6 on 4 Full Court Shell Drill

By Brian Williams on March 26, 2019

An idea for a full court version of the shell drill from Chris Jans of New Mexico State.

You might not play these exact rules, but starting full court is a way to add a variation to your shell drill.

I hope it gets you and your staff thinking about ways to improve the drills that you currently use to teach and practice your defense.

The demonstration is using players as coaches and is with a team that has never run this drill. To me, the idea is the concepts presented and whether or not you want to use them in your program.

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6 on 4 Full Court Shell Drill

You can find out more about the Championship Productions video that this clip is from at this link: High Energy Practice Drills

Mid Post Jab Workout

By Brian Williams on March 22, 2019

This scoring workout is provided by our partners at Dr. Dish Basketball.

Like all drills that you see, you can either modify it or take parts of the drill for your use and your needs.

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The coach in the video is Drew Hanlen of Pure Sweat Basketball.

Here’s the basic progression of moves throughout the workout:

Jab Shot
Jab, 1 Dribble Fade (towards middle)
Jab, 1 Dribble Step Back (towards middle)
Core Shake Jumper (towards baseline)

Reaction Shooting Drill

Around the World Team Shooting Drill

By Brian Williams on March 17, 2019

This post is with Mike Neighbors, Arkansas Women’s Basketball Coach.

This video and other basketball coaching videos are available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball You Tube Channel

Like all drills that you see other programs use, you can either modify it or take parts of these ideas for your use and your needs.

You might want to change where the passes come from in your version so that you are getting other shots than only from inside out passes.

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In Practice Free Throws

By Brian Williams on March 3, 2019

This post on ways to work on free throw shooting is from Mike Neighbors.

This video and other basketball coaching videos are available on the Arkansas Women’s Basketball You Tube Channel

Like all drills that you see other programs use, you can either modify it or take parts of these ideas for your use and your needs.

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Points Per Shot by Zone

By Brian Williams on February 26, 2019

Originally titled “The 40/60/80 Club”

By Stephen Shea, Ph.D. (@SteveShea33)

Editor’s note from Brian: Yes you have to play to your individual players’ strengths, and some of your individual player’s strengths might be long 2s. The data is presented to stimulate some thought as to what types of skills you want to work on to develop in your players, and how you want to structure your offensive and defensive philosophy and tactics.

These are NBA data and the NBA 3 point arc is constructed differently than college and high school. I still believe that there are applications of this information to those levels.

Analytics have had no more obvious influence on the game of basketball than on shot selection, and the influence extends beyond the suggestion to take more threes.

The best shots are from behind the arc, at the hoop and at the free-throw line.

(The points per shot for free throws is for a 2 shot free throw situation)

Even though high school does not have a “restricted area,” you can still use the visual from college and professional games to get an idea where those shots are taken, even on a court without that marking.

As a result, NBA teams are taking half as many mid-range jumpers as they did 20 years ago. And there’s no sign of that trend slowing down.

If teams are strategizing to take more shots at the hoop, from three and from the free-throw line, then it’s only natural that they should want the players that are the most efficient from those regions.

We introduce the 40/60/80 Club, an exclusive group of go-to NBA scorers that shoot better than 40% from three, 60% from the restricted area and 80% from the free-throw line.

Editor’s note from Brian: Just an idea that you might be able to apply to your players. In my opinion, looking at overall field goal percentage (combining 2s and 3s as field goal attempts is not a very helpful statistic. Breaking shots into restricted area, other 2’s, 3’s and free throws give you a much better idea of where you are strong and where you need to improve–both from an offensive and defensive point of view.

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Dr. Shea has co-authored two books on the subject of utilizing analytical data in basketball. You can find out more about both books by clicking on the links or images of the book covers below.

Basketball Analytics: Objective and Efficient Strategies for Understanding How Teams Win

Basketball Analytics: Spatial Tracking

Reaction Shooting Drill

By Brian Williams on February 18, 2019

This drills are provided by our partners at Dr. Dish Basketball.

Like all drills that you see, you can either modify it or take parts of the drill for your use and your needs.

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In the drill below, you how you can use Dr. Dish to work on reactionary shooting and force players to shoot off the move when receiving a pass that’s not right in their shot pocket.

In this drill, the players start with their back to the basketball as well as the Dr. Dish.

Once they hear the ball being passed out they will locate where the ball is traveling.

They must move their entire body to meet the pass and remain on balance as they catch and shoot.

Again, this is a great way to simulate a game scenario and force players to execute in uncomfortable situations.

Here is a link to the drill on the Dr. Dish site.