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I would love to hear any comments or feed back from anyone visiting Drill Zone. Very interested in what drills my readers want to know more about.

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Weak Hand Development

I love 2 ball dribbling at practice because it forces kids to use their weak hand. Last summer I really concentrated on finding weak hand drills to use in practice.. Coach Eastman from the Celtics has great weak hand drills. I have read so much of his stuff that he makes available online I can’t remember where I heard him talk about the importance of Weak Hand Development. He points out a great idea that if you spend 5-10 minutes a day on just your weak hand how much better you will get. I don’t like to do the same drills every day so we went out and found 20-30 great drills that can be used to develop the weak hand. Probably used 10 of them. If you have any ideas, questions or comments let me know.

http://www.box.net/shared/cxhmfpi3u0

John Wooden's Rebounding Drill

Great drill to work on timing for your posts and conditioning for all of your players. Simple old school drill from Coach Wooden.

http://www.box.net/shared/82e7tfvtpb

Clock At Practice

I think one of the best parts of our practice has to be the use of the clock. Our manager is in charge of setting up the clock before practice everyday and we time just about every drill.

Benefits

1. Keeps coach on time with each drill
2. For our competitive drills kids see exactly how we are doing
- My favorite drill is a transition drill where we have to score 55 layups in 5 minutes and kids see exactly how well or bad we are doing for the 5 min period
3. For shooting drills we rotate every 30 seconds and the manager hits the horn button and keeps me from having to yell out switch
4. Helps coaches transition from drill to drill at a faster pace
5. We will put 7 minutes on the clock and switch at 3:30 having 2 different groups for fundamental work
6. When I say put 45 seconds on the clock everyone in the gym knows to get to the sideline because we are going to run sideline to sideline 6 times in 45 seconds and keep doing it until everyone makes it.
7. I give our guys 5 minutes for a drink at least one time during practice. They know they have the rest of the time to get in part of their 100 required free throws for the week.
8. We get out of school at 2:40 everyday and we start practice at 3, I start the clock after my last class so they know how much time we have until practice will start.

Now as a head coach I have at least one assistant and a manager to help me run the clock at every practice. As a lower level coach I never was able to use this. I think it could still be done but isn't quite as easy. If you are lucky enough to watch college teams practice you will notice how good some coaches are with using the clock. They also have 3 assistants and 9 student managers to help out which makes their job a little easier.

Bruce Weber Shooting Drill

Great shooting drill that I took from Coach Weber at the Nike Clinic this spring.

We love this drill because it forces kids to create space and control their bodies when shooting at a fast pace.

http://www.box.net/shared/zsbjihfny2

Partner Layups 2

Here is a drill that we started doing this summer as part of our weak hand development series.

This drill allowed for some quick competition while focusing on weak hand development. For us this drill works because we have 8 baskets. You might have to adapt the drill to fit the space you have available.

http://www.box.net/shared/nquaa1esvi

Weak Hand Development

One thing that our coaching staff decided to focus on has been weak hand development. After reading a lot of information from Kevin Eastman we decided to spend 5-10 minutes every practice working on our weak hand. Last year we felt our players went from horrible at using their weak hand to adequate. Hopefully with continued focus it will keep getting better.

In the past year I have spent a lot of time finding different drills to do in practice that focus on the weak hand. I will be posting a lot of these drills on here. I would also love any feedback or drills that other people are using.

http://www.box.net/shared/0gfrq93efh

Last year we started doing this drill right after ball handling. In a couple of minutes we could get more practice than 5 minutes of layup lines.

Simple Free Throw Drill

Beat the pro free throw drill

You can use this in practice or have players do this on their own.

Each made free throw counts as +1 point
Each missed free throw counts as -2 points

We have players try to get to +7 or -7 to win or lose.

A simple addition that might help free throw shooting for your team.

Augustine Drill

Drill I have been doing for 6 years to work on passing and pivoting.

http://www.box.net/shared/4q83av48fb

This is a great drill to prepare for pressure defense. Easily adaptable for your team.

Full Court Florida Passing Drills

This is a drill that I took from a Billy Donovan Video. There are a lot of notes available online about his coaching style and videos.

I feel that these are 2 drills that can be used at almost any level of basketball. The 3 man drill is very common, but I hadn't ever seen the 4 man drill before. I have had a lot of success using these 2 drills in our skill development package.

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http://www.box.net/shared/4q83av48fb

Full Court Layups

This is a drill that I use several times per week in practice. I started using this instead of layup lines. I feel that it simulates game speed much better than any layup drill that I have ever tried to use in practice. Drill can be preformed in many different ways. We usually break team into 2 groups with one group doing this drill for 5 minutes and switching with a ball handling group on the buzzer.

Like most of my drills I took this drill from another coach.

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Feel free to let me know what you think of this drill or any questions you may have.

Welcome Post

Thanks for checking out my basketball blog.

I was motivated to start this blog after reading several blogs on a daily basis. There are great blogs out there that break down plays and offer coaching tips. I have never been able to find a blog that focuses on drills and practice. Hopefully some of the information on here will be able to help you or one of the coaches on your staff.