4 Player workouts, part 1: offense

Written by Coach Peterman

I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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October 5, 2016

4 Player workouts, part 1: offense

by Coach Nathan Hill

This 4 player workouts packet contains 16 pages of drills designed for skill development and offensive breakdown for your system. I have written down our team’s favorite drills that we use in season and in the offseason. I use these drills and this packet all season long when we plan our practices. I like to keep our practices from being repetitive, and keep things fresh. I also do not want to throw a new drill at them each day, and waste time explaining the drill. We will use the same basic principles of what we want to teach, and then maybe change the drill. We can also introduce the drill in small groups and then introduce to the entire team.

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We will use a majority of these drills at the high school level, but they can be adapted to a 10 and under setting or any skill level. I also teach my son’s 9 under basketball team, and we stress many 1 v 0 drills and 2 v 2 drills in our practices. We want to have proper fundamentals first, and get plenty of repetitions improving the skills.

I have listed our shooting drills in the same progression – warm up / shooting form, shooting off the gun, rim finishes, and shooting off ball screens. We will progress from 1 v 0, to 2 v 0, into 1 v 1 and 2 v 2 situations. We have 8 shooting drills we use in practice that we have stolen from clinics, videos, and other coaches. We like to keep score and chart these drills to use as motivation for our players. The passing and driving drills are more dribble drive motion offense based, but are still good at developing good offensive skills. The next series are ball screen related, and how to set, read, and score off these. This is relating directly to our offense for the upcoming season.

I feel the most important aspect of planning practices and using drills should fit your personnel, and program philosophy. If you have any questions, feel free to email at njhill1976@gmail.com

Click on the pdf link to download the 4 Player workouts, part 1 – offense: