Basketball Drills

I hope this video gets you thinking about a way to incorporate the types of shots you take in your offense into this drill or into the basketball drills that you use in your program.

I like this drill because it:

1) Offers one more drill so that you have a way to get variety into your summer workouts. I think that providing variety helps keep your players interested and motivated.

2) Creates two types of pressure on the shooters–one with having to beat the time of 4 minutes and the second of having to make two shots from one spot prior to moving on to the next spot.

3) Forces concentration and effort for a sustained period of time.

I like for 30% of our shooting workouts to involve technique or form and repetition shooting, 60% to be game pace shooting drills and the remaining 10% to be for a toughness shooting drill to finish the workout. I want for the toughness shooting drill to push the player as much as I can both physically and mentally.

I would classify this drill as a technique and repetition drill. I like to have ways to score and measure all drills–including form and repetitioin.

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In my opinion, the Euro Step is a good finishing move in both transition and in the half court.

I believe that it is important for players to develop moves to finish at the basket against a good or a large (or both) defender they they have practiced and are confident in. The more confidence a player has in his or her ability and moves to finish at the basket, the more they can be the aggressor rather than being dicated to by the defense.

I have posted a couple of videos below that show a couple of ways to teach the move.

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The euro step is a good way for a player to avoid picking up a charging foul and also to get a clean look at a layup against a good defender.

In addition to working attacking the basket from straight on, I think it is important to also work on finishing coming from both the left and right side.

Even if you don’t like this move, I hope you will find what works for your players and develop a system to teach then and implement them in you scoring drills in practice and in summer workouts.

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I like skill improvement basketball drills that are competitive and or put pressure on our players while being drills we can use either during practices or during individual workouts.

I also like having many different drills to work on closing out. I feel that it is such an important part of man to man defense and needs to be drilled daily. I also feel that if you use the same drill each day, it loses effectiveness, so it is good to have a variety of drills to work on the skill of closing out.

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I personally like the idea of scoring by getting a defensive stop. That player then stays on defense and has another chance to earn a stop point. No points awarded on offense in the drill.

As with everything I send out, whether you like the drill or not, agree or disagree, I hope it gives you food for thought and inspires you to think about your basketball program and what you can do to improve.

This drill is from an older Arizona Basketball Coaching Newsletter.

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Their newsletter includes information about their program, plays, and basketball drills for coaches.

 

 

 

 

 

Start in a 4 on 4 shell seup with an extra offensive player in both corners.

Pass the ball from 1 to 2 to 3 then to the extra player in the corner.

The extra player drives as soon as he catches the ball.

 

 

Defense rotates (following your defensive rules) to stop the driver.

You can also run a different version of this drill with 5 offense vs. 7 defense and add the post player.

 

Arizona’s rule is for x1 and x2 to establish a tandem.

Their terminology is “top of the eye” and “bottom of the eye”

 

 
 

This frame shows rotations out if the ball is passed out of the trap to player #2.

Emphasizing the rotations back to the ball and to the help positions is as important in this drill as the rotations to stop the drive.

Arizona teaches X3 to swipe at the ball to make the pass out difficult.

This frame shows rotations out if the ball is passed out of the trap to player #1.

X1 and X2 have switched players. X2 is closest to the player catching the pass out and is responsible to pick up the ball.

The expectation is to sprint on the air time of the pass and all players arrive at their new positions when the ball is caught.

This drill was posted by Coach Randy Brown in FastModel’s library. The library has hundreds of plays and drills from coaches all over the world and from various levels of coaching. You can check it out here:

Fast Model Plays and Drills Library

Toughness and execution are the features of this three point close out drill. The goal is for the offensive player to get an open three point shot at the top of the key.

The defender’s mission is to take the shot away. If he is successful they play 1 on 1 until a foul, basket, or defensive stop occurs.

 

 

 

 

 

Drill starts in these positions. 1 has to start in jump circle in the back court. On “Go” X1 sprints to touch baseline and out to close out on ball.

Goal for 1 is to drive the ball just above top of key and shoot uncontested three point jump shot. X1 goal is to closeout and take away the three.
 

Rule: If shooter is open he has to shoot the three.

 

 

 
 

If X1 takes three point shot away from 1 they play 1 on 1 from top of key.

If X1 gets stop he becomes offensive player. If not 1 will again have the ball with X1 as defender.

This can be an individual drill, playing to a certain score or a team competition.

You can use this as an individual or team drill. It fosters toughness, shot selection and three point accuracy, decision making, closing out, defending and rebounding with two hands. It can add healthy peer pressure to your practices.

Randy Brown continues his passion for the game of basketball well beyond his 30+ year coaching career. An 18 year NCAA Division I head and assistant coach he knows the difficulties of coaching and assists coaches of all levels around the world to help improve our ability to teach the game of basketball the right way.

Here is a link to his site: CoachRb