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Check out these basketball training drills given to us by proven coaches with years of experience at the high school, Div I college, and NBA level.
We created this page for you, THE PLAYER, so you don't have to search and sort through all of the drills to find what basketball drills will work for you. Many of the basketball drills can be done by yourself, but there are a few that you need a partner to perform the basketball drill.
Coaches, click on Basketball Drills For Coaches for drills that apply to you.
Players, use this menu to jump to the drills you want.
- Shooting Drills
- Offensive Moves
- Rebounding
- Passing Drills
- Dribbling Drills
- Warm Up Drills
- Post Play Drills
- Conditioning Drills
- Footwork
- Training Tips
Running Basketball Drills the Right Way
The first thing to realize is that the great players focus on the little things.
Too many players make the mistake of starting the basketball drill and just running through the motions.
To get better, each basketball drill needs to have a purpose and you really need to focus and work hard to improve.
We urge you to take the time to learn the detailed fundamentals of basketball. And then run the drills to train your body to perform those fundamentals without even thinking about it.
You'll notice that we tried to categorize the drills for you, but many of the drills here are multi-purpose which means they work on other skills as well. A ballhandling drill may include footwork and passing. A shooting drill may include conditioning. The multipurpose format helps to simulate gameplay and is time efficient to get the most out of the skill work.
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Three Competitive Shooting Drills
Wing Screen
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Shooting Off The Dribble - 30 Point Drill
Drop Step Shooting Drill
555 Shooting Drill
2 Player Decision Shooting
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String Spacing - Dribble At Post
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15 Offensive Moves Drills
One on One Moves Drill
Improve Getting Open and Scoring With The 1 on 1 Multi-Spot Game
High Five 1on1
1v1 Dribbling Drill and 3 Back Up Dribble Moves
1 v 1 Speed Dribble
1v1 Overlap
The Forgotten Lay Up Situation (Includes Drill)
1 on 1 Trailing Lay-Up Drill
2 Beilein Finishing Drills
Finishing Moves Off the Pass
Euro Finishing Drill
Foster 1v1 Drill
4 Small Guard Finishing Moves (Some Advanced Moves)
1 on 1 Post Moves Drill
Baseline 1 on 1 Escape
18 Layup And Finishing Drills
Kyrie Irving Mikan Drill With 12 Variations
Tight Cone Warm Don Kelbick
Wichita State Attack Series
2 Beilein Finishing Drills
3 Competitive Dribble Penetration Shooting Drills That Improve Spacing, Ball Handling, Passing, and Team Offense
Ballhandling Drill: Chair Changes
Ballhandling Drill: Drop step Dribble
Ballhandling Drill: Two Up, Two Back
Lay Up Progressions
1 on 1 Post Moves Drill
The Arc Finishing Drill
Euro Finishing Drill
1 on 1 Trailing Lay-Up Drill
Figure 8 Hook Shots
Beatem to the Left
4 Small Guard Finishing Moves (Some Advanced Moves)
7 Rebounding Drills
Basketball Drill: McHale Lay-Ups
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Mikan Drill
Taps Drill
Two on Two Box Out
1 on 1 Post Moves Drill
15 Agility / Defense Drills
Man in the Hole
Defensive Footwork Progressions
Star Close-Out Drill
Foster 1v1 Drill
Tight Spaces Ball Handling Drill
Bounce Closeout 1 on 1 Drill
1 on 1 Wing Close Outs
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Basketball Defense Drill: Corner Close Live
Defensive Slide Drill - Cup Slides
8 Passing Drills
Two Ball Combo Drill
Pair Passing
Monkey in the Middle
3 Wall Passing Drills
String Spacing - Dribble At Wing
String Spacing - Dribble At Post
Partner Pass and Pivot Drill
15 Dribbling Drills
2-1-0 Stationary Dribbling Drills
Ballhandling Drill: Two Up, Two Back
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The Arc Finishing Drill
Cone Grab Finishing Drill
Extension Footwork
Tight Cone Warm Up
Separation Dribble - Down and Backs
4 Dribble Moves To Complement A Killer Crossover
Tight Spaces Ball Handling Drill
1v1 Dribbling Drill and 3 Back Up Dribble Moves
Dribble Screens
Two Ball Dribbling
Basketball Pick and Roll Drills
1 on 2 Pressure Ballhandling Drill
12 Post Play Drills
1 on 1 Post Moves Drill
Figure 8 Hook Shots
2 Beilein Finishing Drills
Mikan Drill
Kyrie Irving Mikan Drill With 12 Variations
Low Post Chair Pivot
Split Post Chair
Power Dribble Into
Rapid Fire Post Moves
Drop Step
Drop Step Counter
Develop Your Drop Step Move With This Roll The Ball Drill
9 Warm Up Drills
Dynamic Warm Up
3 Cone - Groove Finishing Drill
Tight Cone Warm Up
Separation Dribble - Down and Backs
3 Wall Passing Drills
Star Close-Out Drill
Capture The Flag Dribbling
Dribble Tag - Everyone It
10 Conditioning Drills
Defensive Slide Drill - Cup Slides
Improve Your Ability To Finish At The Rim With The Corner Finishing Drill
Improve Your Shooting and Conditioning With The Hornacek Shooting Drill
Man in the Hole
1v1 Overlap
Star Close-Out Drill
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Rapid Fire Post Moves
Continuous 1 on 1 Games
12 Footwork Drills
1 on 1 Ball Tough Drill
1 on 1 Zipper Cut Drill
Jump Stop Drill
Chair Pivot
Post Moves and Skills: Drop Steps
Wing Combo
Partner Pass and Pivot Drill
Perimeter Chair Rips
Getting Open - Wing Cuts
How To Greatly Reduce Turnovers With These Body Control Drills
Defense Drill: 1 2 3 Progression
Improve Getting Open and Scoring With The 1 on 1 Multi-Spot Game
Training Tips: Partner Shooting Drills or Shooting By Yourself
If you are training with a partner or by yourself, here are some great ways to organize your shooting drills to maximize efficiency and to make the drills as game-like as possible. That way, you actually shoot better during games instead of just during practice!
You also learn a great way to practice game-like reactions that are random without a defender. Prior to the shot, you dont know what youre going to do. Just like a game, the repetition changes each time on whether to shoot, attack, or pass.
Partner Shooting - Change Location of Passer
Many players make the mistake of practicing all of their partner shooting drills with one rebounder under the basket who continuously rebounds and throws the pass back out. There is certainly a time and place for this.
However, if you always practice this way, youre making a big mistake! How many times during the game do you receive passes from many different locations on the floor? Probably a lot.
Instead of having the passer under the basket, you position the passer to different locations on the floor where you typically receive passes during the game. That way, you are practicing shooting from areas that you actually receive passes.
In the following video, NBA trainer Don Kelbick explains how to do this with your shooting drills.
Shooting Drills By Yourself - Spin Outs
If youre shooting by yourself, many shooting drills can be adapted to work for you.
One simple way is to use spin outs. You would spin the ball out away with backspin. Then you would cut to the ball, turn and face the basket, and shoot.
Here is a video that shows you how.
Using Chairs - For Cuts Where Spin Outs Dont Work
You can also place the ball on a chair prior to each shot to practice cuts where spin outs are too difficult to use and still execute the cut. L-Cuts, fades, and curl cuts would be good examples of this.
Here is how to use chairs to do this.
Using Chairs With a Helper
Chairs can also be good to use if you have somebody to help who is not a very good passer. This can be a friend, sibling, guardian, or anybody. After each shot, they can retrieve the ball and place it back on the chair. That way, you dont have to waste your time rebounding. You can immediately start your next repetition and you can get more shots up.
Important! How To Game-Like Random Shots With No Defenders
Every time you catch the basketball, you have to make choices. However, how often do you do that in your shooting drills!? A lot of players and even coaches neglect this important aspect of shooting drills. This can be part of the reason that some players shoot great during drills but poorly during games! They never train this way!
1v1 shooting drills and other 2v2 and 3v3 drills can easily take care of this. And you should definitely do a lot of this in your training.
However, what do you do if you dont have a defender to compete against? Or maybe you just want to get a lot of shooting repetitions up to develop some rhythm and confidence?
Its simple. You just need to find somebody who can rebound and display visual cues.
Even if you have defenders available, this can be used as a great progression prior to playing against live defenders.
Coach Chris Oliver shows you how to do this in the following drill. Its pretty cool!
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