This traditional 2-on-1 – Classic Half-Court Drill teaches offensive players how to read the lone defender in a half-court setup. It sharpens spacing, passing angles, and finishing under pressure, while developing defensive anticipation.
Objectives
- Optimize decision making.
- Practice inequalities numerical.
- Put into practice the feints defensive.
Contents
- Boat
- Step Zero
- Stops
- Outputs
- Shot
- Entrance to basket
- Changes of hand
- Change of pace
- Feints
- The defense of player with ball
- Defense of the player without the ball
- Numerical superiority
- 2×1
Recommended age
- From 10 years onwards (minibasket: category alevín).
Number of players
- From 3 players forward.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 6-8 min (on the equator temporary gradually introducing variants).
Equipment and facilities
- 1 ball available for each wave.
- A half-basketball court (or court whole if you have more players).
Initial layout and description of the 2-on-1 – Classic Half-Court Drill
Distributed 2 rows in the center circle, a balloon and the other without ball on the opposite side.
On the first of each row out and play a 2×1 against the sole defender. To resolve, either because they have finish in the basket either because the defender has recovered the ball, is left to defend the attacker, who was the last to touch the ball.
Recommendation: in case of availability of court as a whole, you can do that when the defender to recover the ball attack another ring next to the attacker that was not the last to touch the ball.
Variants
- Must end with entry to the basket by one side given.
- There’s that end up pulling (below the ring, outside the area or from the three-point line).
- You have to dial before a particular time.
- You have to resolve with a maximum number of passes.
- You have to resolve with a maximum of boats.
- It is necessary to resolve a given number of passes and boats spread out between the couple attacker.
- The new defender will be the defender that was not the last to touch the ball.
- 1×2 – Classic in the half court.
Note: all variants are combinable.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
