Rebounding Drills

These basketball rebounding drills are from an old University of Washington women’s Newsletter.

Coach Mike Neighbors has moved on to Arkansas.

8 Minute Rebounding

5-on-5 competitive drill where points are totalled at the end of 8 minutes.

Offense is around the perimeter behind the 3 point line. Defense must start in the key.

Offense will get 1 point for the rebound.

They can also play the rebound and score for more points.

After offense gets the ball, the play is over when offense scores or defense recovers.

Defense must rebound and transition down the court. Whatever they score at the other end is their points. If the offense recovers the ball, they do not get to transition back.

Point guard always gets back on defense in this drill. The defender of the point should go to double team whoever is the biggest threat.

 

Circle the Wagons Rebounding Drill

I think this is a good way to work on looking for someone to block out either out of a zone or from a man to man defense that traps and rotates.

Anytime your drill involves less than 5 on 5, it takes away help and congestion and forces the defenders to be more accountable.

3 on 3 drills are a good way to do that.

Today’s post involves 3 3 on 3 defensive drills from a collection put together by Nate Hill, Assistant Boys Coach at Colonel Crawford High School in North Robinson Ohio.

He has coached for 18 years from 7th grade through Varsity Head Coach.

Coach Hill has provided several drills and has been generous enough to allow me to post them on the site.

He has also started a basketball coaching newsletter.

You can see the newsletters as well as subscribe to the Newsletter at this link:

Next Level 419 Coaching Newsletters

In case you have any questions or comments for Coach Hill, here is his email address: [email protected]it

3 Player Closeouts

Drill starts with 3 defenders in a line under basket, and coach has a ball.

Coach can pass to any player.

Top man in line must find ball and close out under control with 2 high hands.

x2 and x3 must communicate and find other players.

Off ball defenders must be in help, denial, or gap positions.

After the 1st stop, top man goes to back of line, and the team must get 3 stops to get out of the drill.

Drilling the habit for players not taking the basketball to close out to their gap or denial positions (depending on your style of defense) when rotating out of a trap or a help and recover is an essential defensive fundamental skill. It is not a skill that players pick up on their own without developing the habit through repetition in the defensive fundamentals portion of practice.

3 Player Team Rebounding

3 teams of 3.

Rules: every defensive rebound = 1 point, offensive rebound go to defense.

Defense must start with 1 foot in the paint, and each defensive player must touch offense.

 

Team must secure rebound the ball inbounds.

1st team to get 3 defensive rebounds wins.

 

 

Defending Specific Actions

The following 4 frames are an example of a specific offensive actions to defend. The key is to select the movements that your opponents use in their offensive schemes. Defending the specific cuts and screens that your toughest opponents run throughout your entire season of practices is more effective than only working on those movements the night before you play.

Having the offense run specific sequences helps to make your 3 on 3 drills more gamelike and less like a summer 3 on 3 tournament.

Come up with your own list of what you need to defend for the teams on your schedule and work on defending them with your defensive rules. The following four frames are a place to start.

Flex action: back screen, down screen.             Down screen, cross screen. 1 down screens first, then screens for 3.

Princeton Action: Backscreen / flare screen       Princeton Action: Flare screen

This video is a competitive 2 on 2 rebounding drill used by Steve Alford when he was Head Basketball Coach at New Mexico. He is currently the Head Coach for the men’s team at Nevada.

This is a drill that he likes to use almost daily.

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

The video is a You Tube video.

If you are interested in more information about the DVD that this sample came from. click here: All Access Basketball Practice with Steve Alford

 

 

Steve Alford Rebounding Drill

There are links to more basketball drills below this post.

If you are interested in more information about the DVD that this sample came from. click here: All Access Basketball Practice with Steve Alford

This drill was detailed by Coach Randy Brown.

Randy has continued 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.

Check out Randy’s site: www.coachrb.com

This post player skill development drill is posted on the Fast Model Play of the Day Site. Click on the link to check out a lot of other great drills and plays!

 
 

 

This drill starts with three perimeter players and 5 with the ball 10 feet from the backboard. X4 starts on 5’s back to create contact on the rebound. 5 underhand tosses the ball off the backboard the attacks the ball with two hands as X4 creates contact on his back.

After rebound 5 throws outlet pass to 1 on wing.

 

On pass from 1 to 2, X4 has to touch baseline before defending 5. 5 takes post up to the defender and seals him. If open, 2 passes to 5 who catches and gets shot inside.

 

 

If 5 is not open 2 passes to 3 on left wing. On the pass defender has to touch baseline before defending 5. 5 again takes post up to defender for seal, catch and score.

Drill can be run from left block to right, or right to left.

This rebounding drill is from University of Arkansas women’s coach Mike Neighbors.

If you would like to subscribe to his newsletter, email me and I will forward your interest on to Coach Neighbors

This rebounding drill and the philosophies incorporated are taken from what Tom Izzo has done at Michigan State

 

 

 

 

 

Hit and Git

We start the drill with three offensive players outside the 3 point arc.

Defensive players are in their GAP positions. Coach passes to one player who attempts shot…

Defensive players must HIT then GIT the rebound
before the ball bounces on the floor. Initially we don’t allow offense to crash.

When we go live and allow offense to crash, one of the offensive player at the top of the key is not allowed to rebound and the free X player has LOGO area responsibility.

This helps simulate teams with a player back in transition Can build up to 4 or 5 by adding a post player on the block to work on wedging out!!!

POINTS OF EMPHASIS

Starting the players in their GAP positions is more game-like than having them hugged up on defense.
There are three perimeter techniques each player should work on:

1) blocking out a shooter
2) blocking out on the ballside (not allowing a player a free run at the board)
3) wedging out on the weakside (not getting pushed too far under the basket on weakside)

Our HIT terminology refers to us making a solid, aggressive HIT on every offensive rebounder. In five years of using this technique we have been called for exactly ZERO fouls for being overly aggressive.

GIT is really GET, but since my players make fun of my accent its become GIT and has stuck. GIT the ball is something that I don’t feel most coaches drill enough. Going for the ball can be instinctual but it can also be learned and if you emphasize/ reward it you’ll have a great rebounding team.

Make it competitive by assigning points for each time the ball hits the floor on a rebound to each team.

When going live go plus and minus for offensive and defensive rebounds.