Basketball Drills

This drill is from Mike Neighbors, Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach. The drill is available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball YouTube Channel

This shooting drill is designed to create some chaos in practice to lead to calmness in games.

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

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University of Maine Men’s Assistant Coach Zak Boisvert has assembled some clips of special ball screen sets.

He has an outstanding site with posts on various coaching topics at www.pickandpop.net

His YouTube channel has several videos with various types of man to man plays, zone sets, and inbounds plays.

You can subscribe to receive an update when he posts a new video Zak Boisvert You Tube Channel

You can follow him on Twitter at this link: @ZakBoisvert

You aren’t going to be able to use all of these, but I hope that you can find one or two that fit your player’s abilities.

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You can also download diagrams of the plays at this link: Ball Screen Motion Specials/ATOs

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3 on 3 drill to work on icing ball screens.

The drill was contributed by Ryan Nguyen to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw

Ryan’s comments on this drill:

Continuity defensive drill from the Los Angeles Lakers from their pre-season Training Camp.

This drill works on side pick and roll defense where the defense looks to Ice/Blue/Push/Down, depending on your terminology.

The on ball defender adjusts their stance to be on the top of hip of the ball handler.

Goal is to prevent the ball handler from using the ball screen to get to the middle, keeping the ball on the sideline/baseline on the pass and follow action.

On the throwback to the screener, the on ball defender works for a lock and trail.

 

1 passes to 4. 1 follows his pass. 4 fakes the hand off.

x1 mirrors 1

x5 drops to the mid-line

 

 

4 passes to 1

 

 

 

4 passes and follows into a ball-screen for 1

On the pass, x1 jumps to the ball-handler’s top hip to force the ball baseline working on stance in “ICE” defense

x4 drops

1 takes a dribble or two and throwback to 4

 

x4 recovers and closes out to 4

x5 pushes out to his man and deny

 

 

 

1 sprints into a handoff with 4.

x1 lock-&-trail

1 passes back to top

 

– Offense turns to defense

– Defense gets off court and rotate new players

– 5 & x5 stay on court

– Same drill but on other side of floor

This drill to work on live ball dribble moves was contributed by Coach Zach Weir to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

Zach is the assistant boys coach at South Grand Prairie High School in Texas.

This is what Coach Weir had to say about the drill:

SGP Shooting Series is a drill that we run daily. It is a great drill for building not only shooting, passing, and dribbling skills – but also chemistry between players. This drill is used as a drill to work on reads versus defense and passing accuracy as well. We really stress pace of play in our offense and this drill is great for getting the players to feel the speed and pace they need to work at.

Rules for the drill:

• Our goal is 10 shots per 1 min. With our better shooters we will go 12 per 1 min.
• We will go 12 minutes ideally, but on days that we fit this series into our individual drills we will go at the very least 8 minutes.
• You must thank the passer when you make a shot.
• You must call out the action that you are performing – i.e, curl, fade, etc.
• Alternate in air passes and bounce passes.

Progression

• Coach as a defender
• Add secondary defender to read if players are ready
• Can also have the ball handler make a move off the dribble instead of triple threat

 

Guard makes a move out of triple threat and attacks elbow area.

Get both feet in the paint and jump stop/quick stop/staggered stop.

Guard in the corner steps into the pass and shoots a corner three.

Passer will sprint underneath the cone and replace the shooter in line.

 

Guard makes a move out of triple threat and attacks the rim/ block area.

Get both feet in the paint and jumpstop/ quickstop/ staggered stop.

 

 

Guard in the corner loops into the pass and shoots a wing three.

Passer will sprint underneath the cone and replace the shooter in line.

 

 

Guard makes a move out of triple threat and attacks elbow area.

Get both feet in the paint and jumpstop/ quickstop/ staggered stop.

Guard in the corner loops into the pass and catches shows shot.

 

The guard will attack the middle of the paint.

A coach stands in the middle acting like the secondary defender and tries to get a deflection.

Get both feet in the paint and jumpstop/ quickstop/ staggered stop.

Guard in the corner steps into the pass and shoots a corner three.

Passer will sprint underneath the cone and replace the shooter in line.

 

Guard attacks the nail and gets to feet in the paint.

Reverse pivot and pitches the ball to the guard in the opposite slot.

 

 

 

First guard replaces using correct footwork and opens like getting a shot.

Guard that got the pitch attacks elbow area.

Get both feet in the paint and jumpstop/ quickstop/ staggered stop.

Guard in the corner steps into the pass and shoots a corner three.

Passer will sprint underneath the cone and replace the shooter in line.

Guard on the wing attacks the coach standing on the baseline.

Passer will slide out of bounds, jump out of bounds, or jump stop after making the pass.

The player will make a right hand pass to the opposite corner.

Alternate in the air pass and bounce pass.

Guard on the opposite wing slides down to the corner, catches and shoots a corner three.

Passer will sprint to the opposite corner and then get in shooting line.

 

Guard on the wing attacks the coach standing on the baseline.

Passer will slide out of bounds, jump out of bounds, or jump stop after making the pass.

The player will make a right hand pass to the opposite corner.

Alternate in the air pass and bounce pass.

 

Guard in the corner steps into the pass.

Extra Pass is made to the player on the wing who will step into the pass and shoot a three.

Passer replaces the extra passer.

Extra Passer replaces shooter.

Shooter rebounds and replaces the first passer.