Basketball Drills

33 Shooting Drill

By Brian Williams on December 9, 2018

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

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

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The drill is a You Tube video, so you will need to be on a server that allows you to access You Tube to see the drill.

2, 3, 4 3 Point Shooting Drills

By Brian Williams on November 26, 2018

Today’s post is a 3 point shooting drill.

The video of this drill is hosted on You Tube and features Coach Jeff Young of Walsh University.

You will need to be on a network that allows you to access You Tube.

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There is narration with the video, so please make sure that your sound is on.

You can make adjustments to the drill to fit your needs.

For example, you might want to adjust the number of makes required to move to the next spot to one that fits your coaching level and still challenges your players.

You can find out more about the Championship Productions video that this clip is from at this link:
Jeff Young: Improving Your Team’s 3-Point Shooting

Angle 3 on 3 Drill

By Brian Williams on November 12, 2018

3 on 3 Drill was posted to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Mike Shaughnessy of Dr1ven Training and Stockton University.

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

Angle 3v3

Advantage/Disadvantage 3v3 putting the offense in a position to make a quick decision out of drive and kick while making the defense provide great helpside defense to contain the offense.

Description:

Player 1 starts the drill once they make their movement downhill.
Player x1 can’t move to try and recover until player 1 starts their movement.

Rules:

Player 1 has to attempt to get downhill through the elbow.
Player’s 2 & 3 have to relocate once player 1 attacks downhill. (* If 1 passes early before the elbow [kick ahead], player in the strong side corner can hold the spot being shot ready).
If the ball sticks and movement becomes stagnant, it will result in a turnover for the offense.
Hold players accountable to re-space with urgency after a drive and kick-out.

Goals:

Play drive & kick game until the 3 players on offense are able to creat a rhythm shot, downhill drive to the rim, or a one more pass for a catch and shoot.
Score it, you keep it. Play to a certain amount of points or time.

– Player 1 starts in the slot (shoulders facing the basket).

– Player x1 starts on player 1’s hip with their chest facing the inside shoulder.

– Player’s 2 & 3 start in the corners.

4 on 3 Scramble Defense Drill

By Brian Williams on November 2, 2018

This 4 on 3 Scramble Defensive Drill was posted to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Matt Wheeler.

Coach Wheeler has coached at Florida A&M, Daytona State, and Olympia High School as an assistant boys varsity coach, head girls varsity coach, and head boys varsity coach.

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This defensive drill works on defending scramble situations when the defense is temporarily outnumbered. Once the ball is entered the drill is live and the offense tries to score 4v3. The 4th defender can enter play after 7 seconds or after a shot is taken. The three initial defenders will not have a match-up, but whoever is closest to the ball must pick it up as they buy time for the 4th defender to get on the floor.

To add a communication component to the drill, require defenders to say “I Got Ball” when they closeout on the ball so they don’t accidentally get two defenders on the ball. If a defender is in a situation where they are guarding two people, have them say ” I Got Two.” The 4th player enters the floor going furthest from the ball. They must communicate who they are guarding and tell their teammates where to match up so they can get out of the scramble situation.

The offense starts with 3 players on the perimeter and 1 and in the paint.

Coach passes to 4 in the paint.

All 3 defenders look to strip the ball from 4.

4 passes to the perimeter and the offense plays live 4 on 3.

The defense must scramble and obtain new matchups as the ball moves.

The 4th defender enters play seven seconds after the ball is passed to the perimeter.

Make sure that your sound is on and that you are on a server where you can access YouTube to watch the video below.

Bob Hurley’s Triangle Block Out Drill

By Brian Williams on October 19, 2018

Today’s post is a defensive movement and rebounding drill with Hall of Fame and former St. Anthony Coach Bob Hurley.

The video of this rebounding drill is hosted on YouTube.

You will need to be on a network that allows you to access YouTube.

Click the play arrow to view the video.

There is narration with the video, so please make sure that your sound is on.

You can make adjustments to the drill to fit your needs, the types of actions that you defend, and your overall defense and defensive rebounding philosophies.

I like the concept that the rebounding drill involves the positioning and movement that is a part of the defensive system.

You can find out more about the Championship Productions video that this clip is from at this link:
Bob Hurley’s Drills for Defensive Mastery

Box and Break Drill

By Brian Williams on October 15, 2018

This drill was contributed to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics.

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“Box & Break” is a defensive rebounding drill at heart, but can also serves as a sudden change drill off turnovers and a conversion drill.

The drill can be regressed to 3v1 or 3v0 or loaded to 3v3 on the break.

Defense and Rebounding

PHASE 1. 3v3 defensive shifting (three-player shell drill).

Offense move ball around forcing defense to execute defensive fundamentals.

If/when ball is passed to coach (shooter) the offense goes to the glass and defense boxes out.

Defense breaks full court (3v2) when they gain possession.

NOTE: Reset on all made shots.

Since this is primarily a box out drill, shooter can make a few shots to emphasize rebounding techniques when the offensive player goes to the glass.

Shooter can move around the court as well.

Break Off Turnovers (Sudden Change)

Phase 1A. If/when offense turns the ball over, the defense breaks full court.

On loose balls, the defensive player first cuts off their opponent then goes for the ball.

If/when the defense gains possession, they break 3v2 full court.

Play continues 3v2 until offense scores or defense gets possession.

Filling the Lanes and Attacking

PHASE 2. Push!! PINK1 pushes the ball on a hard dribble looking to advance with the pass.

Wings get width and depth fast! Play continues 3v2 until the offense scores or the defense obtains ball possession.

REGRESSION: The break can be 3v1 or even 3v0 to just emphasize pushing off the rebound and turnover and finding width and depth and converting.

LOAD: The break can be 3v3

Repeats – Transition to Defense

Phase 3. If/when the defense regains possession either after steal, DREB or FGM, they quickly make outlet to COACH who has moved into this side of play.

COACH then passes ahead to either 1, 2 or 3.

The three offensive players must sprint back and match up.

REPEATS. Offense again moves the ball side to side forcing the defense to shift.

If/when the defense deflects the pass and gains ball possession or rebounds a missed shot, they push the ball down 3v2 again.

CONDITIONER. Drill is repeated several times before the defensive players (PINK TEAM) steps off. Rotate offense to defense to out of the drill.