Basketball Drills

This 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.

You can use this drill to get some ideas for a way to create a similar routine into your practices or improvement season workouts. I like the idea of a timed competition to keep players focused. You can substitute your own finishing moves such as jump hooks, floaters, up and under, or anything that your players use to score in the lane.

A good time for college players is 8 minutes, but for high school it could be 9 minutes. The best way for you to determine the time is by running the drill with your squad a few times–especially if you make adjustments to adapt the drill to different shots.

Layup drills are 10 makes, jump shots require 8 minutes from each spot.

The drill is from Coach Mike Roberts, University of North Carolina Greensboro Assistant Mens Coach

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

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8 Minute Partner Progression Shooting Drill

This defensive dill was posted in the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library by Kyle Gilreath, Assistant Basketball Coach at Fort Myers (Florida) High School.

Kyle previously served for five seasons as an undergraduate manager and graduate assistant for Billy Donovan at Florida.

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

The drill works on players closing out to their help positions when the player they are guarding does not receive the basketball.

You can apply your defensive rules and make any adjustments to make the drill more like your games.

This is a good way to practice skills involved in defensive rotations so that your team has organized defensive rotations and not chaotic defensive scrambles.

Players start on whistle slapping the floor and footfire. On the pass they close out to where they should be in conjunction with their man and the ball.

The offense can pass the ball around but do not add dribbling yet.

x2 is guarding the coach who catches the basketball, so he closes out on the basketball.
x3 is guarding the coach at the top and closes out into the passing lane (or help gap depending on your defensive scheme)
x1 is guarding the player on the help side and closes out to the midline.

Make sure the defensive players rotate so they aren’t always closing out to the same player.

The second diagram shows the rotations if ball is passed to top.

The defensive players are guarding the same players, so they have different responsibilities when the ball is passed up top. Again, rotate so that all players are guarding different positions and practicing closing out to all spots.

 

The final diagram shows the rotations when ball is passed to left wing.

 

 

 

This video of a free throw shooting drill is with Delta State University Head Men’s Coach Jim Boone.

The drill is a You Tube video, so to be able to watch them, you will need to be able to access You Tube on the server that you are on.

Make sure your sound is on as you watch.

In my opinion, having your players shoot for streaks is a good way to put pressure on your free throw shooters in practice.

The shooter’s goal in the drill is to make 3 in a row. After they make 3 in a row, they report to the scorekeeper

The team goal is to make 100 sets of 3 in a row in 5 minutes. If you don’t like using a set amount of time, you can give them a specific number of times to attempt three in a row. That way you could allow them to use their normal free throw routine.

Coach Boone has won almost 500 games as a college coach. This drill is from his Coaches Clinic DVD which you can find out more about and see more samples from, at this link: Jim Boone Coaches Clinic

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These two drills, Off the Block Post Drill and Up and Under Post Drill are 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.

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

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.

Even if you don’t agree with the teaching points or philosophy in the drill, it is important to work with your post players on what you want them to do if they do catch the ball off the block.

The coach in both videos is Chris Capko.

At the time the videos were filmed, he was on the USC staff. He is currently an assistant at Florida International.

Off the Block Post Drill

Up and Under Post Drill

These three skill development drills are from Coach Scott Peterman’s NBA Skill Development Playbook.

The first drill is for perimeter shooters. The other two drills are for inside players.

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Diagrams created with FastDraw

 

 

14 in 90

The shooter (2) starts in the corner.

The shooter must make two in a row to move to the next spot.

The shooter shoots from 7 spots going for 14 makes in 1:30 minutes.

You can use different spots other than the 7 in the diagram.

If you have 3 players, you can use 2 basketballs and have a rebounder and a passer.

If you have 2 players, you can use 1 basketball and have a rebounder for inside-out shots.

Blind Man Drill

The Post Player (5) stands under the front of the rim facing the basket. The coach (3/4 in black) is at the top of the key. (3/4 in white) is the rebounder.

The coach calls out the player’s name and the player turns and faces the coach. They turn opposite each time.

The coach passes the ball to the post player. The post player catches and finishes with a different hand each time.

He must immediately go up to finish with no gather/pivot.

You can also have a coach or manager give some resistance with an air dummy.

Step / Explode / Extension Drill

The post player (4) will start with the heels on the foul lane. The coach (1) will throw the ball over the basket to the other side. The post player will take a step and then explode up to get the ball.

The post player will not bring the ball below his chin. He can add a shot fake to the drill, but the drill must end with a power layup/dunk / reverse layup.

You can also have a coach or manager give some resistance with an air dummy.

This week’s eBook bundle is Coach Peterman’s NBA Skill Development Playbook and Tim Springers’ NBA Scoring Drills Playbook. You can find out more about them at this link:

NBA Skill Development/Scoring eBook Bundle Feel free to email me or call/text (317) 721-1527 if you have any questions about the eBooks