Basketball: Defensive slide

Fast feet, circuits and sprinting - Get your players back in the game and working hard with this basketball fitness session!

One player has a ball and their partner faces them. The person with the ball then dribbles the length of the court, constantly changing direction. The defender has to shadow their movement whilst running back to protect the basket.

Try to keep the players wide.

Set out cones to split the court in half, with your players working in pairs.

The player with the ball should dribble the ball up the court in a Zig Zag pattern.

The second player will be playing passive defence. They should be in front of the attacker at all times but are not actively trying to steal the ball.

The defensive player must try to cut the dribbler off at each of the the lines (cones and touchline) using their outside foot so that the dribbler has to change direction.

They continue to do this until they reach the end of the court at which point players then switch roles and repeat the drill in the opposite direction.

Split players into groups of 3. One player has a ball and throws it to the middle player, who in turn throws the ball to the third person in the group. Once the initial passer has passed the ball the run to put pressure on the receiver.

Cones will be set up as shown in the video. Two players will be competing against each other.

On the coach's whistle the players must touch each cone 5 times. Once they have done that it is the 1st player to grab the cone in the middle.