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Change Drill

Transition defense in a vital part of any defensive scheme, this drill helps instill this.

Instructions

You need two balls for this drill.

• Have a manager/coach stand at half cour with one basketball.
• Two teams of 5 scrimmage until the head coach yells ‘change’ or blows his whistle.
• The player with the basketball immediately puts the ball on the floor.
• The team that was on defense is now in a fast break situation going the other way.
• The team that was on offense is now on defense and must stop the basketball.
• The ball not being used should be retrieved by a coach, player, or manager and reset to the coach/manager at halfcourt.
• The ‘change’ aspect may be repeated as much as desired.

Variations

• You can set rewards/permissions for stoping the fast break.
• Sprints and pushups may be assigned for failing to stop the break.

Tips

• Emphaize that when the change occurs that the ball must be stopped at all costs to prevent an easy basket.
• Both the offense and defense must go all out so that both aspects of the transition game are worked on.
• This is an excellant conditioning drill when repeated several times.
• Empahize taking charges in this scenario.

Skills

Going from offense to defense

Players

5 on 5

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