The Shooting Drill – Active Trio is a high-repetition basketball shooting exercise designed for three players rotating through roles: shooter, passer, and rebounder. This drill improves shooting rhythm, footwork, communication, and game-like conditioning. Ideal for youth and advanced players alike, it emphasizes constant movement and teamwork while reinforcing essential fundamentals. Add this versatile shooting drill to your practice to develop accuracy under pressure and build game-ready habits.
Objectives
- To improve the shot after stop (you can add money and/or after a change of hands).
- Perform volume shooting.
Recommended age
- From 10 years onwards (Minibasket: category alevín).
- More suitable for large Basket.
Number of players
- Groups of 3.
- Can be 2 or 4.
Recommended time
- Rounds of 2 minutes. Recommended to do between 3 and 5 rounds.
Equipment and facilities
- 2 balls for each group of 3. Each group of 3 is occupying a quadrant, and may be two groups of 3 in each half court.
- A half Basketball court.
Initial layout and description
The player without a ball disposed in the launch area (outside the zone), a latching with the ball under the hoop, and a third with the ball under the hoop.
The latching takes the first pass is going to tap out to the couple that closes the rebound. Essential work guidelines of communication (singing ‘Kick’ when the ball leaves the hands of the shooter).
Once the shooting, which was to tap it prepares to receive a pass from another player who had the ball.
The player who made the first shot goes to get his own rebound and continue the cycle (pull, self-rebound, pass, tapping, close, and so on in that order).
Variants
- You can define a zone of release (outside of the area, shots of 3 points).
- May require you to make a shot after pot.
- May require you to make a shot after one or more changes of hand.
- You can put cones in various positions around the perimeter to receive the pass after the exit of a turn (pretending to get out of a lock indirect).
- You can make a competition intra-group. At the end of the round the two people that have recorded will have an extra chore to do (abdominal, lines, etc…). In case of a tie, the same load for the members of the trio.
- You can increase the intensity of exercise asking you to change the tap by the plug.
- You can also make competition together with all groups (no group against group, because then tap and/or plug is not to be would do with effectiveness):
- If you are 6 you make 3 pairs (each member of a couple to compete in the same group against each other 2 members of two other couples).
- If you are 9 3 trios (each member of a trio competes in the same group against each other 2 members of the other two trios).
- If you are 12 you need to take 3 quatrains (each member of a quartet competes in the same group against each other 2 members of the other two quartets).
Note: All variants are combinable.
Cedric Arregui Guivarc'h
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
