Basketball drills

Line up at the free throw line and try to out-maneuver each other

• Dribbling with two balls
  • including three progressions
  • and one regression

• The player gets the ball thrown to you
• Do a crossover and shoot the ball at the first position
• Do the same at the second position
• And so on

• All children have a ball and a pawn
• Four benches are lined up one behind the other
• All children dribble and walk over the bench while carrying the pellet.

Variation: they now put the pylon on their head while dribbling. They walk next to the bench and dribble on the bench. You can make it more difficult by putting the pellet on the head and walking on the bench while dribbling on the ground.

This exercise is good because they have to dribble by feeling and cannot look at the ball, because then the pellet will fall.

• One person shoots free throws.
• Two other players stand behind the one who shoots the free throws. (According to the rules of the game)
• Once the ball is gone, the three players go for the rebound.
• If the person who threw the free throw has the ball, he can take another free throw.
• If he does not have the rebound, the three players are replaced by the next three.

1. 3 attackers have a ball + 1 defender lined up as in the picture on the right.

2. The defender starts tipping in the middle of the bucket.

3. The coach calls out the name of one of the attackers (or a number).

4. When the name is called, the defender sprints to the right attacker and follows one of three commands:

5. X1 dribbles via the baseline 2 to 3 dribbles. The defender takes a charge here.

6. X2 makes a shot fake, the defender makes a close out. Later expand to fake + dribble.

7. X3 dribbles from the baseline to the basket. The defender has to close out the baseline here.

• 4 pawns with ribbons stretched across them (1 ribbon per 2 pawns). Make sure the formation is not too high above the floor. Therefore use low pawns or spotlights.

1. The player starts next to the pawns.

2. The players jump from right to left over the ribbons in 'skating jumps', always putting their weight on the outside leg.

3. Make sure the players are sitting low and always land with only one leg and take off from this leg.

Player 1 has 2 balls and dribbles to the pawn with both balls.

Player 2 cuts from the corner to the wing.

Player 1 makes a 1 hand push pass to player 2 on the wing.

With the other ball player 1 makes a cross over and shoots the ball.

Player 2 makes a jump shot.

Goal:
train
split
the low post

Organisation:

• 5 stands extremely deep, near the bottom line
• as soon as 3 starts to dribble, 1 starts to screen for 5
• he crosses over to the block on the other side (picture 2)
• 1 fills the guard position (picture 2)
• as soon as 3 has matched the post (5), he cuts across to the ring
• at the same time, 1 sprints to the corner for the shot
  
  

5 has 3 options:

1) adjust 3 for the lay up2
) adjust 1 for the shot3
) play 1 against 1 himself against 6

Teaching points:

• timing: the pass to the center must come at the moment it arrives on the block
• at the split, leave enough space for the (bounce) pass.
• 1 sprints straight to the corner as soon as the pass is hit, so that defender 4 is hampered by cutting in 3 and his defender
  
  

Variations:

• in preparation run 3 against 0 and systematically go through the various options.
• left and right
• Cut below

• 2 rows on the center line and an outlet.
• Right side starts with ball and runs lay-up and left side catches it as high as possible.
• The catcher passes to the outlet and the outlet to the next man in the right row, etc.
• After a desired number of scores, do the same on the other side.

Row under the basket, 2 in the center circle and two on the out.

• Row passes to Out (and runs straight to the other basket)
• Out passes to center
• Center passes to the inbounds player.

The players practice with the overhead pass (with 2 hands, from above the head) and vary with 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.