Basketball Drills Man Down Drill

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Basketball Drills Man Down Drill

This drill is from University of Arkansas women’s Head Coach Mike Neighbors.

He has the longest running basketball coaching newsletter and it always contains great information.

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Great drill to work both sides of the ball simultaneously.

Can be made competitive in a variety of ways.

Can be played possession by possession or for time depending what you are looking for that practice.

Purple starts out on defense with 4 players defending 5 gold players.

The 5th purple player must stay on their offensive end at all times but can position themselves wherever they choose to set up.

<— Gold plays on offense until they score, turn the ball over, or purple rebounds a missed shot. —> In transition purple becomes the attacker with one gold team player designated to stay “back”

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Drill repeats continuously until you choose to stop.

Things it emphasizes:

– talking in transition to know who is getting back and who is staying back

– attacking in transition with long pass, quick outlet, hard advance dribble

– playing in the half court in scramble mode

– identifying personnel and defending accordingly

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Things it emphasizes (continued):

– locating the open player

– spacing

– balance of crashing offensive boards and sprinting back

 

 

You can also manipulate the foul rules to distort the game for the offense or the defense. Institute pass or dribble limits. Can play to a score or to a time. One of our players came up with, was play five trips until all five players have been the “back” person. As always, let us know ways you tweak the drill to fit your system.

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  5. Jason Tatkenhorst says

    I would like to be added to Coach Neighbors newsletter as well. Previously I received the newsletter but then I switched emails. It is a great newsletter!

  9. Felix Shen says

    Please send an email for me to Coach Neighbors to be added on to mailing list. Thank you.

  13. E.Rivera says

    I would like to be added to coach neighbors email list as well. He has a great newsletter and as a young ambitious coach myself, he offers a lot of informative material.

  21. Henry Lorenzo says

    Please add me to Coach Neighbors newsletter. I used to get it when he was at Xavier but stopped… not sure why. Thanks for all you do!

    Henry Lorenzo
    Head Coach
    Christopher Columbus High School

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