Basketball drills

• free play on 1 or 2 baskets, depending on the number of players.
• PURPOSE: Quick passing, cutting, helpside, ballside, boxing-out.
• First team at 5.
• Loser push-ups 6.

• Target: Focus on ritual.
• Tired end of match.
• Breathing easy/Ritual.
• 2x2 free throws p.p. 2 baskets.
• 4 push-up shooter.
• Then shoot.
• While 1 player 4 push-up, this will be next shooter.
• Rest of team rebounds. Etc, etc.

• Depending on the number of balls.
• Pairs or alone.
• In singles.
  • Start at your position, dribble to opposite side of basket.
  • Set or jump shot from your position (guard, forward, center).
  • Up to 8 hits.
• In pairs.
  • Start from position, pass to opposite basket.
  • Last pass must be good so that shooter in jumpshot is ready for his/her shot.
  • Up to 4 touches per player!!!!!
  • Losers, 1x back and forth slides in width.8 hoops/pawns for shooting positions.

• Circle the ball alternately around: hips, thighs, knees, calves, ankles, chest, head.
• Foot Stride; circle the ball first around the different parts of the front leg, then the back leg.
• Spreading stance; same as previous exercise.
• As previous exercise. After each circle alternate with the other leg.
• Eight circle.

• Alternate between squatting and standing while dribbling.
• Dribble while sitting down and standing up again.
• Dribble while lying on your back; stand up while dribbling at the signal.
• Dribble while lying down and standing up again.

• Everyone has a ball stands on the sideline.
• Exercises are alternated with
  • crossover,
  • between the legs
  • etc.

• Divide the group into two teams.
• From both teams 2 children stand on the mats belonging to their team.
• Also 2 children per team stand in front of the cupboard, these are the goalkeepers.
• The children who stay over, go to the throwing square (see drawing).
• When the balls come into play, the children in the box are supposed to throw the balls against the cupboard.

• The teacher divides the room into two squares by placing benches on the centerline of the room.
• Then the teacher makes 2 squares with pawns to catch up the right of attack.
• During this game the rulebook is used.
• See module basketball for this guide.
• The teacher divides the students into teams of 3, possibly with a substitute.
• See the tables at the bottom of the lesson preparation for the game schedules.
• The intention is that the team that has the ball (on the map team 2 & 3) try to score.
• To be able to score, the team must first get the right of attack.
• They get this right of attack when they arrive with the ball in the area of the pawns.
• From now on the team may score.
• They do this by shooting the ball into the basket.
• The other team must try to take the ball away from them.
• When this happens, the teams swap roles and the new team with the ball has to get the right of attack and try to score.

Prerequisites:
players must master the layup at full speed

Goal:
react
quickly
on a stray ball and be able to finish the next 1 against 1

Organization:

• the trainer stands in the middle of the bucket and has the ball
• Two players on the elbow are only allowed to look straight ahead.
• trainer passes between the players
• they may only move when they see the ball
• the player who captures the ball scores on the opposite basket
• the other player tries to prevent this
• the coach makes his passes so hard that the players have to sprint to keep the ball in.
• n.b. the defender must not make any mistakes due to the risk of injuries
  
  

Teaching points:

• speed of action
• do not let the defender distract you
  
  

Variations:

• have players start sitting or lying down
• Put two players next to each other on the elbow, or with their backs against each other. Then play 2 against 2
• machine gun at players' elbows

• We're gonna dribble!
• Dribble the ball from left to right.
• With feints in between. High. Low. Fast and slow.
• Look closely at the options you have.

• The planet Saturn is the planet with the rings.
• So can you guess how the Saturn exercise goes?
• Spin the ball around your left leg, your right leg and around both legs.
• There is no dribbling involved, but this exercise is very good for your hand-eye coordination.

• There are rows of players on both sidelines.
• The front player of each row has a basketball.
• These players dribble to the sideline on the other side and play the ball with a bounce pass to the second player in the row who is now automatically in front.
• The first player closes in behind and the second player now dribbles across.
• The players practise the overhead pass (with 2 hands, from above the head) and vary the distance
• Players stand in a circle with 1 player in the middle.
• One player starts and throws the ball with a chest pass to the player in the middle.
• Then the first player runs after the ball to the middle.
• The player in the middle throws the ball to the next player in the circle and then runs after them etc.
• The players stand in a circle and pass the ball to each other.
• They are free to choose who they throw to and which pass variant they use.
• To make the exercise more difficult more basketballs can be used.