Shooting Drills

This basketball shooting drill is from Coach Randi (Peterson) Henderson, Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Coe College.

It is included in The Basketball HoopScoop’s A System of Success: 2011 Conference Champion and National Tournament Playbook–edited by Dan Ninham.

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This drill encourages communication, responsibility, and attention to detail.

The team is required to keep the ball off the ground for the duration of the drill as well as make consistent two handed passes and catches on the run. Other variations of the drill are 1) to make a certain amount in 1:00 2) have a perfect 1:00 3) Add Coaches for defense in transition or to trap the out1et.

The most demanding way to run the drill is to put 5:00 on the clock with the team goal being to score 150 points (1 point for layups, 2 points for 2 point jump shot, 3 points for 3 point shots).

The rules are NO TRAVELS, NO MISSED LAYUPS, AND THE BALL CANNOT TOUCH THE GROUND. Exception: 1 bounce is allowed on the rebound for two and three point jump shots.

You will need to adjust the standards to fit the level you coach and the changing abilities of your players from year to year and also adjust the types of shots and passes to fit your system of play.

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Coach starts the time on the clock with a layup and a pass to 1 who is yelling “Outlet.”

1 cuts to top of the key for the pass.

Right and Left wing take off sprinting.

One is naming and yelling “Long” the other is yelling “Out1et”.

1 distributes the ball without dribbling or traveling to the Outlet wing and follows the pass.

The outlet wing delivers a scoring pass without dribbling or traveling, then follows the pass for a shot.

 

After the layup is made, the player who just shot the layup gets the ball out of the rim keeping it off the ground and outlets to 1 cutting to the top of the key.

The two wings who are on the baseline, deliver 2 handed passes to the shooters and then proceed to take off for the “outlet” or “long” layup.

 

 

 

 

Drill is done for 5 minutes:

NO TRAVELS, NO DROPPED PASSES, and NO MISSED LAYUPS

On the Wing Catches, be outside the 3 pt line on the catch:

(You can adjust the types of finishes or shots to fit your needs)
1 minute the finish is 1 Dribble Layup off 1 foot
I minute 1 Dribble Layups off 2 feet w/a Peek
1 minute 1 Dribble Jumpers
1 minute Catch & Shoot in Range
1 minute Choose your shot

This drill is included in The Basketball HoopScoop’s “A System of Success: 2011 Conference Champion and National Tournament Playbook–edited by Dan Ninham. The book has a lot of drills and sets from very successful small college women’s programs.

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Here are two ideas for basketball shooting drills. The first one is more of a team drill with an emphasis on rebounding and passing as well as shooting. The second is more of a toughness drill requiring the shooter to make shots when tired while having the pressure of making consecutive shots.

I hope you find ways to tweak these shooting drills to fit your philosophy and that you can use them in your pre-season skill workouts or in your regular season shooting drills.

The rebounder should be ready to rebound all shots without the ball hitting the ground. The passer can be located at any spot where passes come from in your offensive system. Reggie Miller frequently came off screens from the basket out, but that might not fit your scheme. This shooter will start under the basket in the drill but can be moved anywhere that makes cuts from in your offense.

Emphasize to the shooter to make game-like cuts, including changing speeds and directions while making the cuts. The shooter will receive the ball for a catch-and-shoot shot, or some kind of one-dribble pull-up shot. After one minute is up, the players will rotate passer, rebounder, and shooter.

I know that the passer does move his feet in the first video, but that is something you can fix in your version of the drill.

For the first drill, the shooter is going to work on the cuts that you use within your offensive system. The Passer concentrates on time on target passes–and not traveling when delivering the ball. The rebounder’s job is to get the rebound before it hits the floor. I like the idea of adding a point to the score each time the rebounder accomplishes that task and subtracting points for bad passes.

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The thought behind the post isn’t to worry about the shooting form or mistakes being made, but to give you ideas on something to add to or improve the shooting drills that you currently use.

Reggie Miller Shooting Drill

Larry Bird 2 Minute Shooting Drill

Former Louisville Assistant Basketball Coach, and current Arkansas State Head Men’s Coach, Mike Balado takes you through a shooting drill they use at Louisville. The video is 2 and a half minutes long.

Louisville’s goal is for players to make 80% of their shots in workouts when they are unguarded. Obviously, you can modify that for the level that you coach, but I like to have a standard for makes with all that we do with shooting.

Set up an obstacle (chair, cone, player, or coach) 2-3 feet outside the elbow on either side of the paint. Passer is above the key and. Station the rebounder under the basket. The shooter starts at the ten second line. Drill starts with passer hitting the shooter moving toward the chair. Shooter will dribble with their inside hand. At the imaginary defender make any crossover move so that the ball is now in their outside hand. Take 2 dribbles, and then pull up for a jump shot.

After they shoot they are going to take two steps towards the baseline and then come off the chair for a down screen shot. The next shot is a flare screen (using the chair as the screener) shot. After the fade shot the shooter sprints back to half court and will shoot the same patter 4 times (12 shots). Run the drill on both sides.

After you have watched the video below, you can see another shooting drill that I posted last spring from the Louisville Program by clicking here.

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Today’s post contains two videos from Wichita State Head Basketball Coach Coach Gregg Marshall going through a series that they use to work on their wings players skills.

The video is about a minute long and shows a shooting drill that they use at the end of practice to develop the ability to shoot under fatigue.

You could use this as a team shooting drill in season, or tweak it when you are doing an individual workout with one or two players. Each player should shoot until he or she makes a shot at the spot while running to half court and back on a miss. They move on to the next spot when they make a shot from the current spot. Time them to ensure that they are running hard on their sprints.

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This basketball shooting drill is from former Arizona and Iowa State assistant coach Randy Brown.

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The drill in the video is a way to apply principles from the cutthroat drill to a shooting drill where the real emphasis is making a high volume of game-like shots.

The drill forces the players to concentrate rather than just simply go through the motions of the drill.

Some ways to make the drill fit your program:

Make your conditions fit your offensive system, add another player and require an extra pass or a ball screen, add a time condition for each group, or keep an overall score to make the drill competitive.

I hope the drill in the video gives you some ideas for conditions that will be considered turnovers in your shooting drills to improve your player’s execution.

Randy uses the first 90 seconds to set up the drill and then gives a demonstration for the remainder of the four-and-a-half-minute video.