Online Basketball Drills

Passing Drill: Man in the Middle

This passing drill will teach your basketball players how to pass under pressure using fakes to create open passing lanes.

Basketball Strength and Conditioning

Amazing practice plans are critical to your coaching success (and I’ve already given you plenty of those), but equally important is the proper emphasis on strength and basketball conditioning with your players. All levels of athletes can benefit from conditioning training. It is important to take the following suggestions in combination with your knowledge of your players’ ability level as to avoid injury.

Basketball Plyometric Workout

If you really want to take it to the next level with your team, I recommend the following basketball plyometric exercises to really get their heart pumping and fast-twitch muscles engaged.

Dribble Drill: Body Control

Geat ballhandling drill to develop body control in your basketball players- especially in the younger ones.

Defending the Flash Post Drill

This defensive drill will help your team to prevent the ball from being entered into the post. Teach your players to be physical without fouling.

Pivot Shot Drill

This shooting drill will help your basketball players learn to use the pivot effectively. This is a must have drill to add to your basketball coaching portfolio.

Two Man Fast Break Drill

This basketball drill will help teach your players to run the lanes wide and time their cuts to receive the basketball in transition.

Pitino V Cut Drill

Motion offenses (or any set play) will break down very quickly if you are unable to enter the basketball into the wing. This basketball drill teaches your players how to get open on the wing to start any set play.

Offensive Rebounding Under Pressure Drill

When your looking for a basketball drill that will teach offensive rebounding under pressure- look no further.

Celtic Full Court Passing Drill

This drill will help develop full court passing skills, teaching your players to pass, catch, and finish on the run.

Zigzag Drill

Give this basketball ballhandling drill a try. Not only is this a good dribbling drill but it also teachs your players to be better defenders.

Defensive Footwork: Bob Knight Shuffle and Slide Drill

This defensive basketball drill will help your basketball players develop their defensive footwork: shuffles and slides.

Flex Offense

The Flex Offense is probably one of the most popular offensive sets used in basketball today. Similar to the Motion offense, the Flex offense uses a lot of movement by the players and screens to create open holes for lanes to the basket. What separates it from the Motion offense in many respects is that a coach will design set plays, or use one of the standard flex sets to run this offense.

Motion Offense

The motion offense is a generic term for any offense that uses court movement, cuts to the ball or the basket, and good screen setting. The one thing that separates the Motion offense from others is that it is quite flexible — you don’t have to have set plays every time you bring the ball down the court.

Coach-Parent Relationship

Being a basketball coach is not always easy...especially when you run into "difficult basketball parents" or DBP's as I like to call them. You know the parents I'm referring to: overbearing, overly competitive, and overly engaged in your decisions as a coach.