Basketball Drills

Basketball Drills: Get 1, Get 2, Get 3 Rebounding

By Brian Williams on May 6, 2015

This drill is a part of Arkansas Women’s Coach Mike Neigbors competitive drills packet.

He updates and sends out the packet from time to time in his newsletter.

His basketball coaching newsletter is one of the oldest and best around.

If you are interested in joining his distribution list, email me and I will pass your email address along to him.

This drill is used in his college women’s program, but can be tweaked to fit the resources and personnel that you have available in your coaching situation.

Get One, Get Two, Get Three Rebounding Drill

We use our men’s practice team as the offensive rebounder in this drill.

If you don’t have a full team of men’s players, borrow a JV player from them for a drill. Worst case scenario pick your own best offensive rebounder (or two) and incentivize the drill for them somehow.

Line up the rest of your team.

The offensive rebounder has a football blocking pad in one hand.

The defender will HIT the pad.

The defensive rebounder must keep the offensive player from re-bounding the miss.

If the offensive player can get the ball with a pad in one hand the defensive player must go again.

We have ten players, so we put 8:00 on the clock.

The entire team must get a rebound versus the offense to complete the GET ONE.

After we complete GET ONE, we add a 2nd offensive rebounder. Now your team must GET TWO in a row before we rotate. Again, we go through the entire team.

Then we add a 3rd… Now we must GET 3 in a row to complete the drill.

If we can do that in 8:00 we have done a pretty good job.

Keys to this drill:
1) Create realistic misses
2) Demand HIT/GIT techniques
3) Create atmosphere of toughness

Here is a link to Coach Neighbors HIT/GIT rebounding technique: Hit and “Git” Rebounding

Once you consistently GET THREE, try to GET 4… We have yet to accomplish it in 8:00 but creates a ceiling to shoot for after the GET 3 becomes routine.

Basketball Drills One on One Moves

By Brian Williams on May 1, 2015

Here are some ideas for moves to include in your players’ spring and summer improvement season workouts.

These 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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Opposite Foot Crossover

Fake Baseline Pullout Reverse

Inside Pivot One on One Moves

Basketball Drills 1 vs 2 Post Double Pass Out

By Brian Williams on April 29, 2015

This drill was contributed toFast Model Sports Basketball Drills and Plays Library by Drew Hanlen, an NBA Strategic Skills Coach & Consultant that has helped over 25 NBA and NBA pre-draft players.

Drew is an NBA Strategic Skills Coach & Consultant that has helped over 25 NBA and NBA pre-draft players including David Lee (Warriors) and Bradley Beal (Wizards). Drew is the Head Skills Coach for Pure Sweat Basketball. He has run his internationally renowned Elite Skills Clinics in over 30 states and 4 countries over the past four years. He is also the Head Skills Coach for the Reebok Breakout Challenge and has worked various events for Nike Basketball.

This drill is great for post players because it works on the following:

-Establishing position
-Scoring if you get a deep catch
-Reading the nail defender
-Escaping double teams
-Passing out of traps
-Flashing from weak-to-strong side
-Scoring in a 1v1 situation

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Coach will make a post entry to the offensive player. As soon as the coach makes the post entry, the defender that is guarding the coach will sprint and touch the elbow, then sprint to double the offensive player.

On the catch, the offensive post player can attack right away before the double comes. If the offensive player is unable to score quickly before the double comes, they must retreat dribble out of the double team and complete a skip pass to the coach located on the weak-side wing.

After skipping the ball, the doubling defender will step off, while the offensive post will fight across the lane to re-establish position on the opposite block.

The coach with the ball will pass the ball to the offensive player whenever they call for it. On the catch, players will play live 1v1.

If the offensive player scores, they will stay on offense and the doubling defender will become the defender, while the defender that just got scored on will become the doubling defender. If the defender gets a stop, they will move to offense and the offensive player will become the doubling defender, while the doubling defender will become the defender.

Post Player Skill Development Drills

By Brian Williams on April 22, 2015

Today’s post includes five ideas for drills to use in the spring and summer with any of your players that you count on to score in the low post area.

Or, you can file them and save them to use in your skill breakdown drills during practice next season.

I found the drills on an old Xavier University newsletter.

You can see the archives of all of their old basketball coaching newsletters at this link: Xavier Newsletter Archives

If you can’t use the exact drills, hopefully you can modify them to fit your needs.

There are some other links to other skill development drills in the Related Links at the end of the post.

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Perfect Form Jump Hook

Post Player 1 cuts from the wing and receives a pass from a coach at SPOT 1.

The post player must shoot a perfect jump shot, rebound. and pass back to the coach.

Repeat at SPOTS 2, 3 and 4.

Post Move Rundown

Post Player 1 begins on the weak side block and flashes hard across the key to the ball side block.

Post player calls for the ball and gets a pass from the coach

Post Player then must execute one of the following moves, then pass back out to the coach and cut again to the opposite side.

1) Jump Hook 2) Drop Step 3) Turn around J 4) Up and Under. After 4 shots rotate to another player.

Bump and Roll Shooting

Post Player 4 cuts across the lane and bumps into Post Player 5.

4 must roll or pivot off of the contact to an open area.

At that point he must catch a pass from the coach, make a move or take a jumper.

Rotate players after each shot.

Continuous Sealing

Once Post Player I has a seal on Post Player 2, the ball is passed from one coach to the other.

Post Player 1 must reseal, and hold the seal the entire time. After 5 passes. the coach can feed the post.

Post Sealing Dril

Have two coaches on either foul line extended, and two post players on both blocks.

The ball side post player will go after the off side post, attempting to seal him by putting his lead leg between the legs of the defender.

When he has sealed player 2, player 1 must call for the ball.

When the ball is reversed, player 2 goes after Player 1 trying to seal.

When sealed, he calls for the ball.

The coach enters the ball to player 2 who catches and makes a scoring move.

Basketball Drills Fatigue Shooting

By Brian Williams on April 14, 2015

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

This drill is a good “gut-buster” to use at the end of a shooting workout. It is physically demanding. It also forces players to shoot under the pressure of making three in a row. Having to make consecutive shots to complete a drill is one of the best ways to put mental pressure on a shooter.

Matthew Graves is the Head Coach at Indiana State. He was an Assistant to Brad Stevens and a player at Butler prior to taking the job at South Alabama. Coach Graves was the top assistant for both Championship game runs that Butler made in 2010 and 2011. He is currently serving as an assistant at Xavier.

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Basketball Drills Nuggets Fatigue Shooting Drill

Depending on the needs of your program, you could shoot closer shots or require only two consecutive makes then build up to three consecutive made three point shots.

Note: At the end of the video, Coach Graves says that the goal is to complete the drill in 30 minutes. What he meant to say (and did say at the start of the video) is the goal is to complete it by shooting less than 30 shots.

Basketball Drills 2v1 Continuous Box Transition

By Brian Williams on April 8, 2015

This transition drill is from Drew Hanlen’s Transition Drill Book.

Drew is an NBA Strategic Skills Coach & Consultant that has helped over 25 NBA and NBA pre-draft players.

Drew is the Head Skills Coach for Pure Sweat Basketball.

He has run his internationally renowned Elite Skills Clinics in over 30 states and 4 countries over the past several years.

2v1 Continuous Box Drill

Players will be divided into two teams. One player from the Red Team will start in the paint on defense and another player from the Red Team will start on the angle, as an outlet.

Two players from the Black Team will start at half-court with the basketball.

Behind them will be two players from the Red Team. Behind them will be two players from the Black Team. You can have as many teams of two as you want, but make sure there are an even amount of Black Team groups and Red Team groups.

Offensive players will attack the defender and try to score in the 2v1 situation. Offensive players are allowed two passes to attempt a shot. One shot per possession.

Offensive player that shoots (or turns the ball over) must sprint and touch inside the center circle, and then sprint back on defense, while the defender must secure the rebound or get the made field goal out of the net and then outlet the basketball to their teammate at the angle.

If the defender gets a steal, they can quickly outlet the basketball to their teammate at the angle as well. As soon as the player receives the outlet, they will advance the basketball to their teammates that are ready to attack at half-court. The offensive player that did not shoot will rotate to the outlet line at the angle.

Continue this rotation until one of the teams scores 12 baskets.