Basketball Drills

Today’s post is a shooting drill from former St. Anthony Coach Bob Hurley.

The video of this shooting drill is hosted on YouTube.

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

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.

For example, you can set a team standard, or a team record, that you are going for in 5 minutes.

You can change the time to 4 minutes and have two teams of 8 competing against each other (one team at each end) if you have 16 (or more) players in your practice.

I think it is good to have another competitive shooting drill to add to your drills list.

I also like that the players have to communicate before they get the basketball to shoot.

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

A competitive shooting drill posted in 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

– Player 1 starts with the ball at the free throw line.

– Player 2 starts parallel with player 1 spaced out free throw line extended.

– The drill is initiated with player 1 passing the ball to coach.

– Once the ball is passed to coach, player 1 is sprinting below the cone to try and run player 2 off the 3 point line preventing them from a rhythm 3.

– As the ball is passed, player 2 is drifting to the corner being shot ready.

– The ONLY shot the player can shoot is a catch & shoot 3

– If the player makes the shot, they stay on offense.

– First player to make 4 3’s wins.

Editor’s Note from Brian: In order to keep players from practicing taking bad shots, you could give a point for a shot turned down that is not a good shot because it is challenged. No point awarded for turning down a shot that the player should take. Then, make the made shots worth 2 (if player is on or inside the line) or 3.

Additional rules:

– Play with no shot fake and just has to be a rhythm catch & shoot 3.

– Play with shot fake w/ no dribble.

– Play with shot fake w/ side step using 1 dribble.

– Play with 1 dribble to score vs. the defender running the shooter off the line.

Same rules apply putting the players in a different position and situation. Frames 2 & 3 are added ways to play this small sided game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This drill is from Mike Neighbors.

It 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.

Click the play arrow to see the drill.

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

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.

Click play to see the video

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

This is a YouTube video, so you will need to be on a server that allows you YouTube access.

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