Shooting Drills

Basketball Drills: Fast Break Shooting Drills

By Brian Williams on December 8, 2015

Another outstanding contribution from Nate Hill. Coach Hill is the Assistant Boys Coach at Colonel Crawford High School in North Robinson, Ohio. I appreciate all the ideas you send out for the coaching community!

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

You can also find him on Twitter @coachnatehill

We get conditioning – 6 – 12 trips up and down the floor

We get game shots – rim runs, transition layups or pullups, post entry, and pick and roll work

We can use side baskets if we have lots of players.

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DO ALL DRILLS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE COURT

Kevin Love Outlet:

Post rebounds and throws Kevin Love outlet to guard for layup

Rim Run:

Coach inbounds to guard

Post rim runs

1 hits post for layup

Throw Ahead

Coach inbounds to guard,

Guard passes ahead to coach

Post rim runs.

Coach hits guard for 3.

Throw ahead, post scores

Coach inbounds to guard

Guard throws ahead to coach

Coach enters to post

Drag Screen Guard Scores

Post outlets to 1

Post sets a DRAG screen for Guard.

Guard can shoot it or drive it.

Drag screen post scores

Post inbounds to Guard,

Sets DRAG screen,

Guard hits post on the roll

Combination Guard Scoring Drill

By Brian Williams on December 3, 2015

This drill called Combination Guard Scoring Drill is among the thousands of resources for both coaches and player available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as basketball coaching resource articles.

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

Click the play arrow so see the drill. The drill is a YouTube video, so you will need to be able to access YouTube to see the drill.

The coach in this post is Darnell Archey, former Butler player and Assistant Coach, and currently the head coach at the University of Mobile.

If you use this drill, you will want to include the types of actions that lead to shots in your offensive system.

In this drill, the 3 types of shots the players take are

1) Ball Screen Read (You can change the read for each of the five shots, or make the same read on each shot. In this example, they are reading as though the defense is icing the ball screen.

2) Dribble Hand Off

3) Screen the screener action (You can run this from other spots on the floor where you run sts actions)

15 shots on the right side (5 shots from each of the 3 actions), then 2 free throws, and 15 shots on the left side of the floor.

Combination Guard Scoring Drill

Basketball Drills: Hornacek Shooting

By Brian Williams on November 24, 2015

This shooting drill is from Matt Monroe’s former Hoops Roundtable site.

Modify this drill to fit what types of shots you get from your offense and that fit the shots that your players take in games including adding in 3 point shots to the drill.

You could add an element of a time limit or change the scoring so that the rebounder and the shooter are scored together as a team and competing against other two player teams or against a scoring standard.

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The following is from Jim Harrington, former Head Boys Basketball Coach, Elgin High School:

Hornacek Shooting Drill

1.) Shooter starts at right elbow and attempts a shot

2.) After 1st shot, they V-cut to the corner for a second shot

3.) After the second shot, they sprint past the three point line and comes back in for a lay-up

4.) Repeat the same procedure on the left side

5.) Play to 50 points and increase it as the season progresses
• Shots 1-2-4-5 (jump shots) are worth 5 points
• Shots 3 and 6 (lay-ups) are worth 2 points

6.) it is a continuous shooting and moving drill that is good for conditioning

Basketball Shooting Drills Magic Shooting

By Brian Williams on November 6, 2015

This drill called Magic Shooting and is among the thousands of resources for both coaches and player available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as basketball coaching resource articles.

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

Click the play arrow to see the drill.

The drill is a YouTube video, so you will need to be able to access YouTube to see the drill.

Players must make 5 shots from 5 spots in 2 minutes.

You can adjust the spots, the number of makes required at each spot, and how long you give your players to make the specified amount of shots.

Another idea for this drill is to have teams of 3 at each of your available practice baskets.

Have each of the three players shoot for 2 minutes and see which group of 3 gets the highest score.

Magic Shooting Drill

Advanced Shooting Drill

This shooting drill is one that you can use if you need something to challenge your top shooters, or you can also use it to modify so that you can use it with all of your players.

Basketball Drills with Shaka Smart

By Brian Williams on September 8, 2015

These drills were filmed when current Texas men’s coach Shaka Smart was at VCU

The drills are You Tube videos, so to be able to watch them, you will need to be able to access You Tube.

The first drill is a shooting drill and the second one is a rebounding/inside toughness drill.

Make sure your sound is on as you watch.

Click the play arrow below to see the drills.

If you are interested in learning more about the 2 DVD set that this drill came from, use this link:
Shaka Smart’s 2013 Basketball Coaches Clinic

30 Baskets Shooting Drill

Circle Trap

This final drill is with Akron Coach Keith Dambrot who credits Shaka Smart in the video.

Dambrot and Smart were assistants on the Akron staff together.

Make sure your sound is on. The video is three and a half minutes long.

Click the play arrow to watch the video.

If you are interested in more information about the DVD that this sample came from. click here: Fundamental Drills That Build Champions

Post Player Development Drills

The first two and a half minutes are a drill to work on going strong after offensive rebounds. At about two and a half minutes, the drill changes to making an aggressive duck in.

If you are interested in finding out more about the DVD that this rebounding drill comes from, you can use this link:

All Access Basketball Practice with Shaka Smart – Basketball — Championship Productions, Inc.

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