Drills After The Warm-Up. PART II

Фото: Drills After The Warm-Up.

In the second part of this article I will continue to talk about my training "routine." I used this series of exercises for many seasons during my coaching experience with Adecco Estudiantes and it remained always the same.

DRILL 7: OPPOSITE SIDE

The drill starts with three, or better fourth group of three players (diagr. 1). Player 1 pass to 2, player 2 to player 3. After the pass 1 runs in the middle of the court, receives a pass from 4 and goes to the basket.

Then he runs for receiving the pass from 4 and to go to the basket. Then the players, who passed the ball moves to different spots on the other side of the court, as shown on diagr. 2. 1 gets his own rebound and make the same routine toward the other basket (diagr. 3).

This is a very intense drill.

DRILL 8: REACTION AND SPEED

With the help of the conditioning coach we use some speed and reaction drills using the ball and adding the competition as motivational elements. Naturally, we need to make a very good warm-up, increasing progressively the intensity.

The two players, one on offense, one on defense, are set at the mid court line. 1 passes the ball to 2 and 2 makes a fake and go to the basket and drives hard to one of the two baskets. The defender reacts and run on defense (diagr. 4).

Options:

• Same drill with back and forth passes between the two players. At the whistle the player with the ball is on offense ande the other is the defender.
• Same basic drill, but starting from the baseline (diagr. 5).

Another drill is shown on diagram 6 were the coach pass the ball to one of the two offensive players on the baseline. The defender on the same side of the pass, touches the baseline and recover on defense for helping his teammate who is playing 2-on-1.

DRILL 9: 5-ON 5/6 ON-6

We play 5-on-5 or 6-on-6, until one team scores a certain number of baskets.

We give the following rules:

• The player cannot giving the ball back to the same player from whom he received it.
• They cannot remain in the same spot after the pass.
• All the offensive players must stay on the offensive half court when the shot is taken if not the basket is not valid.
• On the personal fouls, baseline or sideline out of bounds, we apply all the normal rules, 24-second, traveling, etc.

DRILL 10: 5-ON-0

We play half court or full court for reviewing the offensive sets and the transition. We run this drill with two teams of five players on both half court.

DRILL 11: WAVE

Four players on the court as shown in diagram 7. 1 passes to 3, who popped out to the 3-point line. 1 then cuts in the lane, received the ball back from 3, throws it on the board, gets the rebound and passes back to 3 who has moved to the corner. At the same time 2 fakes to go to to the right and then goes to the wing, receives the ball from 3 and passes to 4 who has popped out to the 3-point line. After the pass, 3 replaced 2 in the middle of the court (diagr. 8). Right after he has passed the ball to 4, 2 fakes to go to the right and then cuts in the lane, receives the ball back from 4, throws it to the board, gets the rebound and passes back to 4 who has moved to the corner (diagr. 9). 3 fakes the cut in the middle and then goes out the 3-point line and receives the pass from 4. In the same time 2 goes from the painted area to the corner, while 1 fakes to inside the painted area and then move to the wing for receiving the pass from 3 (diagr. 10). Now 1 has the ball on the wing and has two options: he can pass to 4 who uses the screen high of 3 to go out the 3-point line, or he can serve 3, who after the block up, cuts to the basket. In the first case, after receiving the ball, 4 pass to 2 on the weakside wing, in the second case, 1 after the pass, moves to the corner ready to get a possible pass from 3 (diagr. 11). Full court fastbreak option: four players on the court.

At the coach whistle, 4 throws the ball to the board, gets the rebound and pass to 1 near the corner. After this pass, 4 runs in the mid lane to the other basket. At the same time 3 fakes to go in the painted area and run out the 3-point line while 2 starts to run along the sideline to the other basket. 3 receives the ball from 1 and makes a long pass to 2, arrived in the other mid court wing. 2 receives and dishes to 4 in the painted area for a shot (diagr. 12).

DRILL 12: 3-ON-3

We play 3-on-3 in a half court. If the defense gets the rebound or steal the ball, we will do the fastbreak. If the basket makes two consecutives baskets, the defense becomes offense and viceverse (diagr. 13).

DRILL 13: 2-ON-2 INTERNAL, 3-ON-3 EXTERNAL

As you see in diagram 14, we play 2-on-2 in a half court with two assistants. After the basket, one of the defensive player take the rebound and pass to the nearer assistant who serve the playmaker of the three offensive players ready to on the mid court line. They will play 3-on-3 to the other basket but with rules that help the fast- break: the external offensive players cannot cross the mid court line until the playmaker receives the ball; the defenders can intervene only after the playmaker receives the ball (diagr. 15).

DRILL 14: 4-ON-4-ON-4

We play 4-on-4 games in continuity. There are three group of four players who play 4-on-4 games in continuity (diagr. 16). In this way we work on the counterattack.

We play games:

• with screens;
• with no screens;
• with direct screens;
• with undirected screen;
• with or without dribbles.

About the defense: differet kinds of defense on the direct screen, undirect screen and blind screen; internal players defense on low post.

I hope that this selection of exercises will help your training and can be the basis on which to create others that probably better satisfy your necessity.