Basketball Sports

There can be no overstating the importance of basketball practice drills that teach the fundamental skills of the game. Every player at every level needs to continually work on developing his basic skills – NBA greats still shoot hundreds of foul shots a day, dribble through cones and run basketball passing drills. That’s why they’re great.

No matter how complex your plays are, or how strategically-minded your players are, to get the ball into position for someone to score requires good basic skills. And to do that consistently requires good practice drills that place importance on the right areas.

Effective passing drills should do several things:

1. Stress Good Fundamentals. In the first couple of practices of the pre-season, many of your passing drills will focus solely on one type of pass – how to throw a chest pass, or an overhead pass, for example. From the beginning, teach proper form and enforce it. And then, as you introduce more complex passing drills, be sure to continue to stress good passing fundamentals – proper form needs to be enforced throughout all drills, at all times. When game time arrives, you want your players automatically using proper fundamentals – they can’t be out on the court trying to remember how to pass.

2. Teach a Variety of Passes. Be sure players know how to use a variety of passes – chest pass, bounce pass, overhead pass, push pass – since different situations will require different passes carried out. In your basketball passing drills, this could mean a simple drill run several times, each time focusing on a different style of passing; or one drill that requires several types of passes to be used in some pre-determined combination; or a drill that places the player in a situation and he must react appropriately, choosing to use the most effective pass for the situation

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