Basketball Drills

John Beilein 4 Man Cover Drill

By Brian Williams on November 15, 2015

These diagrams represent principles presented by John Beilein at the Basketball Caoches Association of Michigan coaches Clinic.

The drill is a featured post in the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.

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

My goal for all posts is not that you necessarily use the drill exactly as presented, but that it gives you some ideas on ways to make what you are doing more efficient and effective.

Drill starts with a Free Throw. In the diagram X4 is the free throw shooter. See the positioning of the other “X”players.

If the free throw is missed, the player “4” rebounds the ball and it is passed down the floor for a layup as quickly as possible.

Once 3 shoots the layup, every other player from the rebounding team has to touch the lane, then sprint back to stop the ball in conversion from the “X” team and protect the lane. Coach outlets the ball to x1 to begin the conversion portion of the drill.

Basketball Shooting Drills Magic Shooting

By Brian Williams on November 6, 2015

This drill called Magic Shooting and 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.

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

Players must make 5 shots from 5 spots in 2 minutes.

You can adjust the spots, the number of makes required at each spot, and how long you give your players to make the specified amount of shots.

Another idea for this drill is to have teams of 3 at each of your available practice baskets.

Have each of the three players shoot for 2 minutes and see which group of 3 gets the highest score.

Magic Shooting Drill

Advanced Shooting Drill

This shooting drill is one that you can use if you need something to challenge your top shooters, or you can also use it to modify so that you can use it with all of your players.

Basketball Drills: Tennessee Rebounding Drills

By Brian Williams on October 23, 2015

These rebounding drills are with former Tennessee’s women’s coach Holly Warlick

These are You Tube videos, so you will need to be able to view You Tube videos on the server you are on. At times schools will block You Tube.

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I like the idea of having the rebounding team look to push the ball on offense after securing the rebound to make your rebounding drills more game-like.

If you are interested in learning more about the entire DVD that this sample came from, click this link: Competitive Rebounding, Defense & Transition Drills . Anyone who purchases anything from the store receives one of my basketball coaching eBooks as a bonus. Just email me and let me know which one you would like to receive!

Numbers Rebounding Drill

5 offensive rebounders outside the three point arc. They are numbered 1 through 5.

3 defenders with 10 toes in the paint.

Coach calls 3 numbers and those 3 numbers from the perimeter offensive rebounders crash the offensive glass.

Scoring system is

1 point for a defensive rebound and a dribble to half court in 2 seconds
2 points for an offensive rebound, if they score the offensive rebound, it is another two points
1 bonus point for 3 rebounds in a row

Play to 10 with the same groups on offense and defense until one team wins.

To start the drill, keep the offense stationary, to make the drill more challenging, have the offense move before the assistant coach calls a number.

Lane One on One

By Brian Williams on October 9, 2015

This drill called “Lane Line Ball Pressure Drill” and 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.

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The Coach in the video is Brian Baudinet, currently the Head Men’s Coach at Chatham University.

The drill can be modified to fit your needs so that it becomes your own and used during your fall skill development workouts (where those are available) or can be used in practices this coming season as well. You could change the restricted area, change the scoring, change the length that the dribbler must attain, change the number of seconds the dribbler has, or make any other changes to fit your players and your philosophy.

Like every other drill, the teaching points in the video, or that you use when you run the drill, for both the offense and the defense are what determine the effectiveness of the drills in helping your players improve.

If you have 3 or 4 players in the drill, you can have the winner of each rep stay and the loser goes to the back of the line. You can also make it a ball toughness drill by having a coach or manager be the defender and allowed to use their hands (within reason) or a blocking pad to overload the dribbler.

To score a point in the drill, the defensive player must keep the offensive player from getting to the free throw line, staying with the lane lines, in 4 seconds.

Lane Line Ball Pressure Drill

Basketball Drills: Tiger Passing

By on October 6, 2015

This competitive scoring 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

This drill was contributed by Coach Lason Perkins. He has worked at the high school, college, and semi-pro level for over 20 years.

He has also created over 20 instructional DVDs and 5 books on basketball offenses.

He has built a reputation for being an expert on international offenses and styles of play.

Tiger Passing is a drill that can be used to work on passing, cutting, and being strong with the basketball.

For teams that like to run Open Post offense, it also works on the offensive concepts.

If the setup for the drill does not fit your needs, tweak the version you run so that it does.

Line in each corner, cones are coaches/managers with blocking pads. to pressure receivers: Pass and cut, catch and face, cut to the rim.

Cutter must sprint to fill the 5 spots (corner, wing, top). Basket cut must be made all the way to the rim.

First player in line steps onto the court when the corner spot opens.

Can run for designated number of passes or for time. Also works as a conditioner.

Coaching Basketball: Individual Skill Development

By Brian Williams on October 2, 2015

These four videos are with Coach Rich Walton and from his Skill Development Coach program. The program breaks down skills into a table that is patterned after the Periodic Table of Elements.

If you are interested in the program for coaches, you can find out more at this link: Coaches

There is also a program for Skills Trainers: Basketball Skill Trainers

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Reverse Jump Stop to Turnaround

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The reverse jump stops allows the player to use either foot as a pivot foot.

Opposite Foot Crossover

This move allows players to create space either for a shot, or to set up another dribble move.

Fake Baseline Pullout Reverse

A second move to beat a defender who has shut off a baseline drive.

Inside Pivot One on One Moves

This video has several variations of moves using an inside pivot.

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If you are interested in the program for coaches, you can find out more at this link: Coaches