Basketball Drills

This individual scoring drill drill is among the 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.

Click the play arrow so see the drill. 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 Panone, one of the co-founders of Basketball HQ.

I do realize that there are no chairs on the floor during a basketball game. I do realize that defenders move during a game. You can set the drill up with whatever landmarks you want to use to show your players where to execute their dribble moves, or you can just have them use their imagination as to where to practice their moves. I do feel that is essential to have players practice moves before using them in a game.

Any drill you pick up from another program or coach has to be modified to fit your needs. My philosophy behind this site is to get you thinking about ways to improve the drills that you use.

You can come up with a scoring or timing system to make this drill competitive as well.

Any Move Double Pin Down Diamond Drill

This one on one drill came from the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

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

The first drill was contributed by Kyle Gilreath, Head Boy’s Basketball Coach at Astronaut High School, Titusville, FL. Kyle is also the author of the basketball coaching website, Words on the Bounce.

Coach Gilreath was a graduate manager for Billy Donovan at Florida and learned the drill from Coach Donovan.

“21 Token”= Offensive Player stays on versus token defense (coaches/managers/walk-ons) until he gets 21 points. 3-pointer=3, jumper=2, lay-up=1. Player must run and touch the charge circle between each rep and cannot pop to the same spot on the floor 2 times in a row.

Editors note from Brian: You might not want your players to play half speed, but this would be a good way to warm up and to work on specific moves and reads at a pace that would allow players to think before they have to react going full speed.

“21 Live”= Best with a group of 4, defense is live. One a score, offense runs and touches the charge circle before popping back against a new defensive player (Offense must change sides of the floor from where they scored previously). On a miss, the defense runs to touch the charge circle to become the new offensive player as a new defense comes on (Offensive player who did not score goes to end of line). Play with a 3 dribble max.

Editor’s note from Brian: You can and should change the scoring system to reflect the types of shots you are looking to get in games. If you only make the layup worth 1 point, then you will not have players taking the ball to the basket in this drill. One way to play to play would be to count 3s as 3, layups as 2, and midrange shots as 1 to discourage settling for mirage pull-ups.

I also would rather allow a player to maintain possession than take a bad shot, so if they don’t have a shot after 3 dribbles they can pass to a coach and get the ball back.

You could have one player stay on offense until he or she scores 21 points and then change offensive players. That would force them to have to score with a simulated feeling of being exhausted late in a game. You can score it by counting possessions, shots, dribbles, or time that it takes to get to 21 points.

You can create your own rule for how to handle fouls. A suggestion would be 2 shots and the ball back to discourage the defense fouling and to reward the offensive player for drawing fouls.

This shooting drill is coached by new Indiana University Men’s Coach Archie Miller.

In this drill, the shooter has 2 minutes to make 2 consecutive shots from 10 spots.

If the shooter completes the 10 spots in under two minutes, he or she can continue to attempt to complete more spots until the two minute time limit is up.

Coach Miller records and posts the number of shots made and attempted during each round as well as the completion time when a player completes the drill successfully.

The idea of the post is to stimulate ideas. You should change the rules, scoring, timing, expectations, techniques, and emphasis of any other coaches’ drills that you see anywhere to fit your team’s needs.

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.

Click the play arrow to play the video with the drill.

If you are interested in learning more about the Championship Productions Basketball Coaching DVD that this drill came from, you can click the following link: Archie Miller’s Shooting Program

This one on one drill came from the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

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

The drill was contributed by Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics:

Defending the 1v0

“Wolf” – Chase the dribbler from behind

Sprint back. “You are never too late on defense.”
Attempt to block the shot low with the near hand
Rebound – do not go past the backboard!
Catching the dribbler from behind to block or change a shot is momentum changing play!

1v1 WOLF

Offensive player (BLUE1) starts in outlet box.

Defensive player (BLACK1) is out of bounds with ball on baseline. He/she is the “wolf”

Defense inbounds to offense and begins to chase the offensive player. Offense wants to finish with an extended layup if defense is trailing or an outside-inside stride stop if defense gets on inside hip.

Defense tries to block the shot low using the near hand. Defense avoids over-pursuing. DO NOT GO PAST THE BACKBOARD! Rebound any missed shot!

If the defense is able to catch up and get in front of the offense, it becomes 1v1 Live.

Offense and defense switch for the return trip down the opposite side of the court

 

This toughness shooting drill is among the 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.

BasketballHQ has just released their Basketball Coaches Training Group. In the group you will get access to different workout plans that are going to be for the team as a whole, by position, by the number of players and more. This is an all inclusive training group that is going to allow you to walk onto the court with a full workout plan in hand for your players through our easy to use Iphone and Android App. Every drill comes with a video breaking down the details of the drill, and all of the videos are instructed by a Pro or College coach and demonstrated by a high level player. click here for More Information on the Basketball Coaches Training Group.

Click the play arrow so see the drill. The drill is a You Tube video, so you will need to be able to access You Tube to see the drill.

The Coach in the video is Ryan Panone, one of the co-founders of Basketball HQ. He credits Andy Enfield as the Coach he got the drill from.

The video was shot when Andy Enfield coached at Florida Gulf Coast. He has since moved on to USC.

Any drill you pick up from another program or coach has to be modified to fit your needs. My philosophy behind the post is to get you thinking about ways to improve the drills that you use.

Players can compete against themselves or against a teammate. The goal is to get in the high 40s of makes in 5 minutes. In the drill, the players only go for 3 minutes so that are not close to that. You will need to adjust your standards and the types of shots you shoot in the drill. You might want to start at 3 minutes and work your way up to 5.

If you run the drill for 5 minutes, there certainly is an aspect of toughness required.

These types of toughness shooting drills are good at working on shooting when fatigued, getting shots off quickly as players must do in a game, and maintaining fundamentals and proper shooting form.

Andy Enfield 5 Minute Shooting Drill

Here is a 2:00 minute sample of the type of content that is available in the BasketballHQ Coaches Training Group.