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Basic Scoring Drills

25. May 2012

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Here’s another series of drills which Coach Tim Springer has used to help improve the scoring of varsity high school players in San Antonio and the Spartan basketball program. Enjoy!

[learn_more caption=”Read and React Movement into Shooting” state=”open”]

Read and React Movement into Shooting
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Fig.1: Player 1 attacks the cone and passes to player 2 on the slide.

Read and React Movement into Shooting
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Fig.2: Player 2 attacks the baseline with one dribble jump shot. Player 1 cuts to weak-side and receives a pass from the coach for a one dribble jump-shot.[/learn_more]

[learn_more caption=”1 vs. 1 Zig Zag to Live” state=”open”]

1v1 Zig Zag to Live
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Fig.1: Offense and defense go through zig zag slide drills to half-court.

1v1 Zig Zag to Live
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Fig.2: At half-court, players swith offense and defense, and play 1 on 1 live for the score.[/learn_more]

[learn_more caption=”Read and React Shift to Attack Help Defense” state=”open”]

Read and React Shift to Attack Help Defense
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Fig.1: Player 1 attacks the cone into a pass to player 2 on the slide.

Read and React Shift to Attack Help Defense
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Fig.2: Player 2 attacks the cone (help defense) with a change of direction into a jump shot. Player 1 makes shallow cut to weak side and recieves pass from coach. Then attacks cone with change of direction into jump shot.[/learn_more]

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2 Player Scoring
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Fig.1: Player 2 dribbles out to wing while player 1 flashes to top of the key. Player 1 takes pass into a rip and floater over coach.

2 Player Scoring
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Fig.2: Player 1 gets his own rebound and repeats the process with players in opposite roles.[/learn_more]

[learn_more caption=”Multiple Changes to Basket Attack” state=”open”]

Multiple Changes to Basket AttackPlayers makes change of directions through the cones. Slides up to top cone, makes a move, attacks elbow
with same move and scores.[/learn_more]

[box type=”download”] You can download the above Drills as a PDF file here! [/box]

[box type=”bio”]Tim Springer has worked with D1, international and WNBA players. In 2011, Tim was a coaching intern with the San Antonio Silver Stars (WNBA) and was responsible for player development. Please make sure to drop-by his Website, Facebook page and YouTube channel.[/box]

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