Basketball Drills

Tad Boyle (Colorado) puts some demonstration players through a drill that he got from Mike Malone.

The drill works on one team’s 4 on 5 halfcourt defensive rotations while the other squad has to convert to defense after they shoot.

There are several modifications that you can make to the drill to work on areas where you need to improve or to offset talent discrepancies between your first and second units.

Some ideas for tweaks to the drill are:

1) Allow offense to dribble in phase 1
2) Assign the 4 defenders to an individual matchup and leave one offensive player unguarded. That way you can work on help rules. If you leave a perimeter player unguarded, you can work on help and recover. If you leave a shooter unguarded, you can work on awareness and hedging.
3) Instead of having 1 player all the way back, you can have 2 offensive players back to make the defensive conversion even more challenging. You can put them in the corners instead of one under the basket. Then, to avoid playing 6 on 5, you can have one of the 2 who were back to step off once it becomes half court play.

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You can find out more about the Championship Productions video that this clip is from at this link: Tad Boyle Individual & Team Drills

This shooting drill is provided by Dr. Dish Basketball.

The drill is from Georgia Men’s Coach Mike White’s drill book.

You could always add a defender closing out on the second ball to allow the player attacking the close out to make a read.

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Coach Dan Muller provides a short philosophy on why he teaches stunting to the basketball as well as a drill he uses to practice the technique.

The clip is 4 minutes and 11 seconds long.

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You can find out more about the Championship Productions video that this clip is from at this link: Dan Muller: Foundations for Man-to-Man Defense

This shooting drill is provided by Dr. Dish Basketball.

The drill has been utilized at his past stops by TJ Otzelberger of UNLV.

You can take his thoughts and actions and apply them to your system so that you can have:

1) Drills that emulate shots your players get within your offense
2) Shots that come off of cuts and passes that your players make in your offense
3) Multiple players getting shots in the same drill.

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This wing shift scoring progression series is provided by Dr. Dish Basketball and their partner, Drew Hanlen of Pure Sweat Basketball.

Like all drills that you see, you can either modify it or take parts of the drill for your use and your needs.

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