I like drills that develop the habit of having to make multiple efforts.
Most teams give second efforts, but I believe that the best teams give third, fourth, and fifth efforts.
This multiple effort basketball drill comes from veteran high school head coach and Pittsburgh Assistant Coach, Kevin Sutton.
Coach Sutton also spent time on the George Washington and Georgetown staff.
It is a part of the Ultimate Skill Package collaboration between Coach Sutton and Coach Scott Peterman.
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Player makes a dribble move and attacks the rim.
Then must immediately sprint to intercept the pass from the coach
Use various finishing moves.
Player then attacks the elbow for a pull up jump shot
Player then closes out to the cone/chair at the elbow.
Then does a defensive slide to the corner with his back to the basket.
Then takes a shot off of the cone/chair with a ball placed on it.
Finally, the player races back towards half court to receive the pass back from the coach.
This multiple effort basketball drill comes from veteran high school head coach and Pittsburgh Assistant Coach, Kevin Sutton.
Coach Sutton also spent time on the George Washington and Georgetown staff.
It is a part of the Ultimate Skill Package collaboration between Coach Sutton and Coach Scott Peterman.
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Basketball Drills 2 on 2 Deny and Grind Drill
This drill came from Drew Hanlen.
Drew is an NBA Strategic Skills Coach & Consultant that has helped over 25 NBA and NBA pre-draft players.
He 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.
The drills was posted on Fast Model Sports Library. It is a reference of thousands of plays and drills that have been submitted by coaches all around the world. You can take a look at it’s content at this link
Team 1 plays live 2v2 against Team 2.
Team 1 gets three passes to score.
Players get three dribbles max each time they have possession of the ball.
Team 2 takes the ball out, regardless if they get a stop or get scored on and inbounds the ball to Team 3, who will be face-guarded by Team 1. Team 3 must catch the ball in front of Team 1. No over-top passes. If Team 1 gets a steal on an inbounds pass or a 5 second call, they are awarded 5 points. If they get a 5 second call, they get the ball and get to transition against Team 3, who loses their offensive possession. If they get a steal, they can try to covert against Team 3. If they score, Team 2 takes out the ball and again tries to inbound the ball to Team 3. If they get stopped, Team 3 just takes off and plays full-court 2v2 against Team 1.
As soon as Team 3 successfully receives the inbounds pass (or stops Team 1 if they stole the inbounds pass and played live), they play full-court 2v2 against Team 1. No over-top passes until the handler gets passed half-court. After Team 2 scores or gets stopped, Team 1 will inbounds the ball to Team 4, while Team 2 denies. Drill continues. Continuous 2v2 full-court with inbounds denial.
2pts for a made 2pt FG, 3pts for a made 3pt FG, 5pts for a 5sec call or steal on an inbounds pass.
Post Player Skill Drills
These two post play drills are from Coach Scott Peterman.
Both drills are overload drills.
In the second drill, the post player is working to score against two defenders.
Anytime you have an offensive player going against two defenders in practice, it is important to emphasize the purpose of the drill is making it tougher than a game.
If you can score against two defenders in practice, you can score against one in a game. However, if you are double teamed in a game, find the open player rather than attacking two.
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The idea of this drill is to get as many shots as possible and practice scoring, never shooting the same shot twice in a row.
No dunks.
Quick Score Drill
How it starts: Three passers (1), each have a ball.
The wing passers are low in the corner and one passer at the top of the key.
The post player will rebound makes and pass the ball out. It isn’t a post-up drill. We are just looking to score.
One coach will stands behind the post player and points to the passer where he wants to have the ball come from. The coach will point and the other two will fake the pass. It will require the post player to be on his “toes”.
1 on 2 Post Play / Build Toughness
1 on 2 post play is where you have one offensive player and two defensive players.
The offensive post player (4) can’t leave the lane or go higher than the mid-line post area.
You play to 7. If you score then you go to the end of the line. You must stay in until you score or get fouled.
The game is about finishing, building toughness, and quickness. It makes them play quickly.
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Basketball Drills 3 on 1 Defensive Rotations
I found this drill on the Jes-Basketball.com There are several other plays and drills on that site.
The drill was submitted by Ryan Shaw
Adapt this drill to your defensive rules, principles, and the types of actions that you have to defend against.
3 gives a skip pass to 1.
D1 closes out and defends 1 by cutting off the baseline drive.
1 passes up top to 2 who tries to penetrate toward the middle and D1 shows help and makes 2 pick up the ball.
2 kicks to 3 and D1 jumps to position away from the ball.
3 penetrates baseline and D1 stops him outside the lane.
Basketball Drills Three Player Shooting with Conditions
This basketball shooting drill is from former Arizona and Iowa State assistant coach Randy Brown.
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The drill in the video is a way to apply principles from the cutthroat drill to a shooting drill where the real emphasis is making a high volume of game-like shots.
The drill forces the players to concentrate rather than just simply go through the motions of the drill.
Some ways to make the drill fit your program:
Make your conditions fit your offensive system, add another player and require an extra pass or a ball screen, add a time condition for each group, or keep an overall score to make the drill competitive.
I hope the drill in the video gives you some ideas for conditions that will be considered turnovers in your shooting drills to improve your player’s execution.
Randy uses the first 90 seconds to set up the drill and then gives a demonstration for the remainder of the four-and-a-half-minute video.
Basketball Drills Get Open Drill
This drill came from Drew Hanlen. He 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 four years.
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Get open Drill
This is a great drill to work on screening, using screens, passing and catching!
Ball handler will start with the ball at the top of the key and will be pressured by an on-ball defender, while another offensive player will start under the rim with a defender in full denial. Two all-time screeners will start just outside each second hash mark.
Offensive player under the rim will try to free themselves from their defender by using the screeners in any way that they want (curl, pop, fade, wiggle, etc), while their defender will try to deny them from receiving a pass from the ball handler.
If the offensive player frees themselves from their defender, the ball handler will complete a pass to them.
After passing the ball, the original ball handler will make a basket cut to the rim, while the offensive player that received the ball will dribble the ball to the top of the key.
The offensive team will try to complete eight catches in a row, while the defenders try to get a steal or force a turnover. Ball handler can be called for a five-second violation.
If the offensive players successfully complete eight catches in a row, they will become the next screeners, the defenders will stay on defense and the screeners will move to offense. If the defenders get a steal or force a turnover, they will become the next screeners, the offensive players will move to defense and the screeners will move to offense.
