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Basketball drills

  • You slide over the back lines and over the middle line and sprint over the other lines.
  • You run an eight twice and then a rest and that 3 times.
  • You start in the corner
drawing figure eights
  • You dribble to the center line while the defender sends you to one side until the basket-basket line and the off line after the center line 1v1
drawing crisp
  • outlet pass two by two attacks
  • and then quickly swipe
drawing Outlet pass
  • Pass layup
  • on the last pass there is a defender in a place where you can easily pass
drawing Pass layup
  • Shooting warm-up.
  • Matching pairs starting from the back line to the halfway line.
  • Minimum of 3 passes.
  • When you reach the halfway line, the player on the sideline dribbles to the middle, between the legs, behind the back around the pylon and back to the right.
  • Other player runs to a pylon outside the bucket, runs around it and offers himself for the pass.
  • Then takes the shot.
  • Passer rebounds and moves to opposite side of court for pairs, passes to opposite side and lay-up.
  • Ball may not touch ground.
  • 3 rows/players plus coach/passer.
  • Wing with ball, centre without, baseline without.
  • Player with ball passes to mid player, who passes to player running free from baseline to wing opposite side.


  • Wing weakside receives ball on wing, extended free throw line.
  • Drive to mid basket, jump stop, right leg step to "defender", finish left on left side.


  • Midfielder moves to spot where wing was standing, sets (fictitious screen), rolls to basket and receives pass from coach. Lay-up.
  • Wing 1 to mid, mid after lay-up, ball to coach, self to wing weakside row.
  • Wing 2, after jump stop/left lay-up with ball to wing 1.


drawing Pass-cut-roll-double lay-up
  • 1 player on the baseline,
  • 1 at the free throw line.
  • Sprinting to the center circle,
  • circle and then diagonally to the corner.
  • Back players try to touch the front players.
  • Put on zone defense 2-1-2.
  • 2-3 same.
  • Younger players first.
  • 4-5 passers.
  • Let zone move.
  • Triangle rebounding (weakside P)
  • Show start offense........
  • Two rows.
  • 1 row/passers, first 3 a ball on three point line next to center.
  • Other row/shooters on baseline left or right.
  • S1 moves, receives pass and shoots.
  • P1 catches, passes ball to P4 and joins behind row of shooters.
  • S1 joins row of Passers.
  • Touch is 1 point. First one at 5 is out. They're going to run layups on the other basket.
  • 3 pilons. Passer/coach. Around the pylon, get the ball, run a lay-up.

  • As a team on the back line.
  • Simultaneously jog to center line/back. 3x.
  • All running at the same time.
  • 2 rows of back line. Sprint to free throw line.
  • Jog to center line.
  • Back the other way.
  • Connect other row. (4x)
  • 2 rows left/right on backline.
  • Slides to free throw line, sprint diagonally back to other looking.
  • Side of your own row.
  • Jog back via the outside, connecting other group. (4x) ......stretchen.
  • Set up Baseline.
  • Sprint to the free throw line.
  • Back it up.
  • Slide baseline to the left.
  • Plus 2 slides diagonally.
  • Then sprint to corner diagonal.
  • Backward sprint with hands in the air.
  • 2 best defenders on the side of the ball. 1 and 2, or 1 and 3.
  • These 2 pick up the 2 who want to get the ball on the inbounce. No defense on inbounce.
  • 3 (or 2), weakside with man.
  • 4 midcourt. The interceptor (lob passes etc).
  • 5 own half mid, between 2 men, choose ballside player to defend as prio!