Basketball Drills

This video is of a 4:05 whiteboard session with former Middle Tennessee (currently at Mississippi State) Coach Kermit Davis going through a drill he uses daily to work with his players on footwork, passing, and catching against defensive pressure.

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: Offensive Skill Development Against Pressure

I have also listed some skill development drills that have already been posted on the site below the video.

There is no on-court demonstration, but I think you can understand the way that he runs the drill by following along with his diagrams and his demonstrations. Like any other drill, you should tweak it until it is something that fits your system and improves the skills of your players.

Make sure your sound is on The video is 4 minutes long.

This video is one of the great resources available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as basketball coaching resource articles.

Sean Hanrahan is the Head Men’s Coach at Warner University.

You can tweak the drill to make it fit what you want.

I like the idea of playing to 10 to improve focus and concentration with the competition.

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

Second Move Finishing Drill

The video in today’s post is with former NBA Assistant and Division 1 Assistant and Head Coach Larry Shyatt.

He is also the former Head Coach at Wyoming and Clemson as well as an assistant at Florida State.

The drill forces your players to sprint back in conversion defense, communicate, and rotate.

If you are interested in finding out more about the DVD that the video sample came from, click here:

Larry Shyatt: Building a Defensive Culture – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

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The video is a YouTube video.

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This basketball shooting drill came from Mike Neighbors’ Basketball Coaching Newsletter.

If you would like to subscribe, email me and I will forward your interest on to Coach Mike Neighbors.

The shooter in the video, Kelsey Plum, became both the Division I Women’s Career Leading Scorer and Single Season Leading Scorer during the 2016-17 season.

At the time this was filmed, Coach Neighbors was at Washington. He has since moved on to Arkansas.

This is Coach Neighbor’s description of the drill:

Fun drill that we got from a high school coach, but per NCAA rules does not allow me to mention them by name… but thanks!!

With a player like Plum who is in the gym so often it’s imperative to find new ways to keep score and track time during her shooting sessions.

This quickly became a favorite…

For us it’s a game spot/game shot drill. Not necessarily game speed but we still create some elements of relocation and 1-2 step shooting to make her move between attempts.

Like most drills, the secret sauce is varying the scoring to keep the challenge unique.

In 99, the shooter gets 3 points for every made shot. That score continues to accumulate as shots are made. If one shot is missed there is NO penalty, but if two shots are missed consecutively, three points are deducted from the overall score. The goal is to get to 99 points before the shooter falls below zero or a set time is reached.

Your best shooters will strive to never “go backwards’ by missing two in a row.

In this video, Plum gets to 99 in 2:09.60. Since then she has set a record of 1:53.10.

I can assure you she won’t stop doing this drill until she makes 33 in a row with no misses.

Another key: get a good rebounder. Notice I delegate that to Coach Todd Schaefer here, and I assumed the much, much more important role of timer.

Hope your players enjoy this.

We have since morphed this into a team shooting and small group drill that creates fun times in practice… Clutch shooters will emerge!!!

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Some teaching points from Drew Hanlen, Founder of Pure Sweat Basketball on teaching your players to create separation.

The drill is posted in the Pure Sweat YouTube channel. You can access their channel of instructional videos at this link:

Pure Sweat YouTube Channel

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Editor’s Note from Brian: My apologies for the misspelling of “Separation.” Not something I can fix. I do the best I can to pump out a lot of high quality articles for basketball coaches that will inspire thinking.

Separation Moves

A post player skill development drill to work with your post players on one on one moves when they catch the basketball off the block.

You might not want to use this exact drill, but I hope that it stimulates your thinking on how you can work with your inside players to improve their scoring skills.

The Coach in the video is Bruce Weber of Kansas State.

If you are interested in finding out more about the DVD that the video sample came from, click here:

Open Practice: Player Development Drills for the Ball Screen Offense – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

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