Eggbeater Shooting Drill
Hi Coach,
Click on the play button below to watch this video on the “Eggbeater Drill.” This is a great way to get tons of reps in for your shooters, and improve your passing and on-court communication… and look GOOD doing it 
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-Coach Pat
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We like to run a three on three drill which we use for both defense & offense although we award points only to the defensive team. We have nine players so we break into three teams… two teams play while one sits out. If the defense gets a stop they get one point and stay on the court as defense. The offense sits out and the team that was sitting gets to play offense. If the offense scores then they go to defense while the team that was playing D sits and the team that was sitting play O. The first team to ten points gets water while the other two teams do either pushups or laps before they get water.
I like a drill I call “2 on 3 Rundown”. It is a full court fastbreak type drill. There are 5 lines at the end of the court: 2 offense(Red) & 3 defense (White). The first 2 red players are touching the FT line at the elbows; the first 3 white players are behind the baseline, one in the middle and one near each sideline. Everyone goes when the coach passes the ball to one of the red players, who must dribble across the half court line before passing to the teammate. The 3 white players are sprinting to catch up. Red tries to get a layup or quick shot. Red can shoot more than once if they can get a rebound. If white can get a steal, then red does not get a shot. (If red scores, you can make white take it out and throw the ball in, or to speed up the drill, you can let them go as soon as they get the ball.) Now the two red players are on defense and try to stop the three white players at the other end of the floor in a normal 3 on 2 situation, but white only gets one shot. If white scores, red runs extra; if red scores, white runs extra. If it is a tie, nobody runs. The next group of 5 step to the court, the coach passes a ball, and you’re going again. If players aren’t paying attention, they will get left behind!
The main reason I like this drill is because it forces players to learn to play at full speed. If they don’t, the defense will catch up easily. The players like it because it is very competitive. It gets a lot of full speed running into your practice as well. Give it a try!
I am mostly a defense orientated coach but here’s one that can be used to focus on offensive movement and communication whilst working on passing, defense and conditioning.
5v5 in the half court (can be done 3v3 or 4v4 just reduce the area you are working in) NO dribbling and the only shot allowed is an UNCONTESTED shot within 1 metre of the basket, each made basket is worth 1 point (If you miss the shot you have to do 10 good pushups on the baseline before you can rejoin the game)
Each possession starts at halfcourt and play continues until a made basket or a rebound by the defense (Defense scores a point for the rebound)Depending on your level you can also put a time limit on each possession and the team loses a point if they don’t get a shot off (When using a time limit I will allow an OPEN outside shot within 5 secs of the end of the possession time, 1 point if it scores push-ups if you miss)
Defense is pressure M2M either assuming ball handler still has a live dribble (Defense is within touching distance) or assume ball handler has used their dribble (Defense is in full denial)
I do not allow fouling and teams lose a point for each foul.
Play to between 5 or 10 possessions for each team and alternate each possession. Winning team gets to chose a penalty for the losing team.
Thanks Coach Gavin!
I am a 6,7 and 8th grade girls coach and I use the egg beater drill for worm ups be for a game and it gets them into shooting mode and it looks amazing.
Here is a drill that I love to do at practice.
It starts of as the three man weave going down full court but as they are coming back, the person who shot the ball (or made the lay up)has to run back and play defense against the other two. and just keep rotating them through. They get some Offense, passing, lay ups and work on defense all at the same time.
Hello Pat, best wishes for 2011.
Nice fasbreak drill. one runs, ons shoots and one defences
3 pylons one ball. Behind every pylons is a row. the pylons are hal a meter from the baseline.
The shooter shoots, the attacker and the defendeer run than to the baseline an to the other basket. The shooter rebounds and does make a outlet pass. The defender tries to gett before the attacker. 1-on-1.
This drill can be done by one shooter, two attackers and two defenders. One attacker and a defender wait half way that twe two on the baseline will pass to interfine.
I think you know this drill. It is fast and you need skills to handel in in the right way.
Bye Peter.
This a great warm-up drill that my grade 8 girls and boys teams love.It is called ball tag.One person starts out with the ball and there are 2 or 3 or more players on his team.They are called the IT team Everybody else which should be 10 -11 players are all running arond trying to avoid the IT team.By the way these 10-11 players are all wearing pinnies.Whoever has the ball on the IT team cannot move while his players must run to get in a position to catch the ball so he can tag someone on the other team.When someone on the other team is tagged then he takes off his pinny and joins the IT team and tries to help tag out someone on his old team.This game continues till everybody is tagged out.It is important to remember that the person with the ball cannot move(CAN PIVOT) to tag someone on the opppsite team.This is a great passing and warm-up drill which involves teamwork.
Nice one Robert. I’ll be sure to try it at this week’s practice!
nice drill, i use same format of shooting but passing is from top of the key and shots are from alternate corners
I coach a 7th grade boys team. We do a drill called Defense Mikans. Either myself or another coach will simply body up the player doing the Mikan with our hands extended. If the player brings the ball down below their waist, we will slap down on it, but other than that, we simply put our hands up with our body as close to the offensive player as possible. We do this with 3 or 4 players at a time with only one on the court in the drill. The other players who are off the court must do power jumps until the player on the court makes 5 from each side with each hand. We have found that this increases the intensity and makes the player on the court want to perform for his teammates.
Very nice drill Coach. I may try it next week.
Here one of my favourite drills can be used for defensive and offensive purpose: 1 player with a ball on top of the 3point line, 2 offensive players, sholder to sholder in the middel of the 3 sec. area.
Behind these 2 players (between the baseline and the offensive players) we have 2 defensive players. On the signal from the passer both offensive players trying to receive the ball on the side of the court. 1 player goes left, the other goes to the right.
Defensive players trying to deny the pass.
The passer decides to which player he is passing the ball.
After the pass we clearly have a ball side and a help side, so the defense adjust to this. The defense of the player who is not receiving the pass has to go to the helpside position quickly.
You can give different instructions to the offense: go 1-1 or drive and pitch. You can also include the passer into the offense.
love the eggbeater. Will try it for sure. Here’s a drill my 5th grade girls loved. I called it “Around the World Knockout.”
Our gym has 6 hoops (4 on the sides, 2 on the ends). Each kid has a ball, 2 players at each hoop. On the whistle, starting at their own hoop, the kids make layups and move to the next hoop around the gym in a clockwise direction. They cannot move to the next hoop until they make a layup on their hoop first. If a player behind you makes a basket on your hoop before you do, you are eliminated. Continue until a winner is crowned. Repeat in counterclockwise direction.
Good drill for making layups under pressure, dribbling, and conditioning.
One favorite drill that I run in almost every practice is the three vs two plus one continuous fastbreak drill. It is gamelike, and it teaches both offense and defense; it is also a good conditioning drill. We limit the number of passes to 2 at the most 3 passes; to get better execution on offense. Also, we believe in the philosophy of passing to either wing early, to attack one side and flatten the defense.
I call this the Wheel. You have you 5 players set up in offence. The guards at the blocks, forwards at the elbows and the point guard. The point guard stars with the ball. When the point guard says rotate the all the players rotate counter clockwise after the ball is passed to the right forward.
The point guard moves as screen to the right forward who runs behind the left forward. When he is in the center of the key the ball is passed to him for a layup. Run until the players know it by heart and use it in games.
Eggbeater is a nice drill, I’m sure I will use it.
Here is my favorite offensive shooting drill I use everyday in practice.
We call it the USA shooting drill because we saw the USA womens team sing it and promptly stole it.
It’s a 3 girl weave drill, full court, with one girl taking a layup and the other two girls faning out to take midrange shots.
It works like this, you have four lines off the court….these lines are located where the lane lines meet the end lines. The girls in the front of these lines have a ball.
You have three girls lined up across the foul line. The middle girl has a ball. Those three start to full court weave, the last girl to receive a pass inside the foul line makes a layup. The other two girls peel off to recieve a pass from the two girls under the basket, they take a miderange shot.
The two girls who made the passes now go with the the girl who made the layup and return weaving to the other end, where the girl who receives a pass last makes a layup and the other two peel off to receive passes from the other two girls under the basket. Then continue to repeat.
Teaching Points: *Good, leading passes*must run at sprint speed*no traveling*
Scoring is as follows: layup=1 pt., midrange shots=2pts.,
If all three are made thats 5 points, when all three are made I give 2 bonus points for a total of 7 ponts per pass.
We do this drill two ways, 8 minutes when we need more conditioning and 4 minutes when I want all out intensity.
You should set goals, I coach Girls Varsity and the best we have done was 350 points for 8 minutes.
Hope you like it.
Hi Terry,
That’s a good one I used to run with my high school team. I love the idea of setting goals for number of points in a certain amount of time. Do you reward them for meeting their goal… or make them run sprints when they fall short?
Yes there are rewards, if they make a goal, then they don’t run, it they don’t make the goal then they do run. Running takes several forms. One of my favorites, only because it does such a wonderful job with conditioning. Are Pyramids. Although I don’t like running without accomplishing something with basketball, this one is too good to not do.
Take your whole team split them into two groups on the baseline, Group one sprints to the foul line a back, then to the half court and back. That is one. Then group two does the same thing while group one rests. So you get one for one rest. Then group one runs the sequence twice, then group two and so forth. I announce how many pyramids we are doing and it is usually 5 to 7. When they get to repeating the sequence to the limit which is say 7, then they repeat in down the pyramid, like this.
To run a 7 pyramid, you start with one work you way up to doing 7 then you work you way down, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 hence the name.
You go up the pyramid and then come down the pyramid. a 6 pyramid will take somewhere around 20 minutes, with plenty of rest inbetween each set. Hope I have explained it fully.
I call this drill 1 on 1 Scramble. Get your team together in two lines under the hoop on the baseline, about 6 feet from eachother. The coach should stand in the middle. The coach takes the ball, and throws it as far as he wants.
(U should favor the kids who you now aren’t as fast as their opponents). The kid who gets the ball then turns around and plays offence. The kid who doesn’t get the ball, plays defence. They keep going until the kid with the ball scores, or until the defender gets the ball.
Thanks Greg and Ryan for getting this started. Both suggestions are excellent for youth practice!
-Coach Pat
Hey Coach – cool idea. Looking forward to seeing the drills from all the coaches in our group. Here’s one I call “Speed Layups”
Form two lines at the half court stripe, both facing the basket. Each has a ball. At the coaches signal, the first players in the respective lines dribble ‘race’ toward the same basket. Both attempt to make their layup, one on the left, the other on the right. Penalize the losing player with laps or pushups, and double penalize them if they don’t make their layup!