Basketball Drills

This index of basketball drills is broken down into several different facets of the game -Use them in your practice planning: – just plug them in to the appropriate portion of your practice:

Warmup Drills

Defense Drills

Transition Drills

Scrimmage Drills

ShootingDrills

Perimeter Play Drills

Offense Drills


When you decide on any new basketball drills for your team,  consider some or
all of the following general coaching principles to ensure that your players and
team derive maximum benefit.

  • Keep It Simple, Sam (K.I.S.S.) – if faced with the choice of running a
    simple drill or a complex one that teaches the same basic skills, I would
    choose the simple drill nearly every time, if all other factors were even.
  • Try to select drills that make the most of the practice resources at
    hand (balls, players, instructors, hoops, etc) and still allow the coach to
    maintain his role as instructor.
  • Use simpler drills to introduce new skills, use more complex drills to
    combine separate skills
  • Make sure that the drill addresses the same fundamental skills that you
    emphasize in your broader offensive and defensive schemes. For example,
    running a shooting drill that produces motion offense shots only makes sense
    on teams that run motion offenses.
  • Make sure that the basketball drills you run are appropriate for your
    age group.
  • Always find the key teaching/coaching points in any drill and
    communicate them to your team when you run the drill in practice