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Basketball drills for technique shooting

  • Goal:
    • Get shooter free shot wing.
  • 3 rows. Guard 1 with ball.
  • 2 and 3 wing.
  • Wing 2 sets low screen perimeter bucket. (Later double with center)
  • Wing 3 cuts through bucket past screen.
  • Set screen so Wing 3 can cut to wing, free shot.
  • If defender cheats, touch Wing 2.
  • Wing 2 goes up, 3 go's back to orig. position.
  • Always roll after screen.
    • 1 go's to 2,
    • 2 go's to 3.
    • 3 go's to 2
  • Goal:
    • Post up the pivot.
    • Feed the pivot. 2 on 2.
  • Use all means, backscreen, pick-and-roll. Boxing-out.
  • (Needed for 3out-2 in system)
  • 1 ball per side. (2 shots allowed when rebounded)
  • Score, offense stays offense.

pass-and-shoot

pass-and-shoot

  • Position 2 or 3 out.
  • Feed the post.
  • Player move after the pass left or right.
  • Get ball back from post, shoot. (Max one dribble)
  • 2 baskets. 5x2 Free throws. 6 must be in.
  • Rest team around bucket must destract shooter. No touching and not in front off player.
  • Less than 6 is 20- sit-ups.
  • free play on 1 or 2 baskets, depending on the number of players.
  • PURPOSE: Quick passing, cutting, helpside, ballside, boxing-out.
  • First team at 5.
  • Loser push-ups 6.
  • Target: Focus on ritual.
  • Tired end of match.
  • Breathing easy/Ritual.
  • 2x2 free throws p.p. 2 baskets.
  • 4 push-up shooter.
  • Then shoot.
  • While 1 player 4 push-up, this will be next shooter.
  • Rest of team rebounds. Etc, etc.
  • Depending on the number of balls.
  • Pairs or alone.
  • In singles.
    • Start at your position, dribble to opposite side of basket.
    • Set or jump shot from your position (guard, forward, center).
    • Up to 8 hits.
  • In pairs.
    • Start from position, pass to opposite basket.
    • Last pass must be good so that shooter in jumpshot is ready for his/her shot.
    • Up to 4 touches per player!!!!!
    • Losers, 1x back and forth slides in width.8 hoops/pawns for shooting positions.
  • The players stand around the bucket or on the free throw line and try to score in the basket.
  • Vary their position and distance.
  • Players dribble from the center line to the free throw line and try to score from there within 5 seconds.

Competition form.

  • 2 groups against each other.
  • You have to make 15 good lay-ups with your group.
  • If you succeed, you sit down and you've won.
  • As an extension of this, in two minutes you have to make as many lay-ups as possible with your group.
  • At least 3 balls per group so you don't have to wait for the ball.
  • The lay-up must at least have a two step rhythm otherwise it does not count.
  • Approximately 4 to 5 minutes.


2-steps-lay-up

  • We are going to work on two baskets and therefore also in 2 groups.
  • (How many groups you make depends on the number of baskets. More baskets means more groups).
  • Half of a group stands approximately on the center line on the right side of the basket.
  • The other half starts on the left side just beside the basket.
  • These persons have the ball and throw the ball to the person on the center line.
  • This person dribbles the ball to the basket, makes a lay-up, catches the ball and joins the line next to the basket.


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This drill will help develop proper passing and shooting techniques. This drill also emphasizes communication between teammates
  1. Divide the team into four squads. One team on each block and one team on each elbow. Give each team one ball.
  2. The first person in each line shoots and follows his shot, passing it back to the next person in his line.
  3. After rebounding the ball, the shooter returns the ball to the line they were in and rotates clockwise to the end of the next spot. Rotations are shown in the diagram.
  4. All four lines work as a team and keep track of the total number of shots scored.


  • Emphasize to the players that communication is very important in this drill.
  • Players must make game-winning passes and their shots must also be taken at game level.
  • The time limit of this exercise can be changed from five minutes to whatever you like or number of shots scored
  • Also the spots on the court where the players shoot from can be varied

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