- The white player at the outlet passes the ball to the red player on the other side of the court and runs to the Free throw line.
- The red player runs the layup and becomes the new outlet.
- Blue grabs the rebound and passes to the outlet, red.
- Meanwhile, the white player has run back to receive the ball from red and run a layup.
- The blue rebounder makes sure the ball doesn't hit the floor!
An intense drill for:
- fitness
- team building
- perseverance
- passing
Variations:
- make x number of scores
- x number of scores in a row
IMPORTANT: build well
To make it easier:
- Ball may bounce once on rebound anyway
- The outlet may first set 1 or 2 dribbles before the long pass
- Starting lineup:
- 1 defender at the level of the free throw line
- Rest of the players in the middle of the center line
- Ball at the center line
- Progression:
- Player dribbles forcefully to in front of the free throw line and takes a shot
- Defense moves but does not prevent the shot
- Shotter takes own rebound and rejoins in the back
- Defense stays standing x number of times
- Progression:
- Defense comes up
- Offense does a crossover and takes a layup
- Extra defender on the lay-up
- Starting lineup
- 1 group left end line
- 1 group middle end line
- 1 group right end line
- Balls in the middle
- Progression:
- Player in the middle passes to player left
- Player on the left passes back to player in the middle
- Player in the middle passes to the right
- Player on the right does a layup and runs through to the other side
- Player in the middle runs around the cone on the right side and returns that way
- Player on the left takes the rebound and runs down the middle
- Play the same to the other side
