The goal of the drill is to try and steal (knock out of bounds) your teammates ball without losing yours and keeping on the correct hand according to the coach’s whistle. The players love the competitiveness of this drill.
Here is one of my favorite dribbling drill for kids. I call it No Look Dribbling.
Ray Allen. Kobe Bryant. Michael Jordan. Those are just some of the names that come to mind when you think of shooting guards, and they all have one thing in common – the ability to score the basketball. When thinking of the prototypical 2-guard, they would ideally have the skill to create their own shot [...]
When I’m teaching the Motion Offense I use this drill that I call the Motion Passing Drill. This drill really teaches the importance of moving to receive the pass (v-cut), the back door cut, and passing to the post (especially coming from the weak side).
Here’s a full court lay-up drill that is competitive and a good indicator of how good you can run the floor.
When I was a coach of a middle school girls team we were very successful. I attribute the reason for our success was because I preach that games were meant to be fun. When they stop being fun they’re not worth playing anymore – so I was always looking to make it fun!
Our team practices will be designed to involve all of our coaches and to condition our team while in a practice setting. Furthering individual skills will be emphasized, yet our primary goal will be to build the team concept.
One of the biggest challenge I am facing, despite the short attention span of the 8 and 9 year olds, is two of the players have autism. Each one has a different quirk. What I have found is to plan my practices in advance down to the minute from start to finish, but limiting each exercise/drill to 10 or 15 minutes each, and most importantly participating in the drills with the kids.
While coaching young girls (5th and 6th grades) at the first practice I tell my kids that I expect two things out of them. One, I expect them to work hard and, two I expect them to have fun. I tell them if they don’t work hard I will let them know about it and if they are not having fun I expect them to let me know about it.
Here is my out of bounds play underneath the hoop. I call it 4 Corners.
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