I hope this video gets you thinking about ways to make your ballhandling drills more competitive.

I think it is important to find ways t0 make your ballhandling drills competitive by using some type of scoring system.

I like to have a standard for players to compete against as opposed to competing against each other.

I have posted some links to some other skill development drills below the video. Some of the drills are team drills and others are individual workout drills.

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The video below features current Louisville and former Xavier Men’s Coach Chris Mack teaching one of the key drills to their packline style man to man defense.

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Chris Mack: Drills to Build the Pack Line Defense

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These basketball shooting drills are from the Xavier Men’s Basketball Newsletter.

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Xavier Newsletter Archives

32s Shooting Drill

From: Xavier Assistant Coach James Whitford

32s is a shooting dnll incorporating 15 shots finished up with 2 FT’s at the end.
We will shoot from 5 beginning spots.

3 shots will be attempted from each spot.

1st shot-drive to the basket to finish I point
2nd shot is a 15 ft. spot up jumper 2 points
3rd shot is from beyond arc 3 points

This is repeated at all five spots for a maximum total of 30 points. Shooter finishes the drill with a I and 1 FT oppotunity. each worth 1 point. Giving you a total of 32.

This can be varied for TIME/MAKES and by adding defense.

Can be done easily as a team drill with each shooter attempting the series of shots before moving to the next spot.

You can then total a team score as well as individual.

Our players like to do this on game days to reach a TEAM GOAL. Then they prefer to compete head-to- head in practice situations.

The current champion gets to keep until dethroned,

I have never seen a 32 in my coaching career.

One 31… shooter missed the second end of me 1 and 1!!!

Move Shooting Drill

“MOVE” is another basic drill with a number of variations to allow it to be a single player drill or a team drill.

Using our 5 Spots (left corner, left wing ,top, righ wing, right corner)

Shooter begins in left corner and stays until they score a total of 6 points:

15 footer = 2 points
19’9″ + = 3 points
Lay-up = 1 point

A Lay-up can only be attempted when the shooter needs 1 point to achieve their desired score.

EXAMPLE SCORING:
First shooter makes a 2 point, next shooter misses, next shooter makes a 3, team has a total of 5 SO next shooter is allowed to drive it for a lay-up to achieve the score of 6.

At the next spot the first shooter makes a 3, the next shooter makes a 3… we MOVE

Player completes six points at each spot

Now we go 8 points. Then 10 points. Then 12 points. Etc

This drill can be done for a certain amount of time. For example, put 5:00 on clock and see how many spots a shooter can complete. It can also be done just as a simple goal based drill.

When shooting in groups, this drill is great to teach time/score situations as in “knowing”what you need to achieve the MOVE.

It creates a very competitive drill when going on both ends with each team equally divided. We shoot in classes, by position, allow them to pick teams, etc.

This basketball drill to work on both trapping the basketball and passing out of a trap is being demonstrated by Keith Dambrot, Head Coach at Duquesne.

In the video, Coach Dambrot credits Shaka Smart as the coach he learned the drill from.

If you like to make your drills competitive, one way to make this drill competitive is to score deflections and turnovers.

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The Circle Trap drill can be used by college teams all the way down to youth camps and clinics to teach passing skills.

I have a list of links below to other skill development drills that are posted on the site.

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

This basketball shooting drill is a competitive basketball workout drill where players compete in teams of two against other teams of two or against a set standard.

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This drill does not have to be used for 3 point shots and you don’t have to shoot from only these two spots. You can adjust depending on your player’s abilities and to add some variety.
The thing I do like is that by scroring it in teams of twos, it forces the rebounder to hustle and be an important part of the pair’s success.

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These basketball shooting drills are from an archived Xavier Men’s Basketball Newsletter.

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I am posting the drills as they were developed for a top Division I program. My purpose is to give you something new to adapt to fit the needs of your players and program. To me, summer skill workouts are huge to the success of a basketball program. Keeping players motivated with competitive drills that have standards to meet is the best way to motivate players to work at their games in a meaningful way.

3-6-9 Shooting

Best drill for separating SHOOTERS.

Begin with “3”.

Player starts behind cone at half.court

Player comes running ful speed at CONE 1 to attempt shot #1. As soon as his feet hit the ground he is sprinting toward CONE #2 to attempt shot #2. Repeat to CONE #3

If the shooter makes all three shots he is done with his 3… however if he makes less than three he must spnnt back around the cone at the half court line and repeat the above until he makes a total of 3 shots

Now go for “6.” Repeat the same above pattern. As an added incentive when shooting anything above a “3,” if the shooters makes all three shots in the sequence but has yet to reach their total goal I. they do not have to sprint back around the hatfcourt cone.

Onty your best shooters will make it to 12s!!

With your best shooters add this–after they begin to lose interest. Put a cone at the opposite baseline, one at top of the opposite key. and one at half court. Use these cones in this manner .. If they go 0-3. they go around cone on opposite baseline. If they go 1-3 they around cone at top of the key If they make 2-3 they go to half-court.

This also places importance on MAKING SHOTS!I!

W Shooting Drill

Another way we want to simulate game shots, at game spots, at game speed.

SERIES 1: Shooter starts at the left side of half court, runs to the left corner inside the arc. A shot is taken then the player spnnts to the half-court line (use cones early on at half-court to show them where to go). the shooter continues this W pattern until they have attempted shots from aN five spots.

SERIES 2: Shot #8 to #10 are sprints to half court then back to wing (or a 3, back to half court and continue