Newsletter #297

Today's Theme... Partner Drills and 1-on-1

Basic fundamentals must be drilled every practice, even at the collegiate level. These partner drills fit in nicely after doing your initial ball-handing and dribbling drills. Have your players "partner-up" with another player of similar size and skill set.

These partner drills feature passing and catching, defensive close-outs, boxing-out, and shooting. You can quickly run through each of these drills, spending just several minutes on the passing drills, and a minute or two on the close-out and box-out drills. The shooting drills take a little longer.  

In the off-season, two players can use these drills on their own.

Coach Sherri Coale says:

See this page Partner Drills for details.  These are the driils included:

• Partner Passing Drills
• Partner Close-Out Drill
• Partner Box-Out Drill
• Sideline Dribbling Drills
• 1-on-1 Drill

There are six partner shooting drills:

• Catch and Shoot
• Shot Fake to Jump Shot
• Fake and Drive for Lay-up
• Any of the above with 1-on-1 defense
• Elbow Shooting
• More Partner Shooting

Again,  see Partner Drills for details.