Basketball Drills

The coach in the video is Frank Allocco, former University of San Francisco Associate Head Coach and former De La Salle (CA) HS Head Coach.

The video is to get ideas for isolating individual players and individual defensive skills.

The drill might not fit your exact defensive rules, but the best use of the drill is to tweak it to your needs.

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If you are interested in learning more about the DVD that this sample was taken from, click here: Frank Allocco: Competitive Drill Progressions for Creating Energy in Your Gym

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Defensive Energy Drill

This drill is from Mike Neighbors when he was the Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach. The drill is available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball YouTube Channel The channel is still active as of this writing

Coach Neighbors got the drill from Mike Bradbury, who was the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at New Mexico. He is now an assistant at Louisville.

There are some really good teaching points that can be applied to your offensive concepts and drills, regardless of what transition system and shooting drills you use.

My takeaways from the video are:

1) Making every drill a passing drill
2) The terminology of “strike” for an on target pass.
3) Having more than one way to score competitive drills. I think variety for the players is good.
4) His Dragon spot fits his offensive rules, not just running a drill to run a drill
5) Sprint to the spot and then get feet ready
6) Giving players feedback on their performance in a drill from day to day throughout the season

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These Plays were contributed to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics.

3-on-3 Guts is an excellent live drill for reviewing and polishing your team defensive fundamentals. Further, it is a live drill to teach players how to get through adversity. It stresses the importance of getting and stringing together defensive stops. This drill is also an opportunity for the offense to use motion offense principles

RULES:

• Defense must make four consecutive stops before going to offense
• Stops are defined as defensive rebounds, steals or out of bounds possessions
• If the offense scores or gets fouled, the defensive “stop count” goes back to zero
• Offensive charges count as four stops
• Offense goes down and back and a new offensive group comes on the floor
• Do not change directions until the ball touches the rim or offense scores (teams switch directions after Defensive rebound or Offensive Field Goal Made)
• Check the ball in after steals and fouls
• Offense must inbound the ball on all out of bounds situations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phase 1

Defense must make four consecutive STOPS before going to offense.

STOPS are defensive rebounds, steals or out of bounds possessions. If the offense scores or is fouled, the defensive STOP count goes back to zero. Offensive charges count as four stops. Offense goes down and back, and a new offensive group comes on the floor.

The offense TAKES NO PRISONERS! The defense must earn its way off the court.

GREY team brings the ball up against the RED team.

Phase 1A

STAY. Do not change directions until the ball touches the rim. Check ball in after steals and fouls. Offense must inbound the ball on all out of bounds situations.

Offense: Play within motion offense rules.

Defense: Man-to-Man rules.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phase 2

Switch Directions. Teams switch directions after a MADE shot or DEFENSIVE rebound.

Phase 3

New Offensive Group. Offense goes down and back, and then is replaced by a new group. Black team is now on offense.

Defense must earn its way to offense by making four consecutive defensive stops.

This drill is from Mike Neighbors when he was the Arkansas Women’s Head Coach. The drill is available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball You Tube Channel. Coach Neighbors is now an assistant for the Dallas Wings.

He got the drill from Fred Castro, who was the Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Eastern Michigan. Coach Castro is now the Associate Women’s Head Coach at Mississippi State.

Coach Castro was an assistant with Coach Neighbors on the Washington staff before being named the Head Coach at Eastern Michigan.

Even if you don’t want to run the drill as is presented, there are some really good teaching points from Coach Neighbors in the video.

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This transition and conversion drill is presented by Ashland University women’s coach Robyn Fralick.

The 2016-17 Ashland squad was the first undefeated team in NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball. They finished as National Champions with a 37-0 final record.

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The drill in the video is a 2 n 2 drill for working on their pitch ahead in their transition game after a made basket.

However, the “baseball” or softball concept can be applied to any buildup drills that you do to provide a fresh and competitive way to present your concepts and skills.

The videos are 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: High Low/Motion Offense with Robyn Fralick

This video was sent to me by Jon Giesbrecht. Jon is currently an assistant coach with the University of Regina Women’s program.

Jon is also an assistant coach with the 17U Male Provincial team for Team Manitoba (Includes National Championship 2013-14). In previous years, Jon spent two years with the University of Manitoba as an assistant coach, he was also the head coach of the John Taylor Collegiate Junior Varsity Boys team for four years.

To contact Jon, please email him at [email protected]

He has a Tweet from Steve Nash about the video below. Steve said:

“Very nice breakdown for pg’s. Not just coz it’s me ha. Well done @jandgies”

Jon;s Twitter handle is @jandgies

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“Editor’s Note from Brian. I realize that 99.99% of the coaches viewing this page do not have and never will coach a player who is as good as Steve Nash. I also believe that no one will be able to apply all of the moves in the video. The purpose of this post and the video is to offer food for thought (even if it is only 1 technique or teaching point) for you to come up with ways to help your players to improve.