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Basketball: Cross Court Shooting Drill

Great tool for bringing focus to practices. Began using it last year...

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Setup the practice as shown.

Player 1 passes to player 2 before running up to first cone and receiving the pass back from player 2.

They then make a cross-court pass to player 3 before running around the cones to receive the pass back player 3. They then turn and shoot.

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2 on 1 Passing Drill:

Blue 1 and Blue 3 must try to exchange passes. White 1, the defender must try to intercept or deflect the pass.

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Full court passing and dribbling:

Players are stood in each corner of the court with two players stood in the center circle. On the coach's signal players 1 and 2 start dribbling before passing to players 3 and 4 respectively who return the pass.

Players 1 and 2 then dribble further before passing to players 5 and 6 and moving towards the elbow of the free throw line to receive the return pass from players 5 and 6. They then immediately pass to the players 7 and 8.

Players 1 and 2 should now replace players 5 and 6.

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Dribbling Circuit:

6 Players on the side line

2 Groups of players behind the base line

Players 1 and 4 dribbles the ball to the free throw line and passes the ball to the person standing on the side of the court, who immediately throws the ball back. The player then dribbles to the half way line and repeat. The players on the other side are repeating the practice going the opposite direction.

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Circle Pepper Pot:

Pass back to the person that passed it to you. Work around clockwise to begin then progress to 1,2,3,4 calling out 5s name before passing to him/her.

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