The Warm-Up Drill with 7 Basketballs emphasizes focus, timing, and coordination through continuous passing and movement.
Ideal for activating players physically and mentally at the beginning of practice.
Objectives
- Practice passes and shot after receptions in the race and stop.
Contents
- Boat
- Step Zero
- Stops
- Outputs
- Shot
- Entrance to basket
- Changes of hand
- Change of pace
- Feints
- Counterattack
Recommended age
- From 8 years onwards (Minibasket: categories, benjamin and fry).
Number of players
- As of 9 players on.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 4-6 minutes.
- Ideal to mark as a goal score a certain number of baskets in a time limit (necessary to make a preliminary assessment of the level of the group for the goal to be attainable).
Equipment and facilities
- 5 balls.
- A pitch whole of Basketball.
Initial layout and description
They are placed 4 players in each bottom line, the corners with a ball each. Depart from a basket to 4 players with a ball.
The exercise starts with a pass from the player in the center to a partner located in a band. The 4 of them are passing the ball to reach the basket to the contrary. The player who receives the pass within the triple ends with a shot or inning. The other three receive the pass from the player placed in the nearest corner and pull.
After the throw, every one gets his rebound, but the first that threw it. The player that was placed in the center of the back line waiting to grab the first bounce, and start the next wave with the players that were previously located in its bottom line.
Variants
- Give a few specific types of pass.
- Give a minimum number of passes.
- Players must end with a definite end (input, kick, stop, etc…).
- There is that end with shots of 2.
- There is that end with shots of 3.
- You can put a target individual or collective.
- Warming up with 3 balls, warming with 5 balls, warming with 9 balls.
- Warming Bipolar.
- Warming basket to basket.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch Coach of the National Basketball (CES 2014)
