Basketball Drills

This full court shooting drill is from Coach Mike White.

The video is hosted on YouTube.

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

Many programs do a similar drill.

I like the fact that the bigs shoot different shots besides layups.

In my opinion, any time you do conditioning, it is best to do it by passing, catching, shooting, and dribbling while you are running.

The goal for the drill is to score 130 points in 2 minutes.

You might need to set your standard a little lower depending on the level that you coach.

You can also adjust the scoring if you want players to shoot 3 point shots in the drill.

Or, you could set the standard lower to begin and then increase it as your team improves at this drill.

The video is from the Championship Productions YouTube Channel

If you are interested in learning more about the Championship Productions Basketball Coaching Video (available in both DVD and Instant Video Format) that this drill came from, you can click the following link: Mike White: Team Skill Development

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This drill was contributed by Jordan Petersen to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

Jordan is the Founder and Director of Positionless Basketball. Varsity Assistant at Stillwater High School (MN). Former Graduate Assistant at MSU-Moorhead. Former college player at UW-Eau Claire.

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These are Jordan’s comments on the drill:

Great shooting drill to work on all types of shooting along with conditioning. 6 minutes of non stop shooting, 30 seconds on each action.

Editor’s Note from Brian: Modify the shots and the passing angles to fit the spots that your players get shots from in your games.

You can also develop a scoring system and standards for your level to make the drill competitive.

Cut off a flare screen shot fake and pull up going right, then cut off a flare screen going right for 3 point shots.

Cut off a flare screen shot fake and pull up going left for 30 seconds, then cut off a flare screen going left for 3 point shots for 30 seconds.

Cut off a pin down going right for 30 seconds, then cut off a pin down going left for 30 seconds.

Fade cut on the right side for 30 seconds, then fade cut on the left side for 30 seconds.

Corner 3s on the right side for 30 seconds, then corner 3s on the left side for 30 seconds.

Lateral dribble left corner 3 for 30 seconds, then lateral dribble right corner 3s for 30 seconds.

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 from his green light shooting drill series.

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.

He has a standard for many of his drills to give players the following criterion for their shots;

Green light
Yellow light
Red light

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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.

This drill is from Mike Neighbors.

This shooting drill is designed to challenge your best shooters.

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.

For example, you might shoot more corner 3s, so you can find a way to incorporate those shots into the drill.

Coach Neighbors also uses the drill to determine which of his players have earned the green light to shoot 3 point shots in practice scrimmages and in games.

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This video is with PGC Basketball Director Sam Allen.

You might not use this exact drill, but I offer it as a way to think about improving your skill development drills to make them more applicable to the skills that you want your players to develop.

One decision that you will want to make is, do you want to individualize your finishing moves for each player in your Program. Or, will you teach a specific set of moves?

I also think it is important to decide how many moves you will want each player to use. In my opinion, most players should stick to 2 or 3 moves that they can finish with.

Whatever your answer is for those decisions, they are worth putting some thinking time into so that you know what you want to teach and how you will go about teaching it.

The spring and summer are the best times for that type of thinking regarding all aspects of your program.

My final thought for today is to take any ideas you get this spring and summer and modify them so that there is more of your program and philosophy in them than there is from the coach that you got the idea from.

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This conversion defense drill is with Creighton’s Greg McDermott.

The video is hosted on You Tube.

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

This is a drill that many coaches, use.

In his version, the offense has 12 seconds to score.

Coach also discusses the fact that when he is using numbers disadvantage drills, he likes to have players moving into the drill to make even numbers and more game realism.

He also makes sure that the players are executing their defensive conversion rules in the drill.

The video is from the Championship Productions You Tube Channel

If you are interested in learning more about the Championship Productions Basketball Coaching Video (available in both DVD and Instant Video Format) that this drill came from, you can click the following link: Greg McDermott: Special Situations & Offensive Sets

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