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The Count von Count

The purpose of this drill is to enhance each player’s dribbling ability. Many players, especially young and/or tall ones, lack a good ball handling and dribbling control when forced to keep the head up and the eyes off the ball. The drill takes only a few minutes and demonstrate visible improvements within a short period of time.

Instructions

• Two players of equal dribbling ability form a pair.
• You need a lot of space, so use the whole gym.
• One player gets the ball and starts dribbling with the strong hand.
• The other player is moving back- and sideways while holding his hands high over his head (the higher the better), forming numbers.
• The player dribbling has to add the numbers of both hands and scream out loud the result.
• The player showing the numbers starts doing cuts to the side or the front.
• The player dribbling should try to constantly keep a distance of app. 2-3m to the other player.

Variations

• Use the weak hand for dribbling.
• Start moving around the hands showing numbers.
• Team up a strong with a weak player, it always motivating to see a player considered better then you losing the ball on your cuts while trying to beat his cuts afterwards.
• Team up a fast with slow player but good dribbler.

Tips

• The drill should not be used as a warm-up drill.
• The player dribbling is allowed to use the free hand for one or two dribbles when performing a sharp cut.
• The numbers should be shouted out constantly, not just when they are changing to keep the eyes fixed on the hands at all times.
• The coach should monitor whether the player not dribbling is still moving fast enough, performing cuts, (especially towards the dribbler), and keeps changing the numbers a lot.
• The exercise is very tiring, so make sure to change the ball possession every 45 seconds.

Skills

Keeping eyes off the ball while dribbling

Players

2

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