Basketball Drills

Circle 4 on 4 Defensive Drill

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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.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw

These are Jordan’s comments on the drill:

Drill to work on defensive communication as well as closing out to help.

Can add the offense circling up to add more of a challenge to the defense and have the offense work on finding/maintaining spacing.

 

Coach starts with the ball.

Defense circles up.

Players are constantly communicating who they are guarding while circling.

When coach passes ball to a player, the defense closes out to players and correct help.

 

 

On the catch 4v4 is live.

Can add restrictions that a pass must be made before attacking/shooting or they must run a certain action before shooting.

 

 

 

Can add the offense circling as well to challenge the defense to stop the ball first and match up with closest man as well as challenging the offense to maintain/find good spacing.

 

 

 

Defense closes out to help.

 

 

 

Double Crossover Finish Drill

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This drill is among the thousands of resources for both coaches and player available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as basketball coaching resource articles.

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

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The drill is a YouTube video, so you will need to be able to access YouTube to see the drill.

The Coach in the video is Ryan Pannone of BC Prievidza (SBL)

 

 

Double Crossover Finish Drill

Shaka Smart Evans Shooting Drill

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This shooting drill is presented by Shaka Smart.

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

The video is hosted on You Tube, so you will need to be on a network that allows you to access that site.

The videos are from the Championship Productions You Tube Channel..

The drill requires the player to shoot from 5 spots on the floor–2 corners, 2 wings, and top of the key.

The player stays at the same spot until she misses 2 in a row.

You could add a time factor to the drill by saying that the player has a specific amount of time to complete the drill.

The competitive aspect is to see how many shots the player can make after shooting from all 5 spots. The most Coach Smart has seen is 219.

You can have players compete against themselves, or against teammates, or against standards that you assign by players position or age.

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: Competitive Drills for Shooting, Ball Handling, and Finishing

2 in a Row Team Shooting Drill

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This 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.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw

These are Coach McKenzie’s comments on the drill:

This is a fun & competitive drill which adds pressure to shot taking and making.

You can do this with groups of 2 or 3 people

5 spots are marked.

You could use different spots or reduce the number of spots

Each player in the group must hit 2 in a row from the spot before the group is allowed to move to the next spot.

The first group to finish all 5 spots and get to the center circle wins.

Defensive Shutout Drill

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This defensive drill is demonstrated by Northern Iowa Head Coach Ben Jacobson and the Northern Iowa players.

He has his team execute for 35 seconds since that was the college rule at the time that this video was filmed.

You can set the time length for anything that challenges your players.

When I have used this drill, we have used it as a toughener drill to end practice with and set the time at 51 seconds.

I selected that time because one season, our average time in the half court portion of our defense was 17 seconds and I wanted our players to prove that they were more than tough enough to make a stop at the end of a game because they had done 51 seconds in practice.

Also, since we practice against our high school second unit, I wanted it to offer more of a challenge than the younger players could. In college, you probably practice against a better second unit.

My focus for the drill is execution, and not just results. We do not start over if the other team made a shot as long as it was challenged and we had all of our block outs completed correctly.

We also started the 51 seconds over if the defense was not talking or not in proper help positions. You can add anything to the defensive violations list that you emphasize.

One idea you might consider adding to the drill would be conversion defense, rather than just running the drill half court.

You don’t have to stop to huddle each time the clock stops. Use his ideas as a guide to set the drill up as you want to.

The video is a YouTube video so make sure that you are on a server that allows YouTube access.

If you are interested in learning more about the DVD that this sample was taken from, click here: Open Practice with Ben Jacobson

Make sure your sound is on

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Defensive Shutout Drill

3 on 3 Space Change Drill

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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.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw

These are Jordan’s comments on the drill:

Small sided 3 on 3 game.

Once the offense secures the rebound they must all get outside the 3 point line before trying to score.

Offensively it is important to emphasize spacing and is a good drill for players to learn to find space.

Defense must get two feet in the lane before closing out to man or help.

Offense starts inside the arc. Defense starts outside the arc. Coach shoots the ball up and the defense gets the rebound. On the rebound:

Outside players (defense) must get two feet into the lane before playing defense.

Inside players (offense) must get two feet outside of the three point line before scoring.

ADD ONS
Shot clock-14 seconds on the rebound
Defense must defend someone not directly across from them.

Outside players (defense) must get two feet into the lane before playing defense.

Inside players (offense) must get two feet outside of the three point line before scoring.

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