Basketball Drills

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.

Make sure your sound is on as you watch. Click the play arrow to see the video..

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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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 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.

You can get a free two week trial for Skill Development Coach. Text Coaching Toolbox to the number 31996 for a 2 week free trial.

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

Basketball Drills with Shaka Smart

By Brian Williams on September 8, 2015

These drills were filmed when current Texas men’s coach Shaka Smart was at VCU

The drills are You Tube videos, so to be able to watch them, you will need to be able to access You Tube.

The first drill is a shooting drill and the second one is a rebounding/inside toughness drill.

Make sure your sound is on as you watch.

Click the play arrow below to see the drills.

If you are interested in learning more about the 2 DVD set that this drill came from, use this link:
Shaka Smart’s 2013 Basketball Coaches Clinic

30 Baskets Shooting Drill

Circle Trap

This final drill is with Akron Coach Keith Dambrot who credits Shaka Smart in the video.

Dambrot and Smart were assistants on the Akron staff together.

Make sure your sound is on. The video is three and a half minutes long.

Click the play arrow to watch the video.

If you are interested in more information about the DVD that this sample came from. click here: Fundamental Drills That Build Champions

Post Player Development Drills

The first two and a half minutes are a drill to work on going strong after offensive rebounds. At about two and a half minutes, the drill changes to making an aggressive duck in.

If you are interested in finding out more about the DVD that this rebounding drill comes from, you can use this link:

All Access Basketball Practice with Shaka Smart – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

Basketball Drills: Competitive 31

By Brian Williams on September 2, 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 Fabian McKenzie, Cape Breton University Women’s Basketball.

He has been a head coach at the university level for 16 years, and has been involved as a coach at this level for 20 years.

He has been involved with the Canadian Women’s National team program for the past 8 years.

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

“31”

Players line up as shown. First player in each line has ball

When coach blows whistle they head to basket and take a choice of shots.

3 pt shot = 3
Inside 3 but outside paint = 2
Layup = 1

They get one shot attempt. If they make it they collect the points for their team.

If they miss they must rebound and get ball to next teammate.

This is a continuous action drill

Our only rule is that your next pass to a teammate must be received on the same side of half court.

In this example, 2’s pass is good. 4’s is illegal and they must go back to opposite side of half before attempting shot at other end.

You could also deduct a point for the infraction.

Drill continues until a team reaches a score of 31