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Basketball drills

  • Starting Position:
    • Players stand at a cone or hat
  • Progression:
    • Set shots are taken at close range
    • Arm stretch with ball on hand, arm fold and hand turn and shoot
    • Own rebound
    • Shoot 10 times and then switch positions
  • Progression:
    • Standing further from the goal
    • Taking correct free throw
  • Regression:
    • AFTER
drawing Shooting basics
  • Starting lineup:
    • 1 player at the free throw line
    • 5 players stand around the bucket
  • Course:
    • Player takes the free throw
    • Other players fight for the rebound
    • 1 point if you score the free throw
    • 1 point if you take the rebound
    • Play to 5 points
    • Each in turn, shuffle through clockwise
  • Progression:
    • 2 points if it is an offensive rebound
    • Play to 7 points
  • Regression:
    • Having fewer players rebound
drawing Free throws with rebound
  • Full field
  • Per 2 players
  • All players a ball
  • Players face each other on the end line
  • In the middle are 5 cones with tennis ball on them and 5 cones without tennis ball.
At the Go signal, players dribble toward each other.
  1. High five -> change hands, cross over dribble.
  2. High collision ball next to the body, one player grabs the ball from the other. 2 times, rebound.
  3. Roll the ball simultaneously towards each other.
  4. After this, find a cone with tennis ball and move it onto a cone without tennis ball.
  • Starting lineup:
    • 1 player stands ready to shoot
    • 1 rebounder
  • Progression:
    • Set shots are taken at close range
    • Stretch arm with ball on hand, fold arm and turn hand and shoot
    • Shoot 10 times and then switch
  • Progression:
    • Standing further from the goal
    • Taking correct free throws
  • Regression:
    • AFTER
drawing Shooting basics
  • 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
drawing 1 vs. 1 with passer on a quarter court
  • 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
drawing 3-on-3 warm up half court
  • 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.
drawing Lay-up under goal
  • 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
  • Players divide along the length of the field, so they stand on a sideline.
  • They are going to perform this exercise in the width of the field.
  • In the middle of this field are scattered a number of pawns.
  • Everyone has a ball.
Exercise:
  • Players dribble to the pawns in the middle, there they hold the ball and pivot 5x.
  • Then they dribble on to the other side.
  • Once there, turn around and dribble with the ball as fast as possible to the starting point.
  • Then do it all over again.
drawing Pivot
  • Starting lineup:
    • All players have 1 ball.
    • All players stand inside the three-point line.
  • Progression:
    • Everyone is ticker with ball.
    • Tag ball away from other players.
    • Whoever loses ball is out.
  • Progression:
    • As the group gets smaller, make the circle smaller.
  • Regression:
    • AFTER
drawing Dribble knockout
  • 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