Basketball drills

• Everyone a ball
  • Outward zigzag dribble around cones
  • Midline backline sprint/dribble
  • Side/slides over the back line
  • Back various commands (Crabwalk, backwards dribble, between the legs)
  • 5x push-ups, abs on midline
  • Finish with lay-up or shot from the hoop
• Start slowly as a warming-up
• Then faster and faster (keep distance)
• Coach lining up on the way back to give different assignments

• 2 teams
• Each team an own basket
• 1 or 2 balls (depending on team size)
• 1 shooter
• Rest of the team is rebounder/passer
• Shooter runs lay-ups from the head
• Alternating left/right: 7 lay-ups hit
• Shooter shoots alternately left/right from the bottom of the bucket
• Then walks to the other side and back again: 5 hits
• Shooter shoots free throw
• Then sprints to the midline and back: 3 hits
• Winner scores point for team
• Team with fewest points runs suicide

• Two or three teams
• Per pair or trio 1 ball
• 1 shooter,
• 1 o(f 2) rebounder(s)
  • Shooter shoots (from the free throw line, or lower position)
  • Sprinting to the halfway line
  • Rebounder catches ball
  • Passes ball to shooter (good jump stop, correct distance, call for ball)
  • Shooter total of 5 scores, then new shooter
• Team of which first all shooters have scored 5 times, wins!

• Taps
  • All players on the baseline
  • 30 sec taps
  • Sprint to the middle line
  • 30 sec taps
  • Sprint to backline
  • 30 sec taps
• Slides
  • All players on the baseline
  • In slide position and face to the left (or right)
  • Slides to the other side
  • Until trainer calls GO
  • At GO sprint back to the baseline and make slides to other side
  • Until other baseline
• Squads
  • All players on back line
  • Facing the middle of the field
  • 10x single squad
  • 10x halfway and through squad
  • 5 times stay deep and only come back up after 5 seconds (slowly!)
• Lunges
  • Lunge walk to the other side of the hall (slowly!)

Two rows on the center line, 1 player in the corner on the baseline (the passer).

Starting with right layups:

• Ball is with the proposal player in the right row
• First player in left row runs to the front
• Player with ball passes ball to player in left row
• Player in left row makes a jump stop
• Player in right row touches sideline at free throw line and makes a cut to the basket
• Player with ball passes to other player at right moment (other player asks for ball)
• Player in right group makes lay-up.
• Player in left row catches ball and passes to player in corner (no ball on the ground!)
• Player in the corner passes ball to next player in line
• Catcher becomes player in the corner

• Each player takes 7 free throws
• The number of free throws missed you have to sprint back and forth
• Then you take the number of shots you missed the first time
• The number of free throws that are missed you have to sprint back and forth
• Repeat until you have scored 7 times

• Explaining basic 5 out attack
• Dry practice (without ball)
• With ball dry practise and pass
• With ball and if trainer says yes, adjust cutting player and lay-up

All players a ball in a circle around the coach

• Successively:
  • Right: normal dribble, through the knees, defend the ball
  • Right: normal dribble, look at the trainer, not at the ball
  • Left: normal dribble, through the knees, defend the ball
  • Left: normal dribble, look at the trainer, not at the ball
• Right/left alternate:
  • High hard dribble
  • Very low dribble
  • Sit on the buttocks low dribble
  • Lying down low dribble
  • Left/Right dribble with 1 hand
  • Dribble Front/Back 1 hand
  • Dribble through the legs
  • Machine gun
• 2 rows on the baseline, relay:
  • Quickly dribble with the right and back
  • Dribble with the left and back again
  • Backward dribble with right
  • Backward dribble with the left

• Important - warm up means - build intensity - be in motion.
• Coach in the middle
  • Groups start with the ball under goal
  • First no ball
  • Move to the other side
  • Coach goes a little further each time until three point line
  • LU left and right every time
  • At some point shot
• Dynamic stretching by cap
• Shooting
  • sideline 2 rows
  • 4 balls
• on 2 sides
  • 1 against 1 first dribble upwards with defense
  • 1 against 1 to the ring
• 3 against 2
  • 2 defense in bucket with 1 ball
  • 3 men on baseline
  • Pass from defense to side man
  • Attack
  • React

• Offensive Transition
  • Guard on his ball
  • Forward ball side
  • High - forward not ball side
  • Short corner
  • Non rebounder comes through the middle cut and replaces forward on non ball side
  • Rebounder stops at the top
• Transition into play one!

• Group on top with ball
  • Other 2 groups on forward
  • Top passes
  • Forwards shot
• Variations
  • Ball on top drived to goal Forward follows to the baseline
  • Pass and shot.

• 5 spots
• 1 player / spot
  • Position 1 passes to position 2,
  • fakes and cuts through to the basket.
  • Meanwhile, position 3 takes the spot of position 1 and position 5 takes the spot of position 3.
  • Cutting player takes up position 5 (= vacant spot).
  • Perform this automatism 5 passes and then score via lay-up or jump-shot.