Basketball drills and skills
This season, never hunt around for a fresh basketball drill again. Get proven and easy to use drills for all groups and abilities with Basketball Coach Weekly. As a coach, it is your job to give your team the skills and technique to be great players. The soccer drills in this section will help you coach your players in the core skills of the game. We’ll tell you what to look out for, how to get the ideas over to your players, and we’ll give you games and exercises to really power-up their skills.
in Shooting drills
The shooter must make two consecutive shots from one position to advance to the next — the goal is to finish all seven spots before 90 seconds expire. MORE
in Shooting drills
Incorporating a 9-inning concept, the ‘Baseball Shooting Drill’ ramps up the competitiveness and rewards consistency. MORE
in Shooting drills
The shooter covers a lot of ground in 2 minutes while trying to make more shots than miss and get the score into the 5- to 7-point range. MORE
in Shooting drills
Players decide in advance how long to make the competition and what moves to use, then shoot head-to-head to determine a winner. MORE
in Shooting drills
Grab this set from one of the best play designers in the game — Boston’s Brad Stevens — to use a decoy off a double screen in setting up a shooter. MORE
in Defense drills
Move the point guard in the opposite direction of the offense to disrupt the opposition’s timing and cohesion while still covering rolling screener. WHY USE IT Once again, the goal is to keep the offense from running what it wants, as well as forcing the point guard to make a non-attacking pass. SET UP This... MORE
in Defense drills
A skill to work on every day in practice, the defensive slide isn’t as easy as it looks, especially when facing a gifted ball handler. MORE
in Shooting drills
Missing 2 in a row forces the player to reset to zero at the specified spot on the floor, so shooters are forced to get into a rhythm while also being competitive with their teammates. MORE
in Shooting drills
Teach shooters how to move from low to high while curling through the lane toward the opposite elbow while also having them follow their shots to create game-like movements. MORE
in Offense drills
The corner seems like an odd place from which to use a 2-man game but this play exploits the space on the floor for several scoring options. WHY USE IT Shift the areas from which you attack on the floor to keep defenses honest. This play is run from the corner, which makes it difficult... MORE
