Basketball: Mirror Drill

Bumper defending session that's positively bursting at the seams with 10 Team Defending Drills!

Develop a fundamentally sound power forward! Use this session to work on all the skills required for a Power Forward, a critical position for any successful basketball team!

Basketball conditioning with a twist. It?s not all running and boring exercises, condition your players whilst putting a smile on their faces with sharp, intense drills to test their legs and their hands.

Start as you mean to go on! Get everyone to work hard and build up a sweat with this basketball skills, fitness and team-work session.

Set up as shown in the image.

1. Players will run to the first diagonal cone and close-out by chopping their feet.
   
   
2. They will then sprint to the cone at the half way line.
   
   
3. Once they get there, they will slide across the half way line to the other side of the court.
   
   
4. To finish they will back pedal to the baseline.

One player has a ball and their partner faces them. The person with the ball then dribbles the length of the court, constantly changing direction. The defender has to shadow their movement whilst running back to protect the basket.

Try to keep the players wide.

Cones will be set up as shown in the video. Two players will be competing against each other.

On the coach's whistle the players must touch each cone 5 times. Once they have done that it is the 1st player to grab the cone in the middle.

The pyramid should be completed within 30 seconds.

• Baseline to near free throw line to baseline;
• Baseline to half court line to baseline;
• Baseline to far free throw line to baseline;
• Baseline to far baseline to baseline.