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 another 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

The drill is a standard drill, but I think Mike has some very good teaching points included that you can apply to a lot of the drills that you use in your program.

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

The first passing drill was contributed by Fabian McKenzie to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

Coach McKenzie has been a head coach at the university level for 17 years, and has been involved as a coach at this level for 20 years.

He has been involved with the Canadian Women’s National team program for the past 9 years.

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These are Fabian’s comments on the drill:

This is a good drill to challenge young players to work on passing form and dribbling with speed.

Players form a circle. Vary the size of the circle to challenge the players.

Player 1 and 3 have basketballs.

When coach blows whistle, 3 begins to dribble around circle.

Player 1 with ball passes to 2.

2 passes to next 1 and receives a pass back from 1.

2 must continue the pattern around the circle.

The goal for 3 is to get back to the starting spot before the ball makes it back.

1’s and 2 must pass as quickly as possible to try and race 3 back to the starting spot.

5 Out Jump Stop & Kick Passing Drill

This second drill was contributed by Mike Shaughnessy. Here is the link to the original post: 5 Out Jump Stop & Kick

Mike Shaughnessy is a Player Development Coach for Dr1ven Training LLC.

All 4 players with the ball are driving.

2 bounces to the box coming to a jump stop on 2 feet.

Players will pivot to where they are passing and snap the pass to the next person in line and rotate to the line they pass to.

5 in the corner will throw the drift pass being the only one that does not come to a jump stop (Stride Pass).

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

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

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.

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.

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.