Basketballexercises for u19
Prerequisites:
- Players should have a reasonable grasp of the basic technique of dribbling.
Objective:
practice speed change and change of direction with the ball between the legs
Organization:
- players dribble zigzagging between two lines along the length of the field
- when they reach a longitudinal line with their foot, they make a dribble between the legs, changing direction and accelerating
- when the first dribbler is at the extended free throw line, the next one starts
Teaching points:
- look over the ball and survey the court in front of you
- stop with a jump in 2 TR
- Leg on the side of the ball is behind
- Hand over the ball
- dribble backwards between the legs and low
- with a crossover step in the other direction
Variations:
use dribbling goggles
Requirements:
- Players must be able to dribble away diagonally with one hand on the side of the ball
Preparatory exercise:
- two players stand next to the free throw line, both feet pointing to the back line.Pass to each other with a bounce pass behind the back
Objective:
To practice speed change and direction change with the ball behind the body, while keeping the dribbler's field of vision focused on the part of the field in front of him
Organisation:
- players dribble zigzagging between two lines along the length of the field
- when their foot reaches a longitudinal line, they make a behind-the-back dribble
- change direction and accelerate
- when the first dribbler is at the extended free throw line, the next one starts
- Teaching points:
- look over the ball and survey the court in front of you
- Leg on the side of the ball is in front
- hand over the ball
- Pass the ball with a quick movement behind your back
- Pull the hand with the ball through so far that the wrist touches the hip on the other side The ball then hits the ground well in front of the body, matching the speed at which the dribbler is moving, so that it bounces exactly into the other hand.
- direction change is often less than 90 degrees
Variations:Â-
- Start left and right
Prerequisites:
- players must already have good dribbling skills
Objective:
Using penetration to play the defender out of position and create a jump shot and use backup dribble to create space if that fails
Organisation:
- the four positions are always one metre outside the three-point line.
- always penetrate with the right hand on the right side of the helpline, on the left with the left hand.
- player 1 dribbles in hard with his right hand
- Switches hands under the buttocks at the bucket's edge
- and goes with a backup dribble with the left hand to the next position
- passes under the buttocks and with right again dribbles in hard
- to the third position with backup left and directly dives in with left again
- from the last position stop at the bucket's edge and take a jump shot
Teaching points:
- Always go in hard
- Keep body between ring and ball during backup
- Head right to overlook the whole width of the field.
- do not penetrate further than the bucket rim.
- dribble backwards to one meter outside the three-point line.
Variations:
- start on the other side
- Finish with rocker step, fade away etc.
- retreat instead of backup, i.e. jump backwards with two feet when breaking the penetration, then pass under the buttocks
- between the legs instead of under the buttocks
This drill is meant to let the players work on speed, condition and a bit of footwork:
Start in corner A;
- The player will run in a row making sure that the fastest man/woman is in front, so that he sets the pace and can take the rest of the group with him.
- From point A the players will run over the blue line to the back line, then they make slides over the back line (the green line) until the bucket line, then they run backwards over the red line to the other back line, slides over the green line forward run over the blue line and again slides over the green line and backwards run over the red line.
- Then slides over the whole back line to point A.
- Every time you pass point A the exercise starts again, determine the number of repetitions according to the condition of the team and build it up as the training progresses.
- After a while you could also hang on to the exercise for example within 40 sec. 1 time. Are you too late? Push-ups, sit-ups etc.
On the picture below:
Blue = run forward
Green = slides
Red = Run backwards

Please note:
- with the slides, bend the knees, the important thing is that the movement is fast but above all is made good;
- let the players start with a few second intervals, especially when walking backwards they will get in each other's way;
- when running backwards look forward, as if you are looking at the man you are defending;
- that the lines are not cut off.
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- Back and forth. 4 times.
- Wings score, than point (1 extra pass), than Trailer (1 extra pass)
- Scorer always gets outlet from rebounder. Scores goes outside, outlet. other wing to other side.
- Guard and center stay in the middle.
- Same drill back.
- In this drill, the one that starts the drill bij throwing the ball against the basket is also the one that gets the rebound after the score. Outlet to scorer. etc.
- Can be done in 3 passes, in 4 if trailer gets the ball or pointguard.