Shooting Drills

These shooting drills were posted in the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library

The site has thousands of drills and plays that have been submitted by basketball coaches from around the world.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw.

I hope you can either add these to your summer workouts for a change of pace, or can use them for your fall workouts, or possibly even save them for practice when the season starts.

These drills were contributed by Kyle Gilreath. Kyle served as a graduate manager at Florida and is currently the Head Boys Coach at Astronaut High School in Florida.

He contributes a great deal of content to the coaching community through the FastModel library and his coaching blog, Words on the Bounce.

Kyle is the author of the coaching eBook Championship Execution. He is currently on the Pure Sweat Basketball staff as well.

Hall of Fame Shooting Drill

Make 8 shots from each of the 5 zones.

Make the following 8 shots from each of the 5 zones (color designates the spot where the shot starts:

1. Catch & Shoot
2. Mid-Rand Catch & Shoot
3. 3-pointer Catch & Shoot
4. 1 Dribble Right – Shot
5. 1 Dribble Left- Shot
6. 1 Dribble Right – Step-Back
7. 1 Dribble Left – Step-Back
8. 3-pointer Catch & Shoot

If a shot is missed, you go back to the previous spot/shot within that ‘zone’.

Cone Shooting Progression

 

Catch & Shoot

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Right – Shot

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Left – Shot

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Right – Continuous Lateral Between the Legs – Shot

 

 
 

 

1 Dribble Left – Continuous Lateral Between the Legs – Shot

 

 
 

 

1 Dribble Right – Change – Floater/Runner

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Left – Change – Floater/Runner

 

 

 

This drill is a from Arkansas Women’s Coach Mike Neighbors’ newsletter.

His basketball coaching newsletter is one of the oldest and best around.

If you are interested in joining his distribution list, email me and I will pass your email address along to him.

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.

I hope you can find a way to find a system for all of your shooting drills to reward both game speed and shots made.

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Shooting Stars Shooting Drill

We put a new twist on an old classic. I grew up shooting “stars” with my uncles in the driveway.

We always tracked number of makes or timed how long it took me to make 10 or 12.

Looking for a new way to insure players took game shots, from our game spots, at our game speed, we came up with this way to make it competitive among our three point shooters.

Keys to this drill:
1) Our game shots
2) From our game spots
3) At our game speed

It’s a ten shot drill. Player shoots from the corner (spot 1), sprints to opposite wing for shot 2, to the other wing for shot 3, to opposite corner for shot 4, finally to top of the key for shot 5.

Back to the starting corner for 6 and repeat the pattern of wing, wing, corner top to finish with 10 shot attempts.

We start the time as soon as she releases first shot and stop on release of shot 10.

We then take the total time and subtract 3 seconds for each MADE shot.

This tracking rewards the player for sprinting between while being able to settle and make shots.

The goal became get as close to 0.00 has possible.

For example, complete the star in 38.25 seconds with 8 makes would yield a score of 14.25. The fastest time we have on record is by Kelsey Plum. Made 9 shots in 30.20 seconds for a time of 3.20. I will predict she will eventually get a 0.00 or a negative time!!!

These two drills came from Drew Hanlen’s Pure Sweat Basketball Competitive Shooting Challenges Drill Book.

Drew is an NBA Strategic Skills Coach & Consultant that has helped over 25 NBA and NBA pre-draft players.

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

5 Spots in a Row Shooting Drill

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Step 1: You will shoot spot-up jump shots from five spots on the court. You have to make three shots in a row to move on to the next spot.

Step 2: After making three shots in a row from all five spots, you have to make five shots in a row (one from each of the five spots) to finish the drill in as little time as possible. A good goal is to finish the drill in less than three minutes.

Record: Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards) finished this drill in 1:20.

Wing Ball Screen Blitz Series

Step 1: Start on the wing with a live dribble. Set up your defender with a quick fake away from the screen, then come shoulder-to-hip with your screen. Simulate that the screener’s defender is showing, so you will perform a quick evade, by quickly jabbing your inside foot between their stance, to freeze them, then uphill lunge, and then separate down hill with an explosion dribble for an uncontested jump shot.

Step 2: Run back to your starting spot, set up your defender, and then come shoulder-to-hip with your screener. This time, simulate that the screener’s defender is blitzing, so you will perform a top pop, by quickly jabbing your inside foot between their stance, to freeze them, then pop to the top of the screener’s defender’s hedge, while squaring your shoulders to the rim, and then separate down hill with an explosion dribble for an uncontested jump shot.

Step 3: Run back to your starting spot, set up your defender, and then come shoulder-to-hip with your screener. This time, simulate that the screener’s defender blitzed, but left space between him and the screener, so you will jab and throw your shoulders towards the screener’s defender’s outside hip, as if you were trying to evade the defender. This will get the screener’s defender to slide uphill and create more separation from the screener. When they begin to slide to cut off your evasion step, split between him and your screener, by throwing the ball through space, with a long, low dribble, and then finish with a floater.

Step 4: Run back to your starting spot, set up your defender, and then come shoulder-to-hip with your screener. This time, simulate that your defender leaves space between you and the screener and the screener’s defender is hedging or preparing to hedge, so you will split through the space before the screen, by throwing the ball through space, with a long, low dribble, and then finish with a floater. Continue repeating these four reads and try to see how many shots you can make in two minutes. A good goal is to finish the drill with at least 10 made shots.

Record: Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards) made 16 shots.

These three shooting drills were posted in the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library

The site has thousands of drills and plays that have been submitted by basketball coaches from around the world.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw.

The first two drills were submitted by Kyle Gilreath, Assistant Basketball Coach at Fort Myers (Florida) High School. Kyle previously served for five seasons as an undergraduate manager and graduate assistant for Billy Donovan at Florida.

The third drill was posted by Tim Springer, Girls Varsity Basketball Coach at Castle Hills First Baptist School.

Big 8 Shooting Drill

Player starts at block and sprints around opposite cone of catch & shoot jumper.

After shooting the player then sprints to the corner and curls back around the other cone for another catch & shoot jumper.

 
 

After shooting player sprints and touches the other block and repeats the drill from the other direction.

Do drill for time or number of makes (10).

 

 
 

Back and Forth Shooting Drill

This drill was used by Billy Donovan at Florida.

Player stands in the middle of the floor at the top of the key with a coach flanking him on the right wing and the left wing. The player will attempt to take and make as many shots as they can in 1 minute.

The player starts by going to their right 1st for a catch and shoot and then turns back to their left (all catches will be made at the slot/elbow extended).

You can use other players, managers, or coaches to rebound.

Attack Closeouts Change of Direction Shooting

Drill to teach players how to take ground from a defender, make a move based on speed and direction of the defense, and pull up into a jump shot.

Defenders pass to offense lined up at volleyball line and then close out.
 

Offense immediately puts the ball on the floor and trys to take ground from the defender. They hit a change of direction when they meet the defender and separate into a jump shot.

Players can attack middle or baseline.

These videos are two of the great resources available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as basketball coaching resource articles.

I hope these videos give you some ways to add variety to your summer shooting drills to keep what you do fresh for your players.

You can use the idea and incorporate the cuts that you use in your offensive system into a similar drill. You can time it. They didn’t show the other side of the floor in the video, but shooters should make the same cuts on the left side of the floor to complete the series.

Matthew Graves is currently an Assistant at Xavier. He was an Assistant to Brad Stevens and a player at Butler.

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

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

Combo Series Shooting Drill

M Shooting Drill

You can use these drills to add some footwork and agility to your summer shooting workouts.

They are from Basketball Performance Coach Alan Stein of Pure Sweat Basketball.

He also puts out a lot of great content on Twitter: @alanstein

Or, to make them fit your system, you might want to put the cones in spots where your shooters receive screens in your offensive system.

You can add a time or scoring factor and include the footwork that you teach to make the drills your own and make them competitive.

The videos are You Tube videos, so make sure you can access them on the server you are using and make sure your sound is on.

Big X Agility Shooting Drill

Tight Circles Agility Shooting Drill

Trace the 3 Point Arc Agility Shooting Drill