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Basketball drills for technique shooting

  • 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.
drawing shots
  • 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
drawing Shooting basics
  • 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
drawing Step slide lay up drill
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
drawing USA drill
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

drawing 4 Corners drill without a dribble
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
drawing Shooting drill
  • 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
drawing Paired shooting
  • 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
  • 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:
  • 1 group baseline corner
  • 1 group left wing
  • 1 group right wing
  • Ball right wing
Exercise:
  • Player comes in and passes coach.
  • Chooses baseline or middle.
  • Based on this, the other 2 groups rotate.
  • Always do an extra pass!
  • Finish of choice.
drawing Close out