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Basketball drills for technique dribbling

  • Tag without ball on the center line.
  • If tapped, you must stand still -ball on ground- as jammer.
  • From baseline to baseline, ticker may not go beyond head bucket.
  • Last one remaining wins.
  • 3 teams of 3 players
  • 3 players in the middle
  • Attacking
  • Defense up to the center line, even after ball loss
drawing 3 by 3 by 3
  • Half players baseline.
  • Half players half court.
  1. Player baseline throws against board and takes rebound.
  2. Chin the ball.
  3. Turn and dribble toward middle line.
  4. Outlet pass to player middle line.
  5. Player middle line goes for a layup.
  6. Dribbling return to baseline.
  7. Now with defender other side of field.
drawing Outlet drill
  • 2 groups
  • At the level of the free throw line

  • First a v-cut, then get ball
  • Pivoting and shooting
  • Own rebound
  • Connecting on the other side
Notice:
  • With pivot on right foot
  • Passing with right or left hand, depending on side
  • 20 scores

  • Pivot and dribble to goal, lay-up
  • Straight to goal driven
  • Pivot and dribble to goal, jump stop
drawing V-cut shooting
This exercise sounds simple but it certainly is not:
  • The idea is for the player with the ball to get past a 100% giving defender in 3 dribbles.
  • The scoring player stays put, misses then goes out and the defender may attack against a new person.
  • The goal is for the player to give everything during this exercise.
  • Here the attacker is forced to be explosive and use his whole body.
drawing Three step king of court
  • 2-3 players catch the ball.
  • The other players line up around the 3 point line.
  • 2 balls.
  1. Players run regular layups.
  2. Coach stands under the basket and each time a player arrives, raises a specific number of fingers.
  3. The players must then get that number right.
  4. This teaches them not to look at the ball.
drawing Lay ups - looking away from ground
Small room with 4 baskets:
  • Run laps with lay-ups over all baskets.
  • After whistle press up, tap, plank, jump with ball held in hands.
  • After the whistle turn around and left.
  • After the whistle accelerate.
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 players at bottom of goal.
  • 2 players left extended free throw line.
  • 2 players right extended free throw line.
  • 2 players at the center circle.
  • Team 1 players top and bottom.
  • Team 2 players left and right.
  • Team 1 starts dribbling toward each other does a change of direction and accelerates.
    Variations: crossover, between the leggs, behind the back, double action, back up dribble.
  • When team 1 has done the change of direction team 2 may leave.
drawing Dribble exercise

5 lines on the back line, trainer has the ball.

- 2 rows are defenders, rest is attack

- Everyone has to touch the middle line and then attack or defend

- Trainer throws ball in the field or in the circle

  • Everyone has a ball.
  • Everyone starts dribbling in a certain box. 
  • If your ball is tapped away, you have to fetch it and score on the other basket.
  • When you have scored, you may return to the box.
drawing Ticking away in a square