Basketball drills for technique condition

• 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!)

For U12 first explain well which lines are used.
Standard killer with line touching, executing with ball and different commands.

• Slowly build up speed as a warming up,
• Possibly let a player determine what the assignments are.
• Do take a rest now and then.

Tasks:

• Left to go, right back
• Left/right (cross)
• Backwards (2 times left, 2 times right)
• Put the ball down (under ball back, pick up ball back and next line)
• With press-ups (2x on the line), jumping, abs ect.

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

1. Player with ball, other player standing at a cone.
2. Player step-slides to other cone and receives pass, passes back and step-slide back to previous cone.
3. After 30" change

• free play on 1 or 2 baskets,
• depending on the number of players.
• NO dribbles only passing.

• Set up a course with running boards, bridges, hoops and cones and have the kids dribble down the course.
• You can make it as difficult as you like. The child who completes the course in the shortest time wins.

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  With 3 men on the back line and the middle one has the ball
• The middle passes to a man and runs after the ball
• The man in the middle passes to the man on the other side, who also runs after the ball.
• They do this while running to the basket on the other side.
• When someone is close enough to the basket, the man runs a lay-up.
• He becomes the defender and the other two attackers must try to reach each other with a long ball.
• The goal of the defender is to prevent the attackers from scoring.
• If the attackers do not manage to score, they must do 5 push-ups.

• Blue makes a board pass to the right of the hoop and sprints left around the pillon to the opposite side.
• White catches the ball in the air and makes a board pass, sprints right around the pillon and sprints toward the center line.
• Red catches the board pass, turns up the right side already in the air, makes an outlet pass to White and sprints across.
• White makes a long pass to blue and sprints across.
• Blue makes a layup and sprints across the right side to the other side.
• White sprints past the left pillon and sprints across again.
• Red grabs the rebound and makes another outlet pass to white.
• White passes to blue again.
• Blue makes a layup... etc, etc
  
  
• High tempo.
• Try to execute this drill without a dribble.
• Clearly call Outlet.
• How many times can you score without letting the ball touch the ground?