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Netball: Circle Edge End Drill

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End drill – Feeding into circle

Set up: four corners of 2-3 players, 1 ball, goal third end of court.

Aim for the two groups of players on transverse line to hit the circle edge and feed ball into the circle to a shooter with a defending player.

Bottom left corner (A) player drives out along sideline. Receives a pass from the defending player in the circle.

Player from top left corner (B) drives straight into the court to receive a pass from the sideline player.

Player B passes back to player A and drives towards the circle edge where player A delivers a long ball to player B as close to the circle edge they can get. Player A joins line where player A started.

Player from top right corner (C) drives to circle edge to help feed pass into player D who has driven from bottom right corner into the circle as shooter.

Player B joins line player C started in. After player C delivers final pass to shooter, player C joins bottom right corner. Essentially, all players rotate anticlockwise around the 4 corners.

COACHING POINTS

Set up is relevant to video.

PROGRESSION

Add 2 balls! Speeds things up. Players have to have court and other player awareness. You may like to try for 5 ‘good ones’ and finish with shooters to the post. Encourage giving a go at shooting, even if miss, get the rebound and go again.

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Circle Edge Driving Drill:

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4+ players set up on half court.
One stationary feeder to set up in front of the centre circle with the ball.
One defender to hover just inside the shooting third.
Two attacking players, one from each sideline, run to meet in the middle, high five and then run out in a "V" to space.
Defender to pick up either of the attackers.
Feeder delivers the ball to the free attacker. They are to then pass to the attacker with the defender on them. The attacker needs to work hard to receive this pass on the circle edge.
Play the ball back with the defender receiving the next pass and back to feeder.

Attack

Delivering ball to shooters:

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Delivering the ball midcourt through to the circle edge/shooters

Set up:

Half court, two balls, 5+ players

1 player standing on base line, another player with the ball standing around the third line.

Description:

Note: The video shows the drill being played out with 2 groups of players, you could just focus on one group i.e. 1 line, 1 V driver. The description is based on one group.

Player on base line near shooting post, V drives towards court edge and receives a pass from the player in the line with the ball.

Player who passes the ball drives directly to the circle edge in a straight line and receives a pass from the player who has driven out on the V.

Player who had initially drove out now drives into a position under the hoop to receive a pass from their player and put a shot up.

Shooting

Beat the defender:

Set up: A wall, one third space, one ball, 4+ cones, 2 players.

4 cones are set up in a zig zag formation down the length of a third space towards a wall.
The ball is placed on the furthest away cone.
A defending player stands in the middle of the cones, they are to ‘pick up’ the attacker when they drive out.
The attacker, drives out towards the first cone and zig zags towards all cones to move past the defender and get the ball off the cone.
The attacker passes the ball to the wall and gets the rebound.

Movement