Basketball Drills

Ball Screen Finishing Drill

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This drill for finishing off a pick and pop 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.

The Coach in the video is Matt McCall, currently the Head Men’s Coach at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. At the time this drill was filmed, he was an Assistant Coach at Florida.

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Ball Screen Finishing Drill

Dick Bennett Defensive Vision Drill

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This post contains a video with retired Wisconsin and Washington State Coach Dick Bennett.

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Even if you don’t play a pack style of defense, I hope the video gives you an idea or two as to how you can clarify and teach the system that you play.

You can make adjustments to the rules and requirements of the drill that fit your team.

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

Origins of the Pack Line Defense with Breakdown Drills – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

Defensive Vision Drill

3 on 3 Drill Series

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These drills were contributed by Marc Skelton, Head Coach for Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, NY to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

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

Coach Skelton said this about the drill series:

A great drill that simultaneously improves your team and individual players offensively and defensively is a series of 3 on 3 drills.

Offensively, we work on dribble hand-offs, cuts, shooting, passing, catching, screens, and timing.

Defensively, we work on communication and the different ways to defend screens.

I also like this drill because it helps to reduce turnovers.

As with any drill that you see anywhere, if you do feel that you can use it in your program, you should adjust it to fit what you are looking to teach and improve.

3 on 3 Drill Series

A great drill to help reduce turnovers is a modified 3 on 3 (3 dribbles maximum).

It is a great drill with lots of options.

This one is called “3 on 3 down”.

Offense is only allowed to score on pin down screens.

Wings work on using the screen.

The screener works on sealing after he sets the screen.

 

 

 

If the first option is not open 1 sets a down screen for the 4.

Lots of skills are built upon on this drill; moving without the ball, proper screens, what to do after setting a screen and timing, which gets lost in most offseason training.

Also defenses learn how to read the offense.

They can switch, stay, hedge. It forces the offense to get creative.

The next game is “3 on 3 UP”.

This game like “3 on 3 down” allows the offense only to score on back screens.

 

 

 

You can create lots of options from this simple game.

– “3 on 3 high” offense can only score from the high post.

– “3 on 3 GO” offense can use backdoor cuts and dribble handoffs

– 3 on 3 BLUE” Offense has to use a pick and roll to score

-“3 on 3 ORANGE” Offense has to use a pick and pop to score

 

 

 

 

Close Quarters Rebounding Drill

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A rebounding drill from Coach Justin Remington

I have a link at the bottom of the post for you to access the entire pdf of his Favorite Practice Drills.

The drill is not game-like, but in my opinion it does simulate inside defenders moving to establish defensive positioning and then having to get rebounding position when a shot is taken.

Hopefully you can tweak it in a way where it can be added to your drillbook.

Or, it can be used as a new drill here in the second half of the season.

There are several ways that you can make the drill competitive: Split into 2s, 3s, split the team into two teams, you stay in on defense until you get 3 rebounds in a row, a point per rebound, see which pair can get the most consecutive rebounds.

Close Quarters Rebounding Drill

Diagrams created with FastDraw

Coach starts with ball under the basket.

x1 and x4 chop their feet until the coach passes to any of the 3 offensive players…

x1 and x4 play scramble defense together as 1, 2 and 3 pass the ball to each other…

Coach yells SHOT and offense shoots and defense MUST go and BLOCK OUT two of the three players

 

1 passes t o 2

x4 is trying t o get out t o him/her

x1 is dropping ball level

coach yells SHOT

2 shoots

x4 and x1 box out

Coach Remington has a 54 page pdf assembled with Moreno Valley’s Favorite Practice Drills. You can access it by clicking this link: Moreno Valley Practice Drills

3 2 3 Competitive Shooting Drill

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This competitive shooting 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.

This drill is coached by Ryan Panone.

I encourage you to think about the best way to tweak the drill before using it so that it will offer the most benefit for your players.

Even as you are first implementing it, you may need to continue the adaptation process of making some adjustments so that the drill contributes to the improvement of your players.

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3 2 3 Competitive Shooting Drill

Warrior Shooting Drill

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This shooting drill was contributed by Joel Hueser FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

Coach Hueser is the Head Boys Coach at Papillion-LaVista South High School High School in Nebraska.

The comments along with each diagram are from Coach Hueser.

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

Warrior Shooting is a great drill simulating a variety of cuts:
1) Basket Cut
2) Using a Pin Down
3) Using a Flare Screen and
4) Back Cut.

The purpose of this post is to get your thoughts going about creating a similar drill that incorporates the shots that your players get in games.

In addition to game spots, I like to have shooting drills include a scoring and timing element as well.

Shot #1 Worth 1 Point:

Shooter starts at half court (or top of the key extended if space doesn’t allow), catches on the move and attacks the basket.

Points of Emphasis:

-Catch on the run and attack the basket with a 45 degree angle cut.

Shot #2 Worth 2 Points:

Shooter continues his cut to simulate using a pin down screen and shoots near the freethrow elbow.

Points of Emphasis:

-Emphasize inside-pivot.

 

Shot #2 Worth 2 Points:

Shooter continues his cut to simulate using a pin down screen and shoots near the freethrow elbow.

Points of Emphasis:

-Emphasize inside-pivot.

 

Shot #4 Worth 1 Points:

This will be the same as shot #1 but on the opposite side.

There are two ways to do this: 1) Sprint to halfcourt, or 2) Cut hard to ball level and simulate a back cut. We prefer this more times than not.

Points of Emphasis:

-Shot #5 & #6 will also be the same as #2 & #3.
-After the 1st shooter is done, the passer becomes the shooter and the rebounder passes.
-Repeat this again, but start on the opposite side.

And, below is a short video demonstrating the drill

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