Basketballexercises for u12

All players have one ball and are in a row. The front player indicates the pace and may dribble along the lines through the room 

• Trainer indicates if they should dribble left/right, trainer tries to take away ball 
• Forward/reverse if necessary 
• Don't look at the ball 

• Requirements
  • Be able to dribble and stop in 1 time when receiving a pass
• Aim
  • 1 time stop (jump stop), jump shot with attention to technique of the shot and finish against the board
• Organisation
  • 1 passer in position 2, 
  • players dribble zigzag up to midline and then dribble to 1 position 
  • pass to 2
  • cutting inside until next to the ring, 
  • Receive the pass of 2
  • jump stop and finish with jumpshot.
    • Changing = finisher becomes passer, passer takes rebound and connects to baseline. Next player departs when predecessor has finished.
• Teachingpoints
  • correct stop in 1 time, 
  • finish via shot from shooting-pocket to the board

• The players between the cones guard their terrain. 
• They must prevent the player with the ball from hitting their gate. 
• The player with the ball tries to dribble through the gate. 
• When he hits the other side, he may finish with a lay-up. 
• After the player is on the other side, everyone moves on. 

• Full field. 
• Divide the pilons over the square in 5 equal parts. 
• Players all start on one line. 
• Coach names the pilons from 1 to 5. 
• Players stand or sit ready on 1 line and run on command to the line the coach appoints. 
• This can be done on foot, with slides or dribble. 
• On the designated line the player has to stand still, sit or lie down flat on the belly. 
• When dribbling, the ball must be held in place. 
• Attention should be paid to shielding the ball when standing still.

• Set up players: 
  • 1 with ball on the head (pos 1/white), 
  • 1 in position 2 or 3 (blue), 
  • The rest on 4 or 5 (same side as the forward, red). 
  • A defender or pilon somewhere around the free throw line or closer to 1 (is the defender of 1)
• White passes to blue and immediately makes a cutting movement. 
  • Feint to the left and cut across the defender
• Blue passes the ball to white in its movement and takes position 1. 
  • First of red fills in the position of blue.
• White scores with the ball and the ball goes back to the new player in position 1. 
  • White follows red and becomes the last player in the red row.
• The exercise starts again.

• All players shoot from multiple positions. 
• Can be a game with players at other basket. 
• For example: 10 points from each position. 
• Scoring of the position under the board also using the board. 
• Catch your own ball or give a good pass to the next in line. 
• Make sure you are ready to score as a shooter. 
• Use only 1 ball per basket

Requirements:

Players must be able to perform a layout from a bounce pass

Aim:

Learn how to create forward scoring opportunities for yourself

Organization:

4 players / quarter field, other players wait in center circle. Move over: offence becomes defence, defence goes out + new offence

The helpline is out: you can play with two groups of four on a basket and force the players not to use the space where the help is in the game.

(first perform the exercise several times without defense)

• guard dribbles up from the center circle
• at the same time, 2 makes a V-cut
• if 2 gets free, pass and 1 v 1
• if defender overshoots 4, then continue the V-cut to at least a meter
• above the three-point line and sprint backwards for the backdoor pass 
• and play 1 v 1
• All score out of:
  • backdoor
  • 1 v 1 from the wing

Mtm offense

• If you don't manage to pass to 2, 2 will sprint to the centre circle and get the pass of 1. 
• The cycle then starts again from the front, but now with 1 at the forward position.

Teaching Points:

• if you can see your defender's shoulder in the pass line at the V-cut, then there is overplay.
• and you have to take the defender up to at least a metre above the three-point line towards the sideline
• sprint at full speed as you go backdoor
• the backdoor pass is mostly one-handed, from the dribble with a flat bounce

• Two rows on the side at the height of the center line. 
• Ball is on one side, attacker decides when he leaves and runs to the middle line, which he must cross all the way. 
• The defender also departs but only has to touch the centre circle. 
• Aim of the exercise is to come in front of the attacker as a defender. 
• When a goal is made, 3 push-ups for the defender, a miss is 3 push-ups for the attacker.

Start with 1 ball, later on you can use two balls.

• 4 rows in 4 corners
• 1 ball in opposite corner
• pass to the man on the right, run straight ahead
• pass to the running man, and run straight ahead
• running man passes straight ahead, connecting behind the second row.

• Call out the name of the person you're passing to.
• after 5 minutes, switch sides and pass left

• Walk fast in pairs, from baseline to baseline on the right side of the field, 
• meanwhile chest-pass back and forth, 
• spacing approx. 3 meters. 
• Return on the left, but with bounce pass

• With 3 men on the back line and the middle one has a ball.
• The middle one passes to a man and chases the ball.
• The receiver keeps the ball behind him and the one who passed first takes the ball and passes on.
• The person who has the ball behind his back runs behind the ball, picks it up at the receiver and passes on to the other side.
• They do this while running to the basket on the other side.
• If someone is close enough to the basket, the man plays a lay-up.
• Make variations on the passing lines

• Consider the pilons as the defense (players can also be used for this). 
• Player 1 (white runs) towards player blue. 
• Halfway through the run, player blue runs behind his defender and asks for the ball. 
• Player white passes to blue. 
• As soon as player blue catches the ball, player red sprints away behind his defender. 
• As soon as player red catches the ball player 2 sprints away from white behind his defender. 
• The makes the circle go round. This is an active exercise in which timing, passing and catching are a crucial part. 
• Because everyone is busy, this is also conditionally a good drill. 
• With younger players the distance between pilons is shorter.