Mark out a small area, typically 1/3 of the court (depends on group size).
Select someone to be the tagger. All the playes in the group have balls and on the coach's call start to dribble around the area.
On the coach's second call the tagger starts to dribble with their ball after the other members of the group, trying to tag them. If they successfully tag someone then they now become the tagger.
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