The Warm-Up Drill with 3 Basketballs builds rhythm, coordination, and communication. It’s ideal for activating players at the start of practice through continuous passing, quick reactions, and spatial awareness.
Objectives
- Practice passes and shot after receptions in the race and stop.
Recommended age
- From 8 years onwards (Minibasket: categories, benjamin and fry).
Number of players
- From 6 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
- 3 balls.
- A pitch whole of Basketball.
Initial layout and description
The exercise starts with a pass from the player who has the ball to the player without the ball. 2 pass 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 receives the pass from player of the bottom line with the ball and finishes.
After the throw, the shot gets his rebound and that was the bottom line without the ball catches the first bounce, and start the next wave next to the player who previously gave the pass from the end line.
In the case of 7, the 7th player can be placed under a bushel basket, and fight for the rebound with the other player without the ball placed in the bottom line.
In the case of 8, the 7th and 9th player can be placed each under a basket, and fight for the rebound against the other player without the ball placed at each end line.
In case you be more, you can put the players without the ball to the bounce of both baskets. If we want everybody to move, we can do the Warm-up 5 balls.
Variants
- Give certain 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 5 balls, warming with 7 balls, warming with 9 balls.
- Warming Bipolar.
- Warming basket to basket.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
Coach of the National Basketball (CES 2014)
