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Basketball: 3 ball round the clock

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

Eric, Coach

DESCRIPTION

Setup: 4 players stand in a diamond with 3 balls. A 5th player stands in the middle.

To start the drill 1 of the outside players throw their ball to the player in the middle who has to return the ball the player who did not have a ball before the ball was thrown.

The middle player then rotates to receive the next ball and the drill continues in this way.

COACHING POINTS

The middle player needs to talk to make it clear which player is throwing the ball to them next (call their name, signal with their hands and make eye contact).

How quickly can your players get this practice going?

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OFTEN USED WITH...

All the Way Across the field:

Teams of 4 try and throw the ball across a pitch as quickly as possible, not missing any players out.

The first team to throw the ball 10 times across the pitch is the winner.

Throwing & Catching

Beat the ball:

Split the group into teams of 5. One team throwing the ball around posts.

One team running around the posts.

The ball starts by the batting square and has to be thrown to post one then 2 then 3 then 4 then back to the batting square.

The running team have to run and tag.

The first player in the batting square has to run to tag 1st post player this player has to run to release the player at 2nd post etc until the player on the forth post is tagged and runs back to the batting square.

Start again when ball and players are back in position again.

Best of 5 runs.

Conditioned games

Ground Fielding:

Long barrier Team A must roll the ball past team B to score a point (goal) and vice versa.

Ground Fielding

Catch the ball:

Ask the players to spread themselves and have 1 ball for the players to throw or roll the ball to each other.

The player in the middle has to try and catch the player in possession of the ball. or get to the ball before a player does if it is badly thrown.

Throwing & Catching

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