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Welcome to the basketball section of Yoursportplanner. As an enthusiastic coach and passionate basketball trainer, you will find here the ultimate resource for training exercises, tactical insights and tools to create effective workouts. Whether you work with youth or adults, beginners or experienced players, Yoursportplanner provides you with all the information and tools you need to achieve your goals in the sport you love so much. Proper training, practice, dedication and fun are the key to success. Right now we offer 966 basketball drills and there are 50 basketball workouts created by basketball coaches. Do not hesitate and proceed quickly to put together your basketball workouts and improve the performance of your basketball team.

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  • 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
  • Sprint around the pawns, always via the middle pawn.

  • there is 1 ticker and the rest have to try to grab the stretcher and eventually the tennis ball along 2 sides of the square if the ticker ticks you you have to put the stretcher back and try again
    - you can also make it increasingly difficult or easier
    e.g.: the one who is tapped out of game or make bigger square
  • 3 cones in front of each other
    per two or 3
    each time the ball further and further on the hoop and every time the ball is on the cone one has to go behind and give it back to the other player so that the one player can put the ball it further
  • 1) the player jumps over the fence and then jumps from where she stands with 1 leg into the hoop and back for the next fence
    so on until the end
    2) you jump sideways over the fence and then jump with 1 leg into the 2 hoops, are you at the outer hoop you jump over the hoop back next to the fence.
    3) you jump over one fence sideways and back with 1 big step you jump to the other fence and jump back over it and back and then sprint to the little pawn.
    then over the ladder.
    • Four players stand in defensive position.
    • Coach throws the ball against the board.
    • Player 4 takes the rebound and passes the ball to player 2.
    • Player 2 receiving the ball:
      • Receives the ball and watches.
      • Dribbles into the lane just off the center circle.
    • Player 1 on the ball side:
      • Sprints into the lane next to the sideline and looks over his inside shoulder to stay within passing range.
      • Is first option in the start of the fastbreak.
    • Player 3 on the non-ball side:
      • Sprints down the lane next to the center circle and looks over inside shoulder to stay within passing range.
      • Does not go through the center circle if he/she cannot go to score.
    • Player 4 may go take the rebound.
    drawing Attack exercise

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