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Blue passes the ball against the board and grabs the rebound and then attempts an outlet pass to Red.
White tries to prevent the outlet pass.
After a successful outlet pass, Red passes the ball to Orange.

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Make pairs.
Player under the basket passes to the player on the free-throw line.
The attacker has an advantage in time and can shoot freely.
If the attacker scores or he has the offensive rebound he stays shooter, if the defender has the rebound the players switch positions.

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2 teams.
Everyone a ball
Shooting from 7 positions.
When you have shot you go for your own Rebound, if you have caught your Rebound without the ball touching the ground you may score again immediately.
15 touches per position per team.
So you can score 2 points at a time.
Half Court shot, 1 hit no Rebound.
Losing side receives a gift :)

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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