Basketball Drills

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.

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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.

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:

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.

This dribble hand off drill to work on hitting the diver is from Layton Westmoreland’s Ultimate Scoring Drill Book

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DHO bounce off Hit the Dive

Game Scenario

Player will start with the ball on the elbow, and dribble to the wing to initiate the hand off.

Once the guard takes the hand off and bounces off to get around the hedge, the big must dive hard to the rim while the hedge is concerned with the ball handler.

 

Player will then make a high pass to the diver as they fly to the rim, catch with two hands, power dribble and finish jumping off of two feet.

 

 

Breakdown Drill

Like any drill, you can add more complexity once you have taught and repeated the techniques that you want to teach.

You can add a helping defender or whatever else you need to add to teach proper decision making.

 

 

This dribble hand off finishing drill is from Layton Westmoreland’s Ultimate Scoring Drill Book

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DHO bounce off finishing drill

Game Scenario

Player will set defender up with quick cut inside, and then sprint to the hand off.

Post will dribble to the wing to initiate the hand off.

When the defender x5 hedges high on the hand off to cover the drive, ball handler must punch their inside foot towards the hedge and bounce away from the coverage, allowing room to read and react.

 

Player will then re-attack once the hedge drops and before their defender x2 can recover back into the play, getting to the rim for a finish.

 

Breakdown Drill

Player will start on the wing with a coach/player at the elbow to initiate the hand off.

Player will cut quickly to set up the defense and then sprint to the ball, and initiate the bounce off dribble for separation.

No more than 2 dribbles to bounce off.

 

Player will then re-attack to the rim to finish with their outside hand.

Make 7 from each wing.

 

These two one on one drills were contributed by Jordan Peterson 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

This are Jordan’s comments on the first drill:

Transition offense is a huge part of the game.

In this game like shooting drill, players will be working on scoring in transition.

A defensive player will be closing out on the offense in the corner.

The offensive player will have to read the defender to see if they should shoot it or drive it.

Transition 1v1

Shooter (1) starts at the three point line extended.
Defender (2) starts at the coaching box line.
Ball handler (3) or coach starts near half court.
Game starts on ball handlers movement.
Player 2 sprints to try to defend player 1 in the corner.
Player 3 passes to player 1, who tries to score off of a catch and shoot three, pull-up, lay up, side step. Can add that the offense can not score in the lane.

1v1 Contact Finishing

Defender stands at the elbow facing the basket.

Offense is on the baseline and dribbles out to the defender and goes around the defender.

Once the offense turns the corner it is live.

Offense is getting shoulder tip hip/chest and trying to cut off or veer defense to finish.
 

ADD ON: Dribble decision making/change of direction move can be added. Defender can lift up right or left arm to signal what way the offense must go around.

Players rotate offense to defense.

Run the drill on both sides of the floor.