Rebounding Drills

 
This drill is a part of Dallas Wings Asisstant Coach Mike Neighbors’ competitive drills packet.

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.

Rebounding is one of the fastest ways to improve your team’s chances of winning, yet it’s often the result of consistent habits rather than size alone. Great rebounding teams are built through daily repetitions that emphasize physicality, positioning, and relentless effort.

The Get 1, Get 2, Get 3 Rebounding Drill creates a competitive environment that challenges players to finish every possession against increasing pressure.

As the drill progresses, players must consistently execute the fundamentals of making contact, sealing their opponent, and pursuing the basketball with determination. If you’re looking for a drill that builds toughness, accountability, and a team-wide rebounding mindset, this is one your players will remember long after practice ends.

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.

These basketball rebounding drills are from Dallas Wings Assistant Coach Mike Neighbors.

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.

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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.