Rebounding Drills

These two competitive rebounding drills drills were posted by Winning Hoops.

You can see their You Tube channel at this link: Winning Hoops You Tube Channel

The videos feature Kim Barnes Arico, head women’s basketball coach at the University of Michigan, at the 2014 Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan Coaches Clinic in Lansing, Michigan.

Rebounding and Finishing Drill

Rebounding Toughness Drill

This is a 2-on-2 drill. Split your players into two teams and put 4 minutes on the clock. Each group goes for 45 seconds at a time. The ball is dead if it hits the ground. The losing team runs sprints. You will want to change the rules to fit your needs.

These rebounding drills are with former Tennessee’s women’s coach Holly Warlick

These are You Tube videos, so you will need to be able to view You Tube videos on the server you are on. At times schools will block You Tube.

Make sure your sound is on as you watch. Click the play arrow to see the video..

I like the idea of having the rebounding team look to push the ball on offense after securing the rebound to make your rebounding drills more game-like.

If you are interested in learning more about the entire DVD that this sample came from, click this link: Competitive Rebounding, Defense & Transition Drills . Anyone who purchases anything from the store receives one of my basketball coaching eBooks as a bonus. Just email me and let me know which one you would like to receive!

Numbers Rebounding Drill

5 offensive rebounders outside the three point arc. They are numbered 1 through 5.

3 defenders with 10 toes in the paint.

Coach calls 3 numbers and those 3 numbers from the perimeter offensive rebounders crash the offensive glass.

Scoring system is

1 point for a defensive rebound and a dribble to half court in 2 seconds
2 points for an offensive rebound, if they score the offensive rebound, it is another two points
1 bonus point for 3 rebounds in a row

Play to 10 with the same groups on offense and defense until one team wins.

To start the drill, keep the offense stationary, to make the drill more challenging, have the offense move before the assistant coach calls a number.

If you are interested in learning more about the entire DVD that this sample came from, click this link: Competitive Rebounding, Defense & Transition Drills . Anyone who purchases anything from the store receives one of my basketball coaching eBooks as a bonus. Just email me and let me know which one you would like to receive!

This drill was contributed to The Fast Model Sports Basketball Drills and Plays Library by Drew Hanlen, an NBA Strategic Skills Coach & Consultant.

He has helped over 25 NBA and NBA pre-draft players including David Lee (Mavericks) and Bradley Beal (Wizards).

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 for several years.

He is also the Head Skills Coach for the Reebok Breakout Challenge and has worked various events for Nike Basketball.

1 vs. 2 Rebounding Drill

This is a great drill to get your players to box out on defense and crash and avoid box outs on offense. Too many rebounding drills benefit the taller players and don’t truly reward players for boxing out or getting around box outs, so this drill is perfect to reward pursuit effort.

Coach will shoot the ball. On the flight of the shot, both defenders will sprint to box out the offensive player, while the offensive player will try to get around the block outs and pursue the offensive rebound.

Defenders do not pursue the rebound. Instead, they continue to box out and try to keep the offensive player from touching the rebound before the ball bounces twice. If the rebound bounces twice before the offensive player touches the ball, the defensive team gets one point. If the offensive player touches the ball in the air, the offensive team gets two points. If the offensive player touches the ball after one bounce, the offensive team gets one point. If the offensive player rebounds the ball in the air and finishes a put-back, the offensive team gets three points.

Both teams play offense for two minutes then defense for two minutes. Team with most points at the end of four minutes wins.

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.

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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.