Basketball Drills

This drill is from Mike Neighbors, Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach.

The drill is available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball You Tube Channel

The drill uses shots that Arkansas gets within their offensive scheme.

The purpose behind posting this is to get you to think about ways to incorporate your schemes into drills that will be put some pressure on your players and give them a chance to build camaraderie when they have some success.

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This drill is from Mike Neighbors, Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach.

The drill is available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball You Tube Channel

Throwing it out as an idea to use for your summer practices and or skill development team workouts.

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 post was submitted by Coach Tom Kelsey.  Coach Kelsey has been a Head Coach at Belhaven University, Faulkner University, and Greater Atlanta Christian High School.  He has also been an assistant at LSU, Alabama, Murray State, and Lipscomb.  He played at Lipscomb under Coach Don Meyer.

Use this basketball drill to cover key areas for your team.

I like to use drills which combine areas of the game which will help us improve.

The Laker Outlet Drill works on blocking out, handling the basketball, getting open, feeding the post, hitting the open man, setting screens, on the ball defense, denying the pass and post defense.

The important part of anything combination drill is not to lose focus on any area. Each technique is emphasized. As with any basketball drill you want to concentrate on the technique. Don’t do drill for the sake of doing the drill. Work on the small details.

Laker Outlet forces players to concentrate and each move is critical. I like this also because it makes players work in a confined area of the court. Do not allow lobs to be thrown. Make offense work to receive each pass. Players also have to be solid with the ball on each catch, utilizing pivots to create space.

To begin work with, no defense.

Coach or player can throw the ball off the backboard and players will work on the block out position and technique. Start with designated offense and defense. Later once they understand the drill, you can make it competitive and whoever gets the ball off the rebound is offense.

As with any drill, you must think of how to break down and what are the teaching points. Here is a how to break it down into teaching points.

Teach rebounders

• Hands up
• Make contact on the block out
• Chin the ball
• Make outlet pass to a teammate by throwing the ball away from the defense.

Once rebound is secured, the wing will v-cut to get open for the outlet pass. Working on technique of getting open: Quick v cut, pushing off outside foot, changing speed and direction.

• Hands up to receive the pass
• Secure the ball
• Catch with back to sideline
• Turn and face up the floor
• Look for teammate and make strong, quick pass

Player on top will now work on getting open. Same techniques as before with the wing.

Once player receives the ball up top, wing must v-cut again to get open.

Wing now dribbles down to feed the post player.

• Using pivot to create space
• Low to the ground
• Dribble with outside hand protecting the ball
• Jump stop on the wing
• Use pivot again to create space
• Pass fake first before making the post feed (either fake high to make bounce pass or low to feed high)

Post player will work on technique of catching the ball.

• Give hand target to passes
• Come to meet the pass
• Secure the ball and chin
• Use one dribble move to get to the basket
• Once defense is added have post player move away and then v cut back into the post area.

 

Add screening for another option. Guard up top looks for wing coming off the screen from the post player. Working on setting and using screens.

• Wing must make v-cut and use the screen by coming off shoulder to shoulder with screener.
• Hands up and target for passer
• Screener must work on staying still on the screen
• Once wing comes off screen, screener will look for the ball with hands up on the slip
• Here you can work on different cuts off the screen, pop out, curl, flare, back pick.

Now add in the defense. Working on technique for denying passes, guarding the dribble and fronting the post.

 

Another option guard on top once receiving the ball dribbles away from where the pass came and looks to feed the post.

To make it competitive divide into teams and play to a predetermined score.

Guards are not allowed to make a move to get open until passer has the ball. The wing cannot move to receive outlet until teammate has the rebound.

Guard on top cannot make a move to get open until wing has the ball. The creates more emphasis on working to get open.

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

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 defensive drill is from the Encyclopedia of the Packline Defense assembled by Chris Filios. It is paired with the “Attack the Pack Playbook” , which was also compiled by Chris.

Click here to see the Attack the Pack and Packline Defense Bundle

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The concept of the drill is to quickly run through several offensive actions that you have to defend frequently.

If there are other movements that the teams that you play run, you can add them in.

Also, remove anything in this sequence that isn’t something you face.

Apply your defensive rules to defend the actions in the drill.

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The Van Gundy Drill is designed to force the defense to guard a variety of actions that they would see in the game.

It starts in a Horns sets.

 

 

Defend horns ball screen action 5 screening for 1.

 

 
 

 

Throw back to 4.

3 lifts.

4 reverses to 3.
 

 

4 sets wing pick and roll for 3.

5 ducks in from the opposite side.

1 and 2 exchange on the opposite side.
 

 

3 reverses to 2.

4 spaces behind 3 point arc.

 
 

 

High sprint ball screen 5 on 2.

 

 
 

 

2 throws back to 1.

5 posts up.

 
 

Once the offense (second or scout team) knows the motion, the defense will step on and guard it.

Play will be live and the offense can score off any of the actions.

 

This defensive drill is from the Encyclopedia of the Packline Defense assembled by Chris Filios. It is paired with the “Attack the Pack Playbook” , which was also compiled by Chris. Click here to see the Packline Attack and Defense Bundle

If you need customer service, email me at [email protected] or call/text me at ‪317-721-1527.

This post was submitted by Coach Tom Kelsey.  Coach Kelsey has been a Head Coach at Belhaven University, Faulkner University, and Greater Atlanta Christian High School.  He has also been an assistant at LSU, Alabama, Murray State, and Lipscomb.  He played at Lipscomb under Coach Don Meyer.

Coaching Post Players can be frustrating and a challenge.

You are trying all the drills.

You try all the motivation techniques.

You try easy drills and hard drills.

Still not seeing improvement as you hoped?

Learning how to teach certain skills is also important for a coach.

The most important thing is to keep it simple for your Post Players.

Getting them to do a few things well will pay off more than trying to have them do a large variety of skills.

So what are the most important things to teach and how to teach them?

1. Footwork.

Having the proper footwork is the foundation to good post play.

Emphasize footwork during every workout, practice, and game.

Everything starts with running the floor. A Post Player who can run the floor is a tremendous asset to the team. The ability to get back and protect the paint gives a defense the right foundation.

Running the floor on offense and beating the defender down the floor puts them into position to get easy baskets.

2. Positioning

How well a Post Player establishes position on both ends will determine their effectiveness.

On defense getting around to front in the post, showing on ball screens, giving help on drives, blocking out all involve being in the right position.

Offensively understanding angles and how to post and seal the defender are critical to success in the paint.

Because of the physical nature of posting up, players need to understand how to use their body.

That means holding the defense off by using their rear end, hips, and quick feet.

3. Hands

One of the most significant areas to help your Post Players is in their hands. They have to keep their hands up constantly.

For rebounding, I tell our players all the time what John Wooden said, “When the shot goes up, hands go up.”

If you want to rebound your hands, have to be up.

On defense I want our players to have their hands up especially in the paint. I want the referee to see both hands of our players.

Both hands up allow there to be much less chance of a foul.  If an official who can only see one hand the likelihood of a foul increases.

On offense the reason we want hands up is to be ready for the pass, but also to be a threat to catch. If a Post Player stands with hands down two things happen:

1. Their teammates are less likely to throw then the ball. We want our players to be available receivers at all times.
2. They are not a threat to the defense. We feel having hands up puts more pressure on the defense because that is one more player the defense must give attention.

Emphasize these areas each day. If you get them to play with good footwork, proper position and active hands you will see tremendous improvement.

Here are some great drills to put in right away to your workouts and practices.

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Pitch Aheads

 

 

 

 

 

Drill teaches your players to run the floor, make the catch and finish with a made basket.

Players will gain confidence in running the floor full speed and being able to make the play.

Pitch ball ahead to player running to the basket.

Coach can make the pass hard to catch or easy to catch.

Throw it out in front of the player each time so they have to make an effort to go after the basketball.

Player has to catch the ball clean and lay the ball up at the rim.

Pitch Aheads Continued

 

 

 

 

 

You can also have players make pass first then pass the ball back.

Catching off the Drive

 

 

 

 

 

Post players working on the catch and finish. Coach has the ball at FT line. Each player goes three times. Coach makes pass difficult to catch (up high, down low, off the bounce, too fast).

After catch post player makes quick move to basket without dribbling the ball.

Power Lay in drill.

 

 

 

 

 

Coach throws ball to hit the opposite side of the backboard. Do not want ball to hit the rim. Players must have hands up and knees bent so they are ready for the ball. On the rebound go up as high as possible and chin the basketball so they are strong with the ball.

1. Pogo. Keep the ball high on the rebound with arms extended and immediately go back up with the shot.
2. Quick put back into the basket. Come down with rebound with wide base and chin the ball go back up with the shot.
3. Shot fake and shot. Rebound and shot fake before going back up with shot. On the shot fake make sure to keep knees bent and the ball chinned. Teaching players to stay in basketball ready position.
4. Shot fake come to the other side of the rim on one dribble. Keep shoulders parallel to the backboard.
5. Catch in the air and put in back in (dunk or tip) Two hands.

Sprint to Block for Post Up

 

 

 

 

 

Sprint to the block post move. Use blocking dummy, coach or player to increase pressure defense. Post player works on position, sealing out the defender, catching the ball clean and making a move to the basket.

Put back any miss. Get the ball out quickly and make a good outlet pass. Sprint to half court.