Basketball Drills
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Here Are A couple great Basketball Drills to use in your practice, along with important teaching points
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Purpose: This teaches players to execute the continuity offense without the use of the dribble. The goal of the drill is not to score, but to complete as many passes as possible. Since the offense cannot dribble, the players without the ball must quickly and properly set and use screens to move the ball. Players are also required to catch the ball in the proper areas in the offense. If a player should catch the ball on the wing, he must catch it on the wing in the scoring area instead of coming out of the scoring area to catch the ball. This drill has proven especially valuable because it demands precision and quickness under pressure. Ideally this carries over to games and allows players to properly execute against great quickness and pressure.
Organization: 5 players on offense and 5 on defense. The point guard starts with the ball.
Procedure:
1. The offense completes as many passes as it can without the ball hitting the ground while the defense overplays, looking to deflect or steal the ball.
2. Each team gets 3 possessions. The total amount of passes completed in 3 possessions is their final score.
3. Possession is also lost if a player catches the ball out of position. If a player isn’t open he should not come out of position to receive the ball, he should go away and set a screen.
4. Possession is also lost on a 5 second count.
5. Defenders cannot switch on screens.
Coaching Points:
1. Screeners should screen bodies. They should “headhunt”and set the screen on a man. Players often fall into the habit of going to a predetermined spot
and “screening air”making it difficult for the man receiving the screen to free himself.
2. Players must influence before coming off screens. This is done by taking a step or two away from the screen to set up the defender, then cutting back to
come off the screen. Taking the defender away from the screen often forces the defender into errors, especially if they react strongly to the fake.
3. Players should rub shoulders on screens. The man coming off the screen rubs shoulders with the screener, leaving no gap between himself and his teammate for the defender to get through.
4. If a player comes off a screen but is overplayed and cannot receive a pass, he re-screens, going away from the ball and screening for another teammate.
5. Players with the ball assume triple threat position and make a jab step to prevent the defense from guarding too closely. Always avoid turning away
from the basket to protect the ball.
6. Offense should always look to reverse the ball. This forces the defense to work much harder than if the ball stays on one side of the floor.
7. The defense should try hard to deny all passes to end the offense‟s possession.
8. Defender‟s follow the rules of man to man defense, jumping to the ball. This makes it much easier to fight through screens. |
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Purpose: 3 on 2 fast break situations and conditioning
Organization:5 players line up along the baseline as shown. Player 2 has a ball
Procedure:
- Player 3 dribbles up the court full speed
- The other 4 players move up-court at the same pace as 3
- On the whistle, all players change directions
- 1, 3, and 5 play offense and try to score
- 2 and 4 play defense and try to stop 1, 3, and 5 from scoring in a 3 on 2 situation
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- 1, 3, and 5 should score using no more than 3 passes
- The middle man (3) should follow a pass to either wing by following the pass to the ballside elbow for a return pass (reversal)
- If they receive a pass, wing players should:
- shoot
- pass to the other wing for a layup
- Reverse to the midlle man near the ballside elbow
- One defender (2) should stop the ball while the other (4) covers basket.
- On a pass to a wing, 4 moves out to cover and 2 drops to cover the basket
- Communicate on defense
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