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Basketball drills for

  • 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
  • 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!


drawing Offensive transition with 5
  • 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.
drawing Fill the spot

give & go and lay-back combined

drawing Warming up

Prerequisites:

  • Some game insight at fill the spot, be able to apply defensive stance (denail - helpside)

Goal:

  • offence: quickly see where there is an empty spot and cut through after a pass, defence: adjust stance according to how the ball is moving

Organization

  • 4 players (U10) on a spot with defence, empty spot under the ring.
  • Offence: pass the ball around and make a quick cutting move towards the empty spot below the ring, other attackers move up and the empty spot is filled in by the cutting attacker.
  • Defence: adjust position according to the ball. (hands on the ball, denail, weakside help on the line ring-ring)
  • 5 passes (calmly), then 4vs4
  • Passing on: offence becomes defence, defence steps out and then becomes offence
  • Possibly start with passive defence (hands on back) depending on players' level.


teaching points

  • Offence: good pass - in/out to deep bucket and high stepping out - placement of feet - attention to mistakes.
  • Defence: anticipate the ball - check correct posture per spot before passing - jump-to-the-ball


drawing Filling spots and defending


Three teams line up one ball on the back line.

  • Coach throws ball against the board (if he scores take it)
  • Middle player picks up rebound and chooses an outlet side
  • Outlet at speed to head of the bucket on the other side, matching player cuts behind the outlet.
  • Fill three lanes, possibly add defenders to make it harder (pick up two players from the center line, or rebound more first)

Start under basket, 2 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 has to get in front of the man and defend.

drawing Speed outbreak
  • Players stand in two lines at the height of the free throw line.
  • Everyone has a ball except the first person of one of the lines.
  • The player without the ball enters the free throw line and receives the pass -> pivot -> crossover/open-step -> lay-up/shot
  • The player takes his own rebound and joins the other row.
drawing cross dribble - lay-up & shot (on free throw line)

Assume the correct position after intake, rebound or score

drawing 5 out (part 1)
  • 4 things you can do after passing:
    • Ball-screen.
    • Screen away.
    • Cut to the basket (example: give and go, or back-cut). Back cut if the defender is denying the pass.
    • V-cut and pop back outside for the return pass and outside shot.
  • Rules without the ball:
    • If you have an under-play (defender sagging off), pop out to spread the defense.
    • If you have an overplay (being denied), backcut.
    • Someone dribbling at you, backcut (except for the weave plays).
    • Fill the open spot when a teammate cuts inside.
    • When someone dribble-penetrates, relocate.
    • Screen away, and pop out.
    • The most important rule is to keep moving.


  • 5 men start at the center line.
  • 1 makes lay up becomes defence
  • 2 taps the cone and also defends
  • 3 rebounds and throws in
  • 4-5 hit baseline and ask to play ball for 3-2
  • baseline start.
  • 1 man dribble attack
  • 1 man footwork defense
  • from the halfway line 1-1