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Drills & Player Development

Where skill work becomes game habits. Practice-ready teaching progressions, small-sided games, shell concepts, shooting competitions, and post/perimeter development blocks — plus the coaching breakdowns behind them.

Coach’s featured drills

Six game-shaped teaching drills — each links to a full, drawn-up breakdown on a clean court.

DefenseYouth+

Closeout, Help, Recover

Teach stance, closeout angle, first slide, and recovery without turning shell drill into standing-around reps.

  • Players: 4-8
  • Time: 8-12 minutes
  • Constraint: no straight-line drives
ShootingHS+

Advantage Shooting: Drift and Lift

Make shooting reps game-shaped by pairing every catch with a drive read, spacing reaction, and one-second decision.

  • Players: 3-6
  • Time: 10 minutes
  • Score: paint touch + assisted shot
OffenseAdvanced

Backdoor Timing Windows

Train passer and cutter to read denial, wait for eye contact, and cut on the defender's top-foot mistake.

  • Players: 4-10
  • Time: 12 minutes
  • Constraint: cutter must change speed
Post PlayYouth+

Box Out, Pursue, Secure

Win the possession battle: make first contact, hold the box, pursue the ball at its highest point, and outlet to start the break.

  • Players: 4-10
  • Time: 8-12 minutes
  • Constraint: every miss must be boxed before the catch
TransitionHS+

Wide-Lane Advantage Break

Build habits for sprinting wide, filling behind the ball, pitching ahead, and flowing into your half-court action.

  • Players: 5-10
  • Time: 10-14 minutes
  • Score: advantage created by second pass
OffenseAdvanced

Ball Screen Read Ladder

Layer reject, pocket pass, snake, and throwback reads so guards learn to solve coverage instead of running routes.

  • Players: 4-8
  • Time: 15 minutes
  • Progression: coach calls coverage

All diagrammed drills

Every recovered drill, drawn up frame by frame — best first. Click any one to teach it and run it.

Player-development breakdowns

The teaching behind the reps.

All drills in the library →

How to Build a Shooter

Game shots, game speed, a score on every rep — how to structure individual shooting workouts.

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