HOME Basketball Drills Passing Technique

Basketball: Chest pass to wall

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

Eric, Coach

DESCRIPTION

Players work with a ball each and pass the ball against the wall so that the wall bounce passes the ball back to you.

Repeat.

COACHING POINTS

Start with the ball close to your chest (fingers should be spread around the ball).

Step into the pass and extend your arms as you push the ball towards your team-mate.

Look at the receiver as you make the pass (not at the ball).

Finally remeber to straighten your wrists and follow through (the pass will go where your fingers are pointing).

READ MORE

READ LESS

OFTEN USED WITH...

catch player in possession:

Player 1 (Blue) is trying to catch the other players whilst in possession of the ball.

Passing

Chest Pass Variation:

Two players standing opposite each other. Both pass the ball to each other using chest passes.

Passing

Circle pass with Defender:

Players set up a circle with one defender in the middle and one ball per group.

The players on the outside of the circle must pass the ball and try to keep it away from the defender.

The defender stays in the middle until they steal or deflect the ball. When that happens, the pass who threw the pass will become the next defender.

Warmup

Ball Movement - Chest Pass:

Player 1 rolls the ball out to player 2, who in turn picks the ball up and gives a bounce pass to player 3 (in one action). Player 1 then goes behind player 4 and player 2 goes behind player 3 so the practice keeps going.

A progression would be to introduce a chest pass

Passing

1057482

1008

SIGN UP NOW FOR FREE

search our library of 650+ basketball drills
create professional basketball coaching plans
or access our tried and tested basketball plans

Basketball

JOIN SPORTPLAN FOR FREE

search our library of 650+ basketball drills
create your own professional coaching plans
or access our tried and tested plans

Basketball

LATEST FROM THE BLOG

The 2025 British & Irish Lions Tour: What To Expect

As the Lions tour approaches with their first tour game this Friday against Argentina, we look ahead at what the fans can expect to see from both sides as the tour in Australia approaches...

June 18th, 2025

Cam Hughes