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3 Basketball Drills from Shaka Smart

By Brian Williams on December 26, 2013

3 Basketball Drills from Shaka Smart

These 3 basketball drills from Shaka Smart were posted by FastModel’s plays and drills library by Kyle Gilreath.

The library has hundreds of plays and drills from coaches all over the world and from various levels of coaching. You can check it out here:

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If you are interested in seeing a 3 minutes and 41 seconds video of Coach Smart going through a portion of his diamond press, click this link (You do not need to purchase anything to see the video) Shaka Smart Diamond Press

 

 

Trap Transition

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Trap Transition is a drill that forces your offense to get open under pressure and teaches your defenders who to anticipate the first pass out of a trap.

A Guard starts with the ball in the trap and they have to hold it for 2 seconds, then they can pass it out. From their it is live, the defense must sprint back in transition while trying to intercept the ball.

x1 is interceptor side

x3 is interceptor high

x5 is the goaltender

 

Triangle FastBreak

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Occasionally while pressing the defense gets overaggressive and the trap breaks down and the ball gets ahead creating a 5 on 3 situation. This is the perfect drill to teach your players to never give up on a play and to sprint back trying to get a back tip in transition.

 

 

 

1 starts with the ball

x1 and x2 chase to backtip

1 cannot pass until they gets to half court

Once they throw it ahead it is 4 on 4 live

444

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444 Is a great defensive drill that involves your entire team. It forces the offensive and defensive teams to stay focused as soon as there is a make/miss or turnover/steal to jump right into your defense and try to create HAVOC.

Three Teams of 4. If the offensive team scores they get to keep the ball and must inbound it again. The defense continues to press until half court, looking to get a steal to score. Once the offensive team reaches half-court the defensive team on the other end picks them up. If the defense gets a stop they become the new offensive team and the new defense can try to get a steal before halfcourt.

Score this like a regular game and go for a specified amount of time.

Below is a video of Shaka Smart going through a portion of his diamond press:

If you are interested in seeing more about Coach Smart’s Havoc Pressure Defense DVD, click here:

If you click the play arrow on the video below, you will land on a page in our shop where you can watch the sample video.

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