Basketball drills for technique dribbling
- Player 1 with ball Passes ball to Player 2 and
- Takes place of Player 2
- Player 2 dribbles towards cone a
- Player 3 runs towards cone a
- As soon as pass is possible Player 2 hands ball off to player 3
- Player 2 takes the place of player 3
- Player 3 dribbles toward cone b and passes to player 4 when possible
- Player 4 asks for the ball under the goal and finishes
- Player 3 takes the place of player 4
- Player 4 goes down the sideline to player 1's line past the hats with slalom dribble
Divide the group into 2 teams.
- Tell the story that it is autumn and the nuts are falling from the trees.
- We are a group of squirrels and we need to gather as many nuts as we can to survive the winter. The team with the most nuts wins.
- The coach scatters the nuts (can be ping pong balls, tennis balls or other small balls).
- On the coach's signal, all players may start collecting nuts all dribbling.
- They may bring one nut at a time to their nest.
- When all the nuts are collected, we count the nuts per team and the team with the most nuts wins.
- The chaos forces the little players to look around and not at the ball when they are dribbling.
Variation:
- dribbling with weak hand
Tag game - ideal as a warm-up for players U8 - U10
- 1 Ticker (the bird of prey)
- The others are little birds
- The little birds start on the sideline and must dribble over to the other sideline.
- They must not be tapped by the big bird of prey.
- If they are tapped, they become a fowler.
- At the spot where they are tapped, they put the ball between their feet and become additional, stationary tickers.
- The winner is the last player who is not tapped. This one can become the new bird of prey in the next game.
Variations:
- Dribbling with the weak hand only
- Predator with a ball
Dribbling exercise with overdribbling from sideline to sideline.
- Dribbling strength hand with ball at hip level. Note: hand above the ball, pushing on the ball (not hitting), all fingers touching the ball
- Dribble strong hand at knee level. Note: back straight! do not walk bent over but bend at the knees
- Dribble with strong hand to eye level. Note: hand remains above the ball, push well on the ball
- Roll ball to the opposite side. Note: under control, ball not too far from hand, touch ball with fingertips
Variation:
- same exercise but with weak hand
- Perform at a higher speed
- First Jumpstop, Fake and to the basket.
- Jumpstop, shot.
- Ball in the run and to the basket.
- Baseline dribble and finish with "wrong hand".
- 3-3 half court
- Cone setting
- Team that intercepts the ball first goes behind the cone before they are allowed to score.
- The player who has the ball may dribble for up to 5 seconds then they must have passed or shot. This only counts if they have been behind the cone.
- First cone, close-out
- Sliding to second cone
- Run around the last cone
- Grab ball
- Lay-up
- Full field
- Per 2 players
- All players a ball
- Players face each other on the end line
- In the middle are 5 cones with tennis ball on them and 5 cones without tennis ball.
At the Go signal, players dribble toward each other.
- High five -> change hands, cross over dribble.
- High collision ball next to the body, one player grabs the ball from the other. 2 times, rebound.
- Roll the ball simultaneously towards each other.
- After this, find a cone with tennis ball and move it onto a cone without tennis ball.
- The attacker is given very little space to maneuver past the defender
- The attacker is not allowed to look at the ball
- The attacker accelerates
- The defender starts working on his footwork
- Once past the hats, the field is wider and scoring is possible
- Always score
- Variation: the defender stands in the middle of the narrowed field and the attacker starts further back so you get a more game-like situation
- Four players stand in defensive position.
- Coach throws the ball against the board.
- Player 4 takes the rebound and passes the ball to player 2.
- Player 2 receiving the ball:
- Receives the ball and watches.
- Dribbles into the lane just off the center circle.
- Player 1 on the ball side:
- Sprints into the lane next to the sideline and looks over his inside shoulder to stay within passing range.
- Is first option in the start of the fastbreak.
- Player 3 on the non-ball side:
- Sprints down the lane next to the center circle and looks over inside shoulder to stay within passing range.
- Does not go through the center circle if he/she cannot go to score.
- Player 4 may go take the rebound.
- Players divide along the length of the field, so they stand on a sideline.
- They are going to perform this exercise in the width of the field.
- In the middle of this field are scattered a number of pawns.
- Everyone has a ball.
Exercise:
- Players dribble to the pawns in the middle, there they hold the ball and pivot 5x.
- Then they dribble on to the other side.
- Once there, turn around and dribble with the ball as fast as possible to the starting point.
- Then do it all over again.
- Starting lineup:
- All players have 1 ball.
- All players stand inside the three-point line.
- Progression:
- Everyone is ticker with ball.
- Tag ball away from other players.
- Whoever loses ball is out.
- Progression:
- As the group gets smaller, make the circle smaller.
- Regression:
- AFTER
