Basketball: Defensive Conditioning

Speed, Speed, Speed! This week's mid season session is an intense team session designed to improve the speed and decision-making ability of your team

Defence wins you championships! Coach your team how to cover, help and recover on defence and build a team difficult to beat.

Basketball conditioning with a twist. It?s not all running and boring exercises, condition your players whilst putting a smile on their faces with sharp, intense drills to test their legs and their hands.

Introduce players to this teamwork defensive system - communicating and moving using the defensive slide to support one another at the back!

Players stand on each side of the hoop.

On the coach's whistle they will jump and touch the backboard 5 times, before then turning and sprint back on defence.

Have cones set up as shown in the image.

Players will start at the 1st cone and defensive slide from cone to cone.

Once the player gets their outside foot to the cone the player will push off of that foot and change direction.

1 offensive player and 1 defensive player.

The offensive player will dribble through the cones, once the player has reached the last cone the player will dribble towards the basket and shoot a jump shot.

Set players up as shown in video clip.

The baseline offensive player will drive towards the basket.

The help defender will come over and stop the drive.

The player with the ball will pass to the other offensive player. The receiver of the pass will shoot the ball.

The defensive player will sprint out and challenge the shot.