This warm-up drill with 9 basketballs improves coordination, focus, and reaction time. Players are organized in groups with constant movement and passing patterns, creating a high-energy start to 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, and one more with the ball under each basket. 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 the other street and interior. 5 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 four receive the pass from the player with the ball closest placed in the bottom line and throw it away.
After the throw, every one gets his rebound, but the first that threw it. The player without the ball that was placed in the back line waiting to grab the first bounce, and start the next wave with the players that were previously located in the bottom-line.
In case of being 16, the 16th 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 17, the 16th and the 17th 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.
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 7 balls.
- Warming Bipolar.
- Warming basket to basket.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
Coach of the National Basketball (CES 2014)
