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Conditioning with a Basketball

Share 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 [...]

60 Point Basketball Drill

Share 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 [...]

Competitive Basketball Drills

Share 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 [...]

1 on 1 Basketball drills

Share These drills came from the March Arizona Basketball Coaching Newsletter. If you are interested in downloading the newsletter, here is a link to do so:  Arizona March Newsletter Manager 1 on 1: 2 Managers/coaches (or chairs) stand 35 feet out from the baseline with one about 7 feet away from the sideline and the [...]

Basketball Drill – 3 on 1 Closeout

Share 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 [...]


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