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Practice plan

• Shoulder rotations windmills forward and backwards
• High knees
• Heel kicks
• Sideways shuffle with arm swings
• Carioka
• Backwards
• Lung
• High Knee skip
• Knee lift with hip rotation
• Jump and run court width

BALL HANDLING:

• Seesaw dribbles, 10 each position
• Exercise with 2 balls figure 8

• Cone dribbling – hard dribble, head up

1. Around the cone left hand and right hand
2. Pick up cone left and right
3. Crossovers with shot

PASSING DRILLS:

Three man weave.

3 lane pass drill

with double team defense.Raptors

DEFENSIVE SKILLS/ABILITIES:

defensive positioning, defensive slides, close out.

Introduce fast break sideline push as a three man drill.

5on5 scrimmage

Practice plan 

Shoulder rotations windmills forward and backwards

High knees court width, Heel kicks court width, Sideways shuffle with arm swings, Carioka, Backwards, Lung, High Knee skip, Knee lift with hip rotation, Jump and run court width 

FIRST PART: INDIVIDUAL FUNDAMENTALS (30% of the allotted time)

BALL HANDLING:

• Seesaw dribbles, 10 each position
• Exercise with 2 balls figure 8

• Cone dribbling – hard dribble, head up

Around the cone left hand and right hand, Pick up cone left and right, Crossovers with shot

PASSING DRILLS: Passing Triangle with Shoulder to shoulder sweep and one hand push pass.

DEFENSIVE SKILLS/ABILITIES: defensive positioning, defensive slides

Ladder

Introduce fast break sideline push as a three man drill.

5on5 scrimmage

Shoulder rotations windmills forward and backwards

High knees court width, Heel kicks court width, Sideways shuffle with arm swings, Carioka, Backwards, Lung, High Knee skip, Knee lift with hip rotation, Jump and run court width 

FIRST PART: INDIVIDUAL FUNDAMENTALS

BALL HANDLING:

• Seesaw dribbling side to side, front to back, both hands
• Exercise with 2 balls dribbles same, alternating, crossover
• Cone dribbling – hard dribble, head up

Around the cone left hand and right hand, Pick up cone left and right, Crossovers with shot

17′s

SHOOTING FORM:

Curry curl shooting drill

Shot + Layup drill

DRIBBLE START AND PIVOT FOOT:

PASSING DRILLS: Passing Triangle with Shoulder to shoulder sweep and one hand push pass.

DEFENSIVE SKILLS/ABILITIES: defensive positioning, defensive slides.

Wind Sprint 

3on3 scrimmage

I have been attending a lot of coaching clinics and team tryouts over the last few weeks. I have noticed something about some of the best coaches I’ve seen. They are always offering vocal encouragement and instruction.

I here their voices non-stop throughout the gym time. Often correcting drills as they are being done, always encouraging the players for more. One more shot one more pass, do the drill one more time.
This is great coaching. Always challenging the players to give more, focusing on one detail at a time, keeping the players moving so they don’t dwell on errors.

These are not coaches that want to stop practice and hear the sound of their own voice while they give a presentation on basketball.

These coaches put the kids out there into the drill and get the players to correct along the way, thats the way to do it.  The players need to do the drills and make the mistakes and fix and improve with each repitition of the drill.

At the end of practice good coaches  have worked as hard as the players at their craft.

Wind Sprints or Suicides are a pretty common drill used for basketball conditioning. As a player or coach you have to focus on the details of these drills to get the most out of them. The wind sprint works on three things: cutting or change of direction, explosive speed, endurance conditioning.

As coaches we use this drill as a punishment and usually focus on endurance conditioning, but if we emphasize the cuts and change of direction then we start to get more out of the drill. Plant the stop and explode in the opposite direction.