Basketball: Defensive Conditioning - Jump, touch, turn and sprint

Speed, Speed, Speed! This week's mid season session is an intense team session designed to improve the speed and decision-making ability of your team

Complete versatility! Coaching the fundamentals to develop an effective small forward

Basketball conditioning with a twist. It?s not all running and boring exercises, condition your players whilst putting a smile on their faces with sharp, intense drills to test their legs and their hands.

Start as you mean to go on! Get everyone to work hard and build up a sweat with this basketball skills, fitness and team-work session.

Set up as shown in the image.

1. Players will run to the first diagonal cone and close-out by chopping their feet.
   
   
2. They will then sprint to the cone at the half way line.
   
   
3. Once they get there, they will slide across the half way line to the other side of the court.
   
   
4. To finish they will back pedal to the baseline.

The coach will roll the ball in a straight line.

When the ball is rolled the players must sprint to get in front of the ball

Once the player has got in front of the ball, the player must go backwards in a defensive stance to stay in front of the ball.

Players set up as shown in video clip. The line of players under the basket will each have a basketball.

1. A pass will be made from the line on the baseline to the line at the top.
   
   
2. Once the pass has been received that player will take a shot. The passer of the ball will run out and do a close out with their hand up to contest the shot.
   
   
3. After the shot has been released they will turn and box out to get the rebound.

This drill will need 1 person with a ball and a offensive and defensive player who will be set up between the cones.

The offensive player will run from cone to cone. The defence must keep a hand between the ball and the offensive player to stop a pass going through.