One of the things I’ve found in almost 20 years of teaching and coaching youth basketball is that shooting the basketball often gets in the way of teaching inexperienced youth players the other fine points to the game.
Give these basketball youth drills a try with your teams. The first drill is a good one to use at the beginning of practice. The second drill is for boxing out. It is teaching the defense to hold a box out.
Of all the youth basketball drills I know, the drill I find young kids enjoy most is fairly basic. When I find if I’m losing their attention this is a good one to bring them back.
While coaching youth basketball, to get one of my younger teams to use their feet in defense, it was arranged for them to go mountain climbing (i.e. ropes etc). I find that using other sports to break the monotony of drills works well with younger players.
Of all the basketball youth drills I use, this is one a colleague introduced to me and I love it. As you know, ten year old boys games are won with lay-ups and rebounds.
This basketball shooting drill is one of my favorite basketball youth drills that I really enjoy doing with younger players, 6-8 yr. olds (a high school coach taught me this drill). At this age, teaching proper shooting technique is critical, so, starting out we don’t even use a basketball for this drill.
One of the basketball youth drills I use is called a Ball Scramble. The kids love it. They run and they learn the fundamentals of hustle, awareness and it’s easy to see the reward on the court.
If you’re looking for basketball drills for kids give this drill a try. It is a dribbling basketball drill (or dribbling game). The object is to be the last one with a ball.
When I was coaching eight and nine year old boys and girls I used a drill that the kids loved. These basketball ball handling drills give them a great opportunity to practice ball control and shielding the ball from defenders.
Here’s one of the basketball practice drills that the dads can do with their players at home. I show this to my Dads the first practice of the season and ask for 15-30 mins. a day with their player.
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