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Basketball drills for technique condition

  • Starting lineup:
    • Use the whole field
    • 2 players stand right on the center line ready to do lay-up
    • 2 players stand on the left center line ready to do lay-up
    • 3 players stand on the right sideline, level with the free throw line
    • 3 players stand on the left sideline, level with the free throw line
  • Progression:
    • Players at the center line start their lay-up
    • After the lay-up, they take their own rebound and give an outlet pass to the waiting player on the sideline
    • Then they join the sideline, at the level of the free throw line
    • Lay-up, bob cousy, power lay-up, lay-back, jump stop
  • Progression:
    • Change of direction at the level of the three-point line
    • Crossover, behind the back, reverse dribble at the center line
    • After lay-up stay on defense
  • Regression:
    • Taking shot instead of lay-up
drawing Lay-ups with outlet
  • Starting lineup:
    • Players are distributed to the 2 goals
    • 1 player stands ready to take a free throw
    • 1 player stands ready to take the rebound

  • Progression:
    • Each player makes 5 x 2 free throws
    • Each player counts for himself how many free throws he makes
    • After taking the free throw you take rebound
    • After taking the rebound you sprint from end line to end line
    • After sprinting you connect back in for the next 2 free throws

  • Progression:
    • Player sprints 1 more time to the center line and back

  • Regression:
    • Player sprints only to the center line and back
drawing Free throws
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drawing Lay-ups with outlet
  • Starting lineup:
    • Use a whole court
    • 2 players stand right on the center line ready to do lay-up
    • 2 players stand on the left center line ready to do lay-up
    • 3 players stand on the right sideline, level with the free throw line
    • 3 players stand to the left on the sideline, level with the free throw line
  • Progression:
    • Players at the center line start their lay-up
    • After the lay-up they take their own rebound and give an outlet pass to the waiting player on the sideline
    • Then they join the sideline, at the level of the free throw line
  • Progression:
    • Change of direction at the level of the three-point line
    • After the layup, stay on defense
  • Regression:
    • Taking shot instead of layup
drawing Lay-ups with outlet
  • Setup:
    • 2 men in defense
    • 3 groups baseline
  • Playing 3 against 2
  • Shotter returns to defense
drawing Transition drill, 3 vs. 2, 2 vs. 1
  • 2 attacking players with both a ball
  • Start simultaneously on the end line
  • Dribble around a cone on the center line
  • Then go through a gate of 2 cones at the level of the free-throw line to score first
  • Those who miss must go through the gate again
  • When they have scored, they pass the ball to the next teammate
  • The first team to score with all its players wins
drawing Narrow passage
  • Setup:
    • Whole field
    • 3 groups baseline one side
    • 3 groups baseline other side
    • Middle player has ball
    • Second man outside group also have ball
  • Middle player dribbles across
  • After center line pass to right, that player does a drive
  • Other players fill in
  • 3 cuts in total, then shot
  • 1 player still has the ball and shot
  • 2 other players get the ball from below
drawing Shooting drill
Setup:
Which team brings in most gold pieces/ pits?
  • 1 bank & one-against-all
  • 2-4 gangs of thieves
  • 1-2 guards.
Game consists of 4 rounds of play:

Game Round 1:
  • Thief - attacker: per post only 1 active & 1 gold piece at a time try to steal from bank.
  • Collect in own vault -hoop-.
  • Guard - defender- may only defend outside the bank.
  • If the thief is caught so tapped, he must leave the gold piece in the police station -under a cone.
  • Which team was able to steal most gold pieces?
Game Round 2:
  • Divide gold pieces equally among the thieves.
  • Thieves: safely move your gold pieces 1-for-1 to other safe -from one hoop to another.
  • Thief -attacker: walk around your cone without the guard catching you.
  • Agent -defender: in this case may only defend inside the bank.
  • If the thief is caught -attacked, he must leave the gold piece in the police station -under a cone.
  • Which team was able to transfer most gold pieces safely?

Game Round 3:
  • Thieves: for x time, steal as many gold pieces as possible from other safe.
  • Thief -attacker: mandatory back & forth through bank = watch for guard inside bank.
  • Guard may only defend inside bank.
  • If the thief is caught so tapped, he must leave the gold piece in the police station -under a cone.

Game round 4:
Same as game round 3, but with double guard 1 guard outside & 1 guard inside the bank.

Which team will have the most gold pieces in their possession after 4 rounds of play?

  • Setup:
    • 3 teams of 3 players
    • 3 players in the middle with ball
  • Attacking to one side
  • Defense to the center line, even after ball loss
  • No ball back
  • To score 7 times first
drawing 3 by 3 by 3
Everyone a ball and distribute along the length of the field.

Dribbleback and forth; jump stop, pivot across or keep dribbling.
  • Warmup: start slow, 50, 70, 100%.
Variations:
  • Dribble left back, right back.
  • 2x left, 2x right.
  • Roll ball across ground, make 8s.
  • Hold ball and jump with 2 legs.
  • The Crab.
  • Between the legs, high and low.
  • Tap lines along the way.

  • Along the way 5x push-ups, 10 abs, 30 second taps.
  • Low dribble; fast left/right.
  • High dribble with hop, backwards.
    • Behind the back, turn on axis.

  • Push/pull front to back.
  • Side to side; left to right.
  • Side to side with cross over.

Standing
Stationary: through the legs. Step out, dribble, step back. 8-step low dribble, behind your back,
  • 3x left, 3x crossover, 3 x right.
  • With 1 hand push from left to right.
  • Through steps . Dribble backwards through legs and forward again, staying in one line.
  • Dribble from high to low, sit and stand up again.
Behind your standing legs dribble.

Pawns
  • 2 pawns; crossover touch pylon with your hand - screen ball.
  • 2 pawns, eight around pylons - 1 hand.
  • Row of pylons - slalom.

On the bench move forward by jumping on the bench and then off with bench between legs and ball above head.
drawing Dribble with exercise on bench

2 baskets, spread out:

- left-hand lay-up

- Shooting from 5 positions (1x1, loser press-ups).

- Free running (head of the bucket ball, 2x2 free running to score, emphasis on defense)

- Reaction game (1 defender in the middle, 3 players with ball around the bucket, call out number)