Coach Steve Masiello’s 5 Basketball Drills for Maximum Skill Development

If you want to improve your basketball coaching, then, you should improve your players’ basketball drills through the basketball training. Steve Masiello, who is the Manhattan head coach and the long time assistant of Rick Pitino, has demonstrated five drills to change your basketball coaching.

The five drills that Masiello has presented include those that would improve players’ skills in dribbling, ball handling, and shooting. These are open court moves series, 3s, 2s, 1s, 8 in 30, 9 on the fly and the 1 on 1 drill. Masiello states that this is not done randomly but it is a step-by-step process. So, before a player could go into the next basketball training, he should be able to perform or complete the first basketball drill.

The first one in Masiello’s list is the open court moves series. This basketball training is similar with the full court dribble or jumper series, because both require that the player dribbles from one end of the basketball court to the other, execute a move and then continue until he has reached the goal. Furthermore, the player has to perform the moves both from the right and left. The first to be executed is the hesitation dribble where he starts from the right. The last dribble in the hesitation dribble must be performed near the three point line as he will angle to the basket for a layup shot. He then does the same process but with the left side.

The next one is the spin dribble. In the spin dribble as the basketball training, the player must take the ball with himself on the spin. This is considered as a difficult move after which, he has to perform the spin dribble with the left side.

The next one is the 3s, 2s, and 1s which is a 42 point shooting drill with the use of three different shots from the seven spots on the floor. The player has to perform shots and then gain 42 points to complete this basketball drill. This is good to enhance the shooting skills from different ranges of the floor. The coach can also see on which range the player excels in shooting and in what range he needs improvement as well as practice.

The “8 in 30” is a basketball drill for layup or finishing. This basketball drill is teaching speed, success and focus. This is a significant basketball drill as it will develop the player’s layup skills. And at the same time he will improve his skills as well as his speed. Focus is an important factor in basketball and this basketball training will help the player in improving it.

The fourth one is the “9 on the Fly” which is a 3 point shooting drill and is also serving as a conditioning drill that is truly excellent. This will be a good basketball training to enhance the players’ shooting ability of doing three point shots. Three point shots will be of great help in scoring as it gives more score gaps to the other team.
The last one is the “1 on “1 drill. With this basketball drill, the coach can put into practice all the basketball skills his players have. This could be a sort of summary of all the things the young players have learned from the four basketball drills.

Say thanks to Coach Masiello for coming up with such an idea.

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