Basketball drills for
- Everyone a ball and distribute along the length of the field.
- Dribble back and forth (jump stop, pivot across, or keep dribbling)
- Variations:
- Dribble left back, right back.
- Tap lines along the way.
- On the way 5x push ups, 10 abs, 30 sec taps.
- Low dribble (fast left/right), high dribble with hop, backwards.
- Between legs, behind the back, turn on axis.
- Stationary:
- Through legs (step out, dribble, step back), 8-step low dribble.
- Depends on the number of balls.
- In pairs or alone
- When alone:
- Start at your position, dribble across the basket.
- Set or Jumpshot from your position (Guard, forward, center).
- Up to 8 points.
- In pairs:
- Start at your position, pass to the opposite side of the basket.
- Last pass should be good so that shooter in jumpshot is ready for his/her shot.
- Up to 4 points per player.
- Losers: Slides over the width of the pitch, 1x back and forth.
- Start under the basket.
- Two players pass back and forth in the run to center line....
- At passage center line in man with ball the attacker and goes full dribble to basket.
- Other player is defender and must get in front of man security and defend.
Everyone has a ball.
- Slalom around pylons, possibly with touching.
- Dribble with bench. Both sides a foot.
- Back line slides with ball overhead.
- Dribble to center line and push up.
- Layup.
Repeat 3 times.
2 players start on baseline.
- They sprint to elbow and backwards again to baseline,
- From there SLIDES to corner baseline and then a sprint to the sideline other side.
- Two three or four-team teams. (teams)
- Per team 2 balls.
- 1 shooter, 2 (or 3) rebounder(s).
- Shooter shoots (from free throw line, or lower position), then sprints to center line.
- Rebounder catches ball, passes ball to shooter. (proper jump stop, proper distance, call for ball)
- Shooter total 10 scores, then new shooter.
- Team whose first to have all shooters score 5 times wins!
- Loser runs a suicide.
- Tapping
- All players on the baseline.
- 30 sec tapping, sprint to center line, 30 sec tapping, sprint to back line, 30 sec tapping.
- Slides
- All players on the baseline, in slide position and facing left. (or right)
- Slides to the opposite side, until trainer calls GO.
- At GO sprint back to baseline and make other side slides.
- Up to other baseline.
- Squads
- All players on back line, facing center of field.
- 10x single squad.
- 10x halfway and through squad.
- 5x stay deep and only go back up after 5 seconds. (slowly!)
- Lunges
- Lunge walk to the other side of the room. (slow down!)
- Players at the baseline have the ball.
- He passes the ball to the blue player and walks towards the other baseline.
- He gets the ball back and passes it to the red player.
- He gets the ball back and passes the ball to the orange player.
- He gets the ball back and dribbles to the basket and finishes with lay up.
- When the blue player has passed the ball he runs to the spot of the red player.
- The red player to the orange player and the orange player takes the rebound and starts the exercise on the other side.
- Variations in finishing and eventually close out and live defence possible.
- 2 rows on the baseline.
- Front player of one row without ball.
- Player without ball walks around the pylon, receives pass from front player of other row and makes lay-up/shot.
- Catch the ball from the back of the pylon.
- Player who passed the ball goes around the pylon and gets the ball.
- Adjustments:
- Move the pylon further and further away.
- 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!)
Triplets with a ball.
- Trainer throws ball against the board, team must rebound and choose outlet.
- Trainer blocks off one side so they have to pick and ask for the ball!
- Outlet dribbles to the middle and 3X0 completes with a layup (pace.)
- Depending on the level of the U12 explain: outlet, ask for the ball (hands), fill in lines and run attack.
- Trainer can be disruptive at the 2x1, pay attention to left and right handed dribbling.
- 1 man attack - 1 man defend
- 3 to 5 gates, centre gate 4 points, inner gates 2 points, outer gate 1 point, failed 0 points
- 2 x 3 attempts, most points wins