As these are some of the best drills that you can use for kids! We even added some fun basketball drills and games for kids. These fun drills and games can be a great way to start and end practice.
That way, many of your players develop a lifelong passion for the game and play it well into the future! If you want to quickly skip to a certain section, you can click on any of the category links below. And just a heads up, many of these drills are multi-skilled.
This means one of the shooting drills might also work on footwork, ball handling, and triple threat moves. A ball handling drill might include shooting, defense, and rebounding. We wanted to make this as easy as possible for a youth coach working with 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders and the middle school coach who works with 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
So we tried to organize the basic drills towards the top of each category. And have it get more advanced as you go down the list. Even advanced youth teams can start each season with the basic drills as you review and solidify certain skills. The only difference is that you might progress more quickly.
On the other end of the spectrum, beginners can utilize almost all of these drills. Of course, you might have to make some modifications and progress a little slower. And sometimes, you have 7th and 8th grade teams that need to spend more time on the beginner drills. Basketball is one of the latest developing sports from an age standpoint. With younger teams or beginners, you might spend a little more time on drills without defenders. This helps you coach the technical skills of shooting, ball handling, passing, and footwork.
As alluded to earlier, advanced teams might spend a little more time on technical skills as you refresh and develop your foundation at the beginning of the season. Even with beginners, a general rule of thumb is to alternate between drills without defenders and drills with defenders.. As you go through these drills, you want to adapt the drills to make them the right fit for your players. You want them to have some success and you also want them to be pushed.
Here are some common ways Place two basketballs in the center between the two lines. Call out two numbers; those students must race to grab one of the basketballs. After the players retrieve the ball, they must throw chest passes to teammates down their line toward the basket.
The last player in line attempts a shot. The first team to make a shot earns one point. The person who shot the ball goes to the other end of the line and the game repeats. Each player must have a basketball to use. Square off a relatively small area on the basketball court; the area must have enough room for at least four people to dribble. Players all start on the baseline in two lines. One in front of each line. Players will begin the drill by making a chest pass out to the coach in front of them.
Immediately after making the chest pass, the player will explode to the free-throw line where the coach will pass the ball back to them. After catching the basketball in a jump stop, the player must must pivot around using good technique and square up to the basket before shooting or attacking the ring. Chase down layups is used to teach players to finish layups at full speed and with pressure. Since youth basketball is normally decided by which team makes more layups, this is a basketball drill you must use often.
The drill begins with two lines of players down each end of the floor. One offensive line and one defensive line.
The coach starts the drill by bringing the offensive player out from the baseline and gives them an advantage over the defender who always starts on the baseline. The offensive player must try and finish at the rim and the defender must pressure the shot without fouling.
The pair then passes the basketball to the next player in line at their current end of the floor. Pressure is a simple and fun end-of-practice game that works on shooting free throws while under pressure. When a player makes a free throw, the person behind them is put under pressure. Once someone makes a shot, the pressure continues until someone misses.
The coach will instruct the players to use different dribbling movements to dribble up to either the half-court line or full court. The first thing the coach must do is determine the area the players will be dribbling in. As more and more players get out, the coach must pause the game and make the playing area smaller.
This continues until you have a winner. Instead, the aim of the drills is to navigate through and dodge all the other players using dribbling moves and by being creative with the dribble. Scarecrow Tiggy is a fun drill that involves everyone dribbling around trying to avoid two taggers. When a dribbler is tagged, they must stand in the place they were tagged with their legs wide and hold the ball on top of their head. They can be freed by other dribblers by rolling the basketball through their legs.
The first thing the coach must do is decide on the playing. This will depend on the amount of players you have. After that, select two players to be taggers and get everyone else to spread out around the court. When a dribbler is tagged, they are now out and must wait on the sideline for the rest of the players to be caught. The aim of the game is for the minnows dribblers dribble from baseline to baseline without getting tagged by the sharks taggers. If a shark does tag them, they must stand in the spot they were tagged, place the basketball between their feet, and now are scarecrows.
If a minnow comes within reach of them, they can tag them to get them out. Partner passing teaches the absolute basics of passing and allows your players to practice different types of passes and the correct technique. The coach will explain which type of pass they want performed and then the players will pass back and fourth to each other.
This main goal of this drill is to teach the basics of spacing between players and also to teach decision making on the catch. When players are young we all know they constantly sprint towards the basketball.
Select one or two players to be the defenders and get the rest of your players to spread out in a small area like the three-point line. When the drill begins, the defenders will run around trying to steal the basketball from the offensive team. The defenders goal is to get a deflection or a steal.
The offensive players must stay in one space and pass the ball around to each other keeping the basketball away from the defenders. It works on getting open, denying the offensive player, and making smart passes to limit turnovers. The first thing you need to do is split the kids up into two even team.
Preferably the teams are different colors so that they can differentiate between each other during the drill. The first thing that happens is that all players must match-up and stick to their individual opponent.
The goal of the drill is to move around make a certain amount of passes set by the coach without the opposition deflecting the basketball or getting a steal. No dribbling or shooting allowed. The amount of passes that must be made should be between 5 and 20 depending on age and experience. If the defenders get a steal or deflect the basketball out of bounds, it becomes their ball and the offense and defense switch roles.
The drill starts with 3 offensive players in the middle of the court, 2 defenders in each half court, and the rest of the players standing out of bounds at the half court line. The three offensive players attack two defenders at one end of the court and will either score or the defensive players will get the basketball.
Once the two defensive players get the basketball either by steal, rebound, or because the offensive team scored , they outlet to the next player in line at half way who sprints in to help advance the ball.
The two defenders now become offensive team and they get an extra player from the sideline to give them 3 players. They now attack towards the other end of the court 3 on 2. As for the 3 previous offensive players, 2 of them become the next defenders and 1 of them joins the end of the out of bounds line. It will allow the coach to teach the different kinds of pivots and is a drill the players enjoy doing.
The coach must first create a large square in the half-court by placing four cones an even distance apart. There must also be another cone or D-man in the exact middle of the square. You can see where I recommend placing these cones in the diagram. Split your team up into four groups and send each group to a cone. The cones will be the starting position for each line. This is a simple but effective drill that will improve and allow you to teach jump stops and pivoting.
On go, the players begin dribbling at a comfortable pace towards the opposite end of the court. When the coach says stop, the players must immediately perform a jump stop. Once your players are comfortable with the jump stops and are performing them correctly, you can make the drill more advanced by adding pivots. This drill focuses on basic footwork fundamentals. Each group has one basketball and should start in a straight line behind either the sideline or the baseline.
The player starting with the basketball must begin the drill behind the line in triple threat stance. Their first action is to take two explosive dribbles out from the line and then perform a controlled jump stop. They then jog to the end of the line. No traveling when exploding off the dribble. A controlled jump stop. A controlled pivot. The only problem with this drill is that only two people can go at once so if you have a large group it might not be appropriate.
The first pair comes out and sets themselves up directly opposite each other on the two parallel lines of the key. The goal of the defensive player is to stay directly in line with the offensive player.
The offensive player must work hard to try and separate themselves from being in line with the defender by sliding up and down the line of the key. Defensive Specialist is a continuous drill that works on the different defensive movements players will make on defense including closeouts, defensive sliding, back-pedalling, and sprinting.
All players line up in a straight line on the baseline. Players perform this defensive course one-by-one. The first movement is a sprint and then close out to the cone in front. The player then back-pedals around a cone directly behind them, and then slides across to the other side of the court.
When the first defender slides past the line, that triggers the next player in line to start the drill. When the first defender has slid around the cone on the other side of the court, they again sprint to close out, and then once again slide to the opposite side of the court before returning to the end of the line.
This drill starts with two players at the free-throw line or top of the key depending on age and experience. Use both ends of the basketball court if you have two coaches so that players get to play more often. To start the drill, the defender hands the basketball to the offensive player. But to make the game quicker, allow the player to remain in the spot where he or she missed while the other players take their turns.
The player can start again at this point on the next turn. Note: There are other variations, with the most common being shots ordered around the three-point line. This is a variation of Around the World, but instead of taking turns, all players shoot at the same time until each player has made a basket from each predetermined spot on the court. A perfect merger of that age-old Scottish game and James Naismith's wonderful invention, the object of "golf" is similar to that of links, but on the hardwood.
The lowest score wins, and strokes or shots, in this case are tallied with every shot it takes for the player to make it in the basket. As a game for kids, golf teaches young players to shoot from spots all around the court. The game requires two or more players and one basketball. The first player beings on the first hole, a predetermined spot where he or she must shoot.
If the player makes the shot on the first attempt, the score for that "hole" is one. If the player misses that shot, they must shoot from where they grabbed the rebound.
The score for that hole is the number of shots it took the player to make the basket. Just like a golf course, you can do this from 18 different spots on the court. The lowest score wins.
Like musical chairs but with basketballs, this game requires one ball per player and a source of music. Put the balls in a circle and have the kids walk around the balls while music plays. Once the music stops, the players grab a basketball and shoot. When a player makes a basket, they sits down to show that they are finished.
The last player standing is out. This is a common game with variations played in almost every beginner youth sport. Select one or two players to be "sharks. The rest of the players will be the "minnows" and will line up along the baseline facing the sharks.
The sharks will not have basketballs, and the minnows will each have one ball. For the minnows, the object of the game is to dribble from baseline to baseline without their ball being stolen or knocked out of bounds by a shark. For the sharks, the object of the game is to eliminate as many minnows as possible within each round by stealing or deflecting their ball out of bounds. If a minnow loses their ball, they will become a shark in the next round.
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