Basketball drills for technique shooting
- 3 Rows on the baseline.
- The middle player has the ball and starts the weave with the 2 outer players.
- On the other baseline are 2 players with a ball.
- The middle man makes a lay up and the outside players get the ball from the players on the baseline and take a shot.
- The player who ran the lay up runs the weave back with them.
- Two teams, each at a spot.
- If you score, you get to take a pot.
- The team with the most pots at the end is the winner.
- Starting lineup:
- 1 player stands ready to shoot
- 1 rebounder
- Progression:
- Set shots are taken at close range
- Stretch arm with ball on hand, fold arm and turn hand and shoot
- Shoot 10 times and then switch
- Progression:
- Standing further from the goal
- Taking correct free throws
- Regression:
- AFTER
This is a high tempo drill:
- One shooter to the left and one shooter to the right of the Bucket
- The rest of the players stand under the board with a ball
- White passes to the trainer -triangle red
- The trainer passes left or right to one of the shooters
- White provides a good Close Out, going high towards the shooter with 2 arms and contesting the shooter
- The archer tries to hit under pressure
- After 1 minute switch shooters
- Variation: different shooting positions
- Blue sprints to the center circle
- Slides to corner
- Sprint to center line
- Slides across center line
- Blue grabs a ball from one of the 2 hoops and makes a lay up
- Sprint to corner
- Tipping ball overhead on fingers and putting ball back into one of the hoops
- Sprint to baseline -starting position-
- Variation: With jumpshot; 15 hit
Weave with 3 players
- Player 1 finishes
- Player 2 and 3 receive a pass on the side of the court and take a shot with their own rebound.
- They try to make 100 scores within the 1.30 min
Option 1
- Blue runs to the middle and receives the pass from orange
- Orange then fills in blue
- White and Red come up at the same time that orange passes to blue
- White receives the pass from blue at the free throw line and faces the basket
- Red accelerates somewhere near the free throw line and heads for the basket
- White passes to red and red makes a layup
Option 2
- After orange passes to blue, orange also cuts across the right side and there is a second playoff opportunity for white.
Option 3
- Orange and blue continue to cut in and white takes a shot
- Orange and blue fight for the rebound and a score
* After building this exercise up to Option 3, players must be sharp, there can always be a pass or fight for the rebound.
* There is no dribbling
* Rotation is counterclockwise
* There is no dribbling
* Rotation is counterclockwise
Shooting game where they get to take a card when they have scored. Each playing card shows a "color," clubs, spades, hearts or diamonds. Each color represents a fitness exercise.
Hearts: Push-ups, Spades: Squat, Clubs: Burpee, Diamonds: Lunges.
Once they have picked a card, they must first perform the corresponding exercise, they do this the number the card indicates. For example, Hearts 4 = 4 push-ups. Then they may continue shooting again. Group with the most cards, has won.
Shooting game where they get to take a card when they have scored. Each playing card shows a "color," clubs, spades, hearts or diamonds. Each color represents a fitness exercise.
Hearts: Push-ups, Spades: Squat, Clubs: Burpee, Diamonds: Lunges.
Once they have picked a card, they must first perform the corresponding exercise, they do this the number the card indicates. For example, Hearts 4 = 4 push-ups. Then they may continue shooting again. Group with the most cards, has won.
- In threesomes shooters
- Starting lineup:
- Per 2 form a team
- 5 positions around the bucket
- Each duo starts at a different position
- Maximum of 3 teams per goal
- Progression:
- Players each take turns taking a shot
- Players take their own rebound
- After 5 scores, move to the next position
- Shift clockwise
- Team that scores first at all positions 5 times wins
- Progression:
- Take shots from slightly farther away
- Walk out to sideline or end line
- Regression:
- Taking shots from slightly closer
- 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
- Player sprints 1 more time to the center line and back
- Regression:
- Player sprints only to the center line and back
