Basketball Drills

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

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The drill was contributed by Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics:

Phase teaching of the dribble hand off.

This is an example of how one coach teaches the Dribble Hand Off concept.

This might not be the best way for you or your program to have this skill taught, but I do think it is important to break down the skill and teach your players to make decisions out of it if you are going to use it as a part of your offense.

You might want players running the dribble at instead of a coach so that they can work on their skills as well.

PHASE A Drive & Finish

Coach looks at, dribbles at 1, 1 blast cuts from corner and accepts the hand off

Finish with extended layup with various release angles, different hands or the stride stop to a power layup on opposite side of rim

trail read

PHASE A – Split

Coach looks at, dribbles at 1, 1 blast cuts from corner and accepts the handoff

Split the defense with a hard crossover then finish with extended layup with various release angles, different hands or the stride stop to a power layup on same side of the rim

switch or hedge read
 

PHASE A – Pull Up

Coach looks at, dribbles at 1, 1 blast cuts from corner and accepts the handoff

Take shot off the one dribble pull up or two dribble pull up

drop read

 

PHASE A – Twist
Coach looks at, dribbles at 1, 1 blast cuts from corner and accepts the handoff

Player 1 stretches the dribble…

matched no advantage read

 

 

PHASE A – Twist (continued)
Coach “twists” the DHO and balls screens for Player 1

Player 1 accepts the ball screen. may either take the pull up or finish at rim with extended layup or stride stop into a power layup

 

 

PHASE B
Coach looks at, dribbles at 1, 1 blast cuts from corner and accepts the handoff against the guided defender (x1). x1 is instructed to either trail or go under

Player 1 make appropriate read and finish

 

 

PHASE C
Coach looks at, dribbles at 1, 1 blast cuts from corner and accepts the handoff against the guided defender (x1). x1 is live, he/she may trail or go under -their choice.

Player 1 make appropriate read and finish. Coach may need to twist into the ball screen

 

PHASE D
Coach looks at, dribbles at 1, 1 blast cuts from corner and accepts the handoff against the guided defender (x1). x1 is instructed to either trail (shown) or go under

Player 1 make appropriate read and finish and play with Find Use Create rules with an offensive advantage

Coach delivers hand off and gets out of the drill (may need to twist into a rescreen)

This drill from Jay Wright and Villanova came from the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

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The drill was contributed by Mike Shaughnessy is a Player Development Coach for Dr1ven Training LLC.

This is what Coach Shaughnessy said about the drill:

Villanova is known for being a very fundamentally sound basketball team.

They do a tremendous job of valuing the ball (1.4 Asst./TO Ratio) and finish around the rim at a high percentage (66% avg. past 2 years).

This is a drill that the men’s basketball team does in practice throughout the year to work on getting open versus pressure, working on their triple threat (pivots, jabs), and finishing strong around the basket.

There are also two videos with the diagrams of the Villanova coaching staff teaching the drill (above the diagrams) and then of the players applying the skills in games (below the diagrams).

This video came from the Jay Wright Open Practice Skill Development DVD. You can click the link for more information about the DVD.

Click the play arrow to view the Youtube video.

I do realize that there are times in the video when the players travel. You can clean that up in your practices. The idea behind posting the video is for you to see the Villanova staff’s coaching points to possibly apply to your fundamental drills.

Player’s 1 and 2 get open versus the pressure given by the coaches by stepping across their feet and body to put them on their hip/back similar to a post up. This is to have assurance that the defender can’t shoot the passing lane.

Player’s 3 & 4 will pass to the outside hand away from the coaches. Player’s 1 & 2 will release to the basketball on the flight of the pass. To create space and face up to the basket.

Player’s 1 & 2 will work out of their triple threat utilizing jabs and rip through’s to drive to the basket. Player’s will finish off a jump stop (two feet) to finish strong at the rim.

Player’s 3 & 4 would replace player’s 1 & 2’s spots after they drive. 1 & 2 will rebound their ball and go to the end of the line where the cones are.

The same drill is performed with player’s 3 & 4 entering the ball to 1 & 2 lane line extended.

Player’s will work out their triple threat using their pivot and jabs to drive down the alley.

Player’s will use a jump stop to play off 2 feet to finish around the rim.

Here is a short video of the concepts applied in game situations:

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.

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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