Basketball Drills

The full court pressure release dribbling drill was contributed by Matt Monroe to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

Coach Monroe is in his third year as the head varsity boys’ basketball coach at Saint Ignatius College Prep and his 17th year overall as a basketball coach.

See Diagram Below

• #1 dribbles to the first cone and then performs a retreat dribble.

• After the retreat dribble, #1 dribbles back towards the same cone.

• #1 then completes a lateral dribble to the next cone.

• Once they reach the second cone, they drive hard to the middle cone with their right hand and complete a change of direction move.

• At the fourth cone, #1 completes another retreat dribble and attacks the same cone again.
• They then complete a lateral dribble from the fourth cone to the fifth cone.
• #1 makes a change of direction move at the fifth cone and completes a designated finish around the basket.

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This full court shooting drill is with former Marquette Men’s Coach Steve Wojciechowski.

The video is hosted on YouTube.

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

The shooter has two minutes to make 3 in a row from all 5 spots.

To make the drill fit your level of coaching and system of play, you can change the spots that you require your players to make three in a row from, or you can give them more than 2 minutes to finish.

I like the pressure of having to hit a third in a row after the shooter has made the first 2. I also like the time limit and the mental and physical fatigue that sets in as the two minute time limit approaches.

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: 4-Out Drive & Kick Offense for 3-Point Shots

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

This video is with PGC Basketball Directors TJ Rosene, Micah Hayes, and Graham Maxwell.

Tj (Head Men’s Basketball Coach) Micah, and Graham (Assistant Men’s Basketball Coaches) coach at Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, Georgia.

In addition to a drill to work on trapping, rotating, and passing out of traps, there is a segment on working on game-like passes that you throw in your offense.

The second part of the video deals with some ideas to help both coaches and players to bring energy to practices and games.

This video is a part of the 20 Week PGC Coaches Circle. You can sign up for free at this link: PGC Coaches Circle

You can see more drills and posts from PGC Basketball by visiting their Basketball Blog

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The video is a YouTube video, so you need to be on a network that does not block YouTube access.

This drill is from Mike Neighbors, Dallas Wings Assistant Coach.

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 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 27 years, and has been involved as a coach at this level for 30 years.

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

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.