Basketball Drills and Skills

Ball Handling

A skilled ball handler understands the basic fundamentals of protecting the basketball which include:

Body Position. Bend your knees and keep the ball low and protected in traffic.

Dribble with your fingertips.

Keep your head and eyes up.

The most effective ball handling moves involve a change of pace or a change of direction.

“The Daily Dozen”

A change of speed – acceleration.

Stutter.

Crossovers

Step back, look up and go.

Step back and cross.

Hesistation.

Fake crossover.

Between the legs.

Around the back.

Spin.

Combination move – Fake cross to spin.

Combination move – Spin, between the legs to crossover.

Drills

Use a zig-zag defensive slide drill to work on your change of direction dribbling moves.

Pre-game layup lines. Use a particular move before getting to the basket. Change the move from the opposite side. The rebounder should dribble hard to the corner and spin dribble before passing the ball to the next person in line.

Start at midcourt with a defender five feet behind you. Speed dribble in for a layup with the defender in pursuit.

Advance the ball to midcourt versus two defenders.

Dribble tag with one ball handler attemptin to tag six opponents in thirty seconds. Change the court space, length of time or the hand you are allowed to dribble with to change the game.

Run your sprints, suicides and 17’s, while dribbling.

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