Pre game drills basketball


















We might remind the players about maintaining good spacing, to move without the ball, set screens, and the importance of offensive rebounding. We might mention keeping under control, and avoiding turnovers. We will discuss how we want the game to flow We remind everyone to box-out, rebound and play hard on defense. We stress three attitudes on defense: contest every shot, protect deny the paint area, and one-shot only mentality If you are coaching a youth team, don't make a big deal out of who is starting.

Let all of your players take a turn at starting, as I think this creates better team chemistry. I tell players that "it's not who starts, but who can finish the game". Obviously, you can call it whatever you want. Whatever your mascot is, you just name it that. Once he catches it, the two guys are going to attack the basket. Those two players are going to, again, attack the basket.

Maybe he missed a lay-up. Tell him to keep working on concentrating or whatever it is. Boys at this age miss far too many layups. My thought is to eventually minimize missed layups and to ingrain that this is a higher percentage shot than taking a contested three point shot. While I agree the kids should be warmed-up prior to getting into the gym, many also want to watch the current game. Doing the lay-ups is a good way to warm-up, gain confidence in shooting and get a feel for the backboard.

Running plays, etc. Get the blood flowing, get them comfortable and then get started with the game. Thanks for your thoughts, Michael. I don't practice plays in my pregame warm up. More drills and thoughts are in this article about the pregame warm up. I've found that physically warming up and mentally warming up are two different things. Otherwise, they won't perform as well early in the game as they're capable. Once I made these changes and more mentioned in the article, it helped us perform better early in the game and develop over the course of a season.

This is spot on. When I see the team we are about to play using layup lines to warm up, I can tell that they have not put too much time into game prep. We use a 5 out motion offense, so our pregame warmup drills put emphasis on those fundamentals.

For example, we run a give and go drill where we have two wings and one player on the baseline with the ball. This player passes out to one of the wings, then immediately closes out on that player. The wing that received the pass, passes it to the other wing, then front or back cuts the defender to the basket, receives a return pass, and shoots a layup, or short jumper. The defender then turns around and becomes one of the wing players. We do this on both sides of the court, so that once you make your layup, you become the baseline player on the other side.

This gives us a ton of good passes, layups and jumpers, and closing out, pregame, and helps to put the players in the mindset of our offense. Member Login. Free eBooks.



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