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
- Defensive Communication Combo Drill
- 6 on 4 Shell
- Shell Drill – Defending Basket Cuts
- Pass and Chop Defensive Drill (zigzag drill)
- Shell Drill: Defending Penetration.
- Shell drill-rebounding
- Shell Drill: Defending Motion
- Shell Drill: Scramble
- 3 man defensive shell drill and closeout
- Shell Drill: Baseline Penetration
- Take the Charge Full-court Basketball Drill
- Shell Drill: Transition
- Ask The Coach: Running the Shell Drill with Big Men
Transition Drills
- Lanes Straight – 2 basketballs
- Fast Break Drill: Bigs
- Weave Shooting Conditioning Drill
- Fast Break Drill: Big Men in the Middle
- Flattening the Defense
- 3 man weave. A Great Drill when taught correctly
- 5 man flow fast break drill
- Tip for Pressing Teams
- 2 Man Fast Break Drill
- Fast Break Drill: Every Pass
Scrimmage Drills
ShootingDrills
- X-out layups shooting drill
- Team Free Throw Shooting Drill: 2 Line Free Throws
- Halfcourt Weave Warmup Drill
- The best basketball shooting drill out there
Perimeter Play Drills
Offense Drills
- Jab Step Series|Coaching Guard Play
- Motion Offense Core Movements Drill
- 3 tips for more efficient practices – teaching players to run plays
- Motion Offense Coaching Basics
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






