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Basketball: Red, Blue, Red, Blue!

Great tool for bringing focus to practices. Began using it last year...

Eric, Coach

DESCRIPTION

Players work in pairs and move around the court, trying to keep dribbling to a minimum.

Before being allowed to make a pass the ball must pass through a gate, the next player must then also pass the ball back through a gate of the other colour.

Players progress like this until they have made 6 passes.

COACHING POINTS

After completing 6 passes players sprint around the outside of the court to the back of the queue for the other group.

Progression:

Players must both pass using a chest pass, then a bounce pass.

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Rapid Response Passing Drill:

This is a simple drill to improve the speed of passing of players.

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Possession and Passing on the wing:

Players will set up as shown in the animation. With the basketball starting in the corner line.

The ball will be passed from the corner to the line at the top.

Once passed that player will run towards the free-throw line and receive the ball back.

When that pass has been made, the player from the top line will run around the cone and towards the basket where they will receive the ball for a shot.

Players will switch lines.

Shooting

Round in a circle:

6 Players in a circle with 2 players in the middle of the circle. The outide players start jogging around the circle and throw the ball into the middle to one of the players they continue jogging around before the middle player throws the ball back to another player.

Introduce another ball into the practice.

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Passing movement inc. Hand off pass:

Two groups of players with one ball and one player between the groups on the side.

Player 1 passes to player 3 and runs straight to receive a pass from player 3, during this time player 2 makes a run and then receives a hand off pass from player 1. Player 2 then makes a pass to player 4.

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