Shooting Drills

Today’s post is an idea for a competitive shooting drill with Brian Baudinet, former Assistant Coach with the NBA Development League’s Tulsa 66ers (Since relocated and renamed to the Oklahoma City Blue).

Coach Baudinet is currently the Head Boy’s Basketball Coach at Canterbury Prep School in CT.

You can use this drill as a part of your fall shooting workouts or save it for the individual skill development portion ofyour winter practices.

I like finding varieties of ways of keeping score and putting some pressure on the shooter. You could also add a timed segment to the drill to put another type of pressure on your shooter.

You can change the types of shots that you shoot to fit your system.

Another tweak you can make is to change the scoring to fit the level of your players. For example, making 15 without missing through could be “Gold”, making 13 and missing 3 could be “Silver,” 11 and 3 “bronze,” etc… You could use D1, D2, D3, Champion, Varsity, JV, or whatever levels are appropriate for your team.

This video is one of the great resources available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as resource articles.

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Basketball Drills 15 and 3 Pressure Shooting

Some team shooting drills that were sent to me by Coaches Travis Golden and Nate Hill.

The first drill from Coach Golden is a modification of the Around the World Shooting Game to make it a competitive team shooting game. He is the girls 1st assistant at Clear Creek High School in League City Texas.

Travis said “Our kids have really gotten a kick out of the drill and we love the pressure throughout the game.”

Around the World Team Shooting Competition

This is a modification of the original Around the World game and has similar rules. You can have as many or as few spots as you would like from any distance.

 

1. Split your teams up to 5-7 players per basket and if you have enough basketballs for everyone have them get one per person otherwise 3-4 basketballs per group.

2. Choose your spots. We usually go with 5 to 7 3 point spots around the arc.

3. Team lines up at designated spot 1.

4. Must make a basket to move on to the next spot. If a person misses the next person can “chance it” and if they make it they move on. If they miss they go back to the original starting spot. If the team wants to stay at that spot then all of them must make a layup in order. If a person misses a layup they go back to the original spot. If they all make their layups then they stay at that spot and continue playing as if it is their turn again. You can modify the layups to block shots, reverse layups, or whatever you feel is acceptable for your teams skill set.

5. All baskets start shooting on signal from the coach. First basket to complete all of the spots you have chosen is the winning team.

The remaining drills were supplied Nate Hill is the Assistant Boys Coach at Colonel Crawford High School in North Robinson, Ohio.

Hopefully you can get some ideas from these drills to tweak your shooting drills to add some variety to your practices for the final portion of the season.

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

Coach Hill has a Coaching Newsletter. You can see his latest as well as sign up for it at this link:

Next Level 419 Coaching Newsletter.

Fastbreak Shooting

Diagrams created with FastDraw

Fastbreak shooting Frame 1 (Left): 1 throws ball off backboard, “chins” ball and outlets to 1x “looping”. 1 then sprints and touches sideline, running wide. 1x shoots layup in 3 dribbles.

Fastbreak shooting Frame 2 (Left):x1 inbounds the ball to 1 looping. 1 should be able to make a layup in 3 – 4 dribbles. x1 runs wide touching sideline and gets rebound.

Same actions
2. Pass for layup
3. Pass for jumper
4. pass ahead, then return pass for flare screen
5. pull up jumper at elbow or for 3

Marquette Shooting

To work on emphasizing the concept of one more pass.

1 minute per spot, 1st time midrange, 2nd time 3’s. 8 spots total, 3 balls.

Coach starts with 3 basketballs.

Coach passes to 1 who passes to 6 for a shot.

+layers rotate and follow pass and their own shot.

1st shot is midrange shot for 1 minute

spot #2: coach moves up, and lines rotate.

Spot #2 is on the wing mid range jump shot for 1 minute.

Shoot on the opposite side of the floor as well.

 

Here are a couple of shooting drills that I hope will spark some thinking on improvements you can incorporate into your shooting drills. I like to have enough drills to offer a variety to hopefully keep players from getting to the point where they start going through the motions from running the same drills day after day. Maybe you could save one for the end of the season.

Take the things you like and leave out anything that you don’t if you want to run similar drills in your practices.

The videos are among the basketball training videos for all levels of coaches, players, and parents that is offered by BasketballHQ. You can access their entire library with a pro membership. They offer a free 7 day trial for the membership. If you are interested, you can see more at this link: Basketball HQ

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Basketball Drills Around the Horn Shooting

This drill forces the player to remain ready to shoot the ball because they don’t know when it is coming to them. Even though there is only one shooter in the drill, I believe that you could make this a team drill with at least a couple of players shooting at a basket at a time.

It gives you an opportunity to teach footwork the way you want it taught and is a way to work on shooting when fatigued.

The shooter starts in the corner, and the passer/rebounder is stationed in the lane. When the drill starts the shooter moves around the arc until the passer throws them the ball. The pass can be made at any time.

After the shot is taken the shooter return to the corner where they started and go again.

Basketball Drills “Baseball” Shooting

You might not want to use this exact same scoring system, but hopefully it gives you an idea to find a way to structure a drill that scores in a slightly different way.

Set 9 spots around the 3 point arc for the nine “innings”. The shooter gets three outs (shots missed) per inning just like baseball. Once you have three outs, you move on to the next inning (spot).

If the shooter makes a shot, but hits the rim, they get a single. A swish is a homerun. The object is to score as many “runs” as possible using those rules. The video has an example and more details on scoring. Once the players shoots nine innings, the drill is over.

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This basketball shooting drill is from Mike Neighbors of the Arkansas Women’s Program.

I think it is good to collect a variety of drills so that you can continually add in new drills for variety as the season unfolds to keep things fresh for your players.

At the bottom of this post are links to other drills as well as other posts from Coach Neighbors.

With a large team we had to tweak some of our shooting drills this season.

This is one we “accidentally” created from our One Minute, One Spot shooting drill.

Divide team evenly as possible on both ends. Each end has three balls.

Encircled numbers in the diagram represent the three passers with basketballs at each end.

Passer will pass to shooter then take spot in line. Shooter will shoot and rebound make/miss and pass to next person in line.

 

We shoot in this spot for 1:00. We can record three things if we have enough counters. Each group score per spot, each end score per spot, and total score for team on both ends.

 

 

 

For second 1:00 period, we move one spot to the left and repeat. We shoot 5:00 and all 5 spots.

(The five spots are both corners, both 45 degree angles, and straight on from the top of the key)

The ends can compete against each other. The team can compete against a “record number”, and individual groups can compete against one another.

I love the variety, the number of shots we can attempt in a short period of time.

We have only done this once so expect scores to improve, but first totals were:

135 high spot for whole team. 90 per end, and 63 per single group

This drill is adapted from some competitive drills from the University of Kansas women’s team that were included in Mike Neighbors’ University of Arkansas women’s basketball coaching newsletter.

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Thought you might be able to use this drill to conclude your practices to do some conditioning with a basketball, work on scoring in transition, as well as force your players to shoot and compete when tired.

In the version from the newsletter, the passer at that top of the key is a coach and every player has a basketball.

I like the idea of having players work on making good passes to the shooter, so I have made some adjustments.

Split the squad into 2 teams–one at each end. In the diagram, red team and blue teams.

Diagram created with FastDraw

Players 1 and 2 have basketballs, player 3 is the rebounder, and 4 and 5 are the passers.

Player 1 passes to player 4, cuts to the basket, receives a pass back and takes the shot. Player 3 rebounds. After shooting, 1 goes to the end of the passing line. 3 rebounds and dribbles around the cones back to the back of the shooting line. 4 (who passed to 1) becomes the rebounder.

The first end to make 20 shots wins that round. The winning team must “verify the win.” One player from the winning team has to go to the free throw line immediately and make one free throw. If the player misses the free throw, the win for that round does not count. Verifying the drill is something you can use in many of your drills to force players to shoot some free throws under pressure.

First end to win 3 rounds (and verify them) is the overall winner. Every player shoots the same type shot for each set of 20 makes. Make sure to only shoot shots in this drill that you would consider to be a good shot in transition. Here are some ideas for shots to use:

1) 1 foot layup
2) 2 feett power layup
3) Catch and shoot mid range shot
4) Rip through one dribble pull up
5) Change of direction cut into a jump shot
6) Catch and shoot 3 point shot