The off-season is the most important time of the year for your players to work on their individual games. The best strategy is to identify a player’s weaknesses and focus on improving them as much as possible. Ball handling is one of the many aspects of the game they can aim to improve.
This two-step conditioning drill, while simple, is a great way to toughen your kids up a little bit, and will also show you who your best rebounders are.
This is a great drill that you can tailor to whatever your needs are, whether they be ball handling, shooting, or finishing around the basket.
The Guard Dribble Up drill teaches players to sprint up to the top of the key, and set a pick on the small forward's man. This final pick and roll is the play we've been looking for the whole time!
This starts in a 2 guard front with a wing. And generally, 2 is out front and 4 is out on the corner of the basketball court.
This offensive play is a great triangle fill option that focuses on playing a two-man game.
This drill focuses on chinning the basketball on a rebound, v-cuts, outlet passes and finishing with contact.
This defensive drill demonsrates an aggressive, attack defense that will deny passes out to the wings. It explores the timing and execution – every detail down to the exact angle of the screen.
This drill is called half court-half court because we have to stay within the half-court setting and half of the half-court width-wise so that we're not running into one another.
The offensive player's goals here is to take the ball as hard as he can to the basket, while the defensive player's try to defend the dribble for eight seconds. You want to see a great battle of offensive talent and defensive talent.
One of the most common plays you'll see run from the stack is a baseline exchange between the two wings. With either the bigs setting screens for the wing players, or one wing player setting a screen for the other. That's why this fake baseline play works so well, as with combined with the screen and roll action up top, the defense will have a very tough time covering all the options.
This is a great conditioning and ball handling drill that teaches toughness and how to handle multiple dribblers.
Transition defense takes place during this drill, along with offensive spacing and movement. This drill also teaches players to play fast.
In this drill, players are going to give you a good pass, take two hard steps down, get open, and catch and sweep. Catch and sweep and going to the rim, as soon as he goes, and then the next player will go right behind him.
You don’t really take a whole lot of jumpers off this because you’re trying to drive the ball or get the person who’s rolling in.
This is a grueling defense drill because each offensive player that comes in is going to push and get to the basket as hard as he can. The defensive player has to be able to be ready to defend not one, not two, not three, but four or five or six players.
This transition defense drill teaches players to play fast while focusing on offensive spacing and movement.
This offensive play involves all of the mechanics you practice daily. From footwork and dribbling to passing and shooting, this simple yet effective shooting play shows you how to combine each to make a last second 3 point shot.