Competitive Drills

Mississippi State Competitive Defense and Rebounding Drill

By Brian Williams on March 22, 2018

This competitive defense and rebounding drill is coached by Mississippi State Coach Vic Schaefer.

At the time of this post, Mississippi State will has reached the Sweet 16 as a #1 seed in their region.

They ended UConn’s record consecutive win streak at 111 in the 201 Final Four.

There is sound with the video, so please make sure that your sound is on.

The video is hosted on You Tube, so you will need to be on a network that allows you to access that site.

The video is from the Championship Productions You Tube Channel

You will want to modify the drill to defend actions that your opponents run.

I like the fact that the defenders are moving to defend more in a game-like way than many rebounding drills I have seen.

Coach Schaefer calls the drill “Auburn.”

If you are interested in learning more about the Championship Productions Basketball Coaching Video (available in both DVD and Instant Video Format) that this drill came from, you can click the following link: 40 Minutes Baseline-to-Baseline Defense

The video is 5 minutes and 38 seconds long and shows this drill for the entire clip.

Validation Competitive Basketball Shooting Drill

By Brian Williams on December 18, 2017

This video is with Emmanuel College Head Men’s Coach TJ Rosene, who is also a Director for PGC Basketball.

You can see more drills and posts from PGC Basketball by visiting their Basketball Blog

The purpose of this drill is to give you another competitive shooting drill to add to your Drill Book.

Like a game, players experience not only relying on themselves to make shots to win, but also relying on their teammate.

You need 2 pairs of players to run the drill.

The drill gets it name from the way it is played. If the first player makes the shot, the second player must make his or her shot to validate the first shot and earn a point.

If the first player misses the shot, then the other team’s first shooter will shoot.

Tweak the rules and types of shots and spots/sides of the floor to fit your needs and to add variety.

Please make sure that your sound is on and click on the video to play.

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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

Competitive Rebounding Drills

By Brian Williams on August 25, 2015

These 2 rebounding drills are from Matt Monroe’s former Hoops Roundtable site.

Matt is the Head Boys Coach at Saint Ignatius in Chicago.

Use these drills as ideas for improving the drills you use to teach and reinforce your defensive concepts and principles.

Diagrams created with FastDraw

4 on 4 Line Rebounding Drill

Brandon Bailey

Coach stands on the baseline with a basketball

Coach calls out a number and passes to one of four players on the peflmeter

Which ever number he calls, that number has to closeout and block out on the player with the basketball

(IN THIS FRAME. THE COACH HAS CALLED OUT 1, 50 1 CLOSES OUT AND BLOCKS OUT x2)

The other players have to communicate and block out the other three players

Once the offensive player catches the ball, he shoots

When the ball touches the rim, the play is live

There are no out of bounds, no fouls, and the offense doesn’t have to take the ball out

The team that scores goes to defense

The team with the most points, or is the line at the end of the drill wins

Creighton Switch Rebounding Drill

Scott Miller, Head Boys Basketball Coach, Glenbard East High School (IL)

X passes the ball to the player on the elbow

O catches and shoots the ball

The first X in each line boxes out the player at the opposite elbow

Play two on two until a team scores

Winners stay on the court, keep an overall score to make the drill competitive