Archive for the 'basketball drills' Category

Conditioning with a Basketball

This basketball drill is from the Xavier University men’s team. “Can you do conditioning with a ball in your hand instead of just running?” This drill evolved from this question. Drill involves 10 players —5 on offense vs. 5 on defense. It is executed for :45-:60 seconds in the NBA and :90 seconds in college. [...]

60 Point Basketball Drill

I found the idea for this from Coach Creighton Burns and have made a few suggestions for ways that you can adapt the drill to your team. The purpose of the drill is to simuate the end of game situation where the team with the ball is playing ball control .  Our philosophy is that [...]

Competitive Basketball Drills

I think there is a lot of value in running your offense 5/0.  Here is an idea to get more out that drill in your basketball practices by making it a competitive basketball drill rather than a  repetitive activity.  I have also included three ideas for variations of the drill. Split your sqaud into two [...]

Basketball Drill – 3 on 1 Closeout

I found this defensive drill on the Xavier Men’s Basketball Newsletter.  If you are interested in checking it out or subscribing, you can go to this link for either: http://www.goxavier.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/xavi-m-baskbl.html Like everything else I post, I hope you can adapt a version of this to fit your defensive system.  We don’t trap the post from [...]

Tom Izzo Rebounding Drill

“TOM IZZO”S BEST REBOUNDING DRILL” from Coach Eric Musselman RULES: 1.) Put 5 defenders in line right under the rim facing half court. 2.) Place 5 offensive players on the perimeter. Put a player in each corner, each wing, and one at the point. 3.) The coach shoots the ball from different spots on the [...]


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