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Table of Contents

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Footwork Development Shooting Drills

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Footwork Development
Table of Contents

Explosion Drill Explosion and 4 Pivots Ankle Bounce High Knees Butt Kicks Lunge Karaoke Skips Cross Skips Skip and Rip Inside Out Skips Hurdler Overhead Toss Change Direction Transition Closeout

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Explosion Drill
1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

Footwork Drill Series

- Drill emphasizes making an explosive 1st step - Place a cone out in front of each line - Coach says: "Ready ---- Go" - Players explode pushing off of their right foot (make sure they also do the drill pushing off of their opposite foot) - Jog to half court

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Explosion and 4 Pivots
1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

Footwork Drill Series

- Drill emphasizes making an explosive 1st step -Once players make an explosive 1st step, they job to the cone, jump stop and make pivot: 1st Trip = Front left pivot 2nd Trip = Front right pivot 3rd Trip = Reverse left pivot 4th Trip = Reverse right pivot - Players will perform all 4 pivots in a row and then the next player will step in

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Ankle Bounce
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Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor with a slight bounce in their knee and foot - As they move down the floor, they do ball rotations around their head, waist

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High Knees
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Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor while doing high knees - As they move down the floor, they pass ball around their head, under the leg that is currently up (high) and then around the waist

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Butt Kicks
1 2 3 4 5

Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor while doing butt kicks - As they move down the floor, they alternate dribble with a basketball

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Lunge
1 2 3 4 5

Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor while doing walking lunges - As they move down the floor, they figure 8 pass the ball through their legs on the lunge step

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Karaoke
1 2 3 4 5

Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor while doing the karaoke step - As they move down the floor (facing their right), they should keep the ball in their left hand as they swing their arms across their body - On the way back, they should put the ball in their right hand

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Skips
1 2 3 4 5

Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor while doing quick low skips to the FT line - When they reach the FT line, they perform regular skips to half court

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Cross Skips

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Footwork Drill Series

- Players perfom diagonal skips focusing on crossover skip angles - Need to focus on bringing the outside leg across the body as you change direction

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Skip and Rip
1 2 3 4 5

Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor while doing regular skips - While they skip, they should simulate a low ball rip as they begin to make their skip movement

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Inside Out Skips

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Footwork Drill Series

- Players perfom diagonal skips focusing on inside out movements and performing a low ball rip on the change of direction

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Hurdler
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low rip

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low rip

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low rip

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low rip

high rip

high rip high rip

high rip

low rip

low rip

low rip

low rip

high rip

high rip

high rip

high rip

Footwork Drill Series

- Players move down the floor while doing the hurdler movement (over hurdle and under hurdle) - They should alternate low rip while going under the hurdle and high rip while go over the hurdle

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Overhead Toss
1 2 3 4 5

Footwork Drill Series

- Players make an overhead lob pass - The ball should bounce once - Players make 1 explosive step to catch the ball - Should not have to double step

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Change Direction
1 2 3

Footwork Drill Series

- Players turn and sprint

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Transition
1 2 3

Footwork Drill Series

- Players sprint, and then back peddle back

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Closeout

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Footwork Drill Series

- Cross step to start and closeout to the elbow - Shuffle back

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Shooting Drills
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Catch and Shoot Readline Backcut 1 Player Removed Flare Shooting Crossover Middle Inside Out Power Slide Inside Out Crossover Mikan 3 Man Weave

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Catch and Shoot
5 4 3 2 1

4 3
Shooting Drills

- 1 minute on the clock - Pass to shooter coming off the chair/cone - Players alternate lines - After you pass, you then are coming to shoot and will receive pass from the other line

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Readline Backcut
5 4 3 2 1 5 4 3 2

4 3
Shooting Drills

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Shooting Drills

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- Baseline to wing back cut = 1 dribble power finish

- Middle backcut = catch and shoot

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1 Player Removed
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4 3
Shooting Drills

- Shooting drill the emphasizes the defender going under a screen - Flare cut with shot fake, rip and drive middle - Players coming from the top will flare cut, shot fake, rip and drive baseline

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Flare Shooting

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Shooting Drills

Shooting Drills

- 1 flares while 1 dribbles at the key and passes to 1

- The person who passed to the shooter, now becomes the shooter and flares - A continous drill with new passers and shooters

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Crossover Middle

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Shooting Drills

3 2

- Sell move with the feet and create space - Finish across the rim

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Inside Out Power Slide

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Shooting Drills

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- Inside out move with the ball in the right hand - Finish with a power slide

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Inside Out Crossover

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Shooting Drills

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- Attack the cone with an inside out move with the right hand and then crossover to the left - Finish with a hip turn

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Mikan 3 Man Weave
5 4 3 4 5 3

Shooting Drills

Shooting Drills

- 3 person Mikan drill - 4 starts the drill by making a Power Lay-up - 5 comes behind him to pull the ball out of the net

- After 5 grabs the ball out of the net, he makes a Power Lay-up on the right side - 3 comes behind him to pull the ball out of the net - Keep repeating in a 3 man weave rotation Note: you can add other finishing moves such as jump hooks, jump hook face ups, jump hook pivot, jump hook put back

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