Basketball: 1v1 Zig-Zag to Jump Shot

Offence sells tickets but defence wins championships - Teach your players to take pride in their defence with this real game practice fundamentals session!

Defence wins you championships! Coach your team how to cover, help and recover on defence and build a team difficult to beat.

Produce a winning mentality amongst your group of players with an unbreakable team ethos. The improvements in your play may just surprise you!

Introduce players to this teamwork defensive system - communicating and moving using the defensive slide to support one another at the back!

Set up as shown in video clip.

When the ball is on that players side of the court they will deny.

When the ball is on the other side of the court, the players will come across and play help defence.

Once the ball has been passed to one of those players then they will play 2v2.

Set players up as shown in video clip.

The baseline offensive player will drive towards the basket.

The help defender will come over and stop the drive.

The player with the ball will pass to the other offensive player. The receiver of the pass will shoot the ball.

The defensive player will sprint out and challenge the shot.

Have cones set up as shown in the image.

Players will start at the 1st cone and defensive slide from cone to cone.

Once the player gets their outside foot to the cone the player will push off of that foot and change direction.

The coach or a teammate places the ball on the floor.

Facing away from the basket, player 1 (attacker) stands in front of player 2 (defender).

Player 1 then picks up the ball and attempts to get into position to shoot.