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Photo: BORING IN DRILL FROM MY BOOK

The following computerized drawings are taken from my book--POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE GAME PLAN for WINNING BASKETBALL.

This is our Boring In Drill that I learned about from a book written by Coach Reed from Western Michigan U. dating from the 1920's. I believe that it is one of the greatest basketball drills because it involves so many things. We have lines at the extension of the free throw line close to the sideline. We have several basketballs that will be in use. There is only one shot taken in this drill and that is a driving lay-up off a pivot.

This computer drawing was made on Sport X Advantage Software and the following drawings used the same program. They are part of  over 100 drawings like these that are included in the book that is the title to Photo 2 page. Look to the Shopping Page for information relative to pricing and source to contact. Thanks very much for your visit to the P M A Basketball pages.

We have the basketballs on the right side of the court. The player in front will drive across the foul line using a left hand dribble to close to the far edge of the circle, jump stop, pivot his belly button out of the way and put the ball in his hand nearer the midcourt line. The first player on the left side will make a timing cut in a straight line at the belly button of the player with the ball. He   will take the ball off the hand of the teammate and use one dribble with the right hand to the right side of the basket, put the ball off the board and into the basket. Player that handed off rebounds and passes the ball to the shooter who is now out of bounds and they change sides of the court. Give this drill a try and I believe that you will like it. It is a rapid pace drill.

Photo: OUR PRESS BREAKER CHANGE OF SIDES FROM MY BOOK

Every team has to have some kind of attack idea when they want to beat a pressing defense. We have borrowed many ideas from Coach Dean Smith and this one is what we call OUR PRESS BREAKER CHANGE OF SIDES. We designate a player as our #4 and he always takes the ball out of bounds regardless where the throw in takes place. In the Diagram we have #1 rubbing off #2 and breaking toward the corner. #4 will pass in bounds to #1 and #1 will look to see if #3 is open up the sideline. In this instance #3 is not open so the ball is returned to #4 after he steps in bounds. #2 has moved toward the left sideline and he gets open for a pass from #4 and we have changed the ball from one side of  the court to the other. We want #2 to drive the ball to the free throw circle area in the offensive end. #5 always follows the line of the ball and at this time he is in the outside left lane that we call the Odd Interstate. #3 fills the right Interstate or even lane and we have players in our transition situation. #4 and #1 will trail and fill what we call  the curbs. #4 never crosses the midcourt line until the ball has crossed in our possession because he has the responsibility to defend the basket in the event that we lose the basketball.

Photo: OUR GLOBETROTTER DRILL FROM MY BOOK

This drill I have called The Globetrotter Drill for many years because in my growing up the Harlem Globetrotters did all kinds of things with the basketball that many of us at that time would have been sent home by our coach because of trying to do those things. This is a type of 3-man drill and our rule is that the player that passes to the post is the first cutter. This is like running scissors, split, or double cut off a post and we want the cutters to stay away from the post player. The post player when he receives the pass will do all kind of ballhandling skills that he knows and will make a blind pass to one of the cutters. We use this to practice ballhandling skills and to put on some type of entertainment. We let all of our players work at the high post in this drill and the replacement walks up behind the post player from the basket and alerts him that he is being replaced. We do not want to stop the action at any time. We shoot only lay-ups in this drill, too.

OUR PIVOT PASS DRILL FROM MY BOOK

We have 2  players in action at one time on this drill. We have the wing who is going to be the feeder to the postman as the cutter while our other players get into one of the lines that are not in the way as viewed in the diagram. The passer will make a pass to the post who has made a change of direction step and cut from the backside and stops in a good post up position about half way up the lane. The passer will make a good change of direction step and cut to the low side and away from the post. He will receive a quick pass from the post player and will start to drive to the basket and then he sees the post player rolling to the basket so he will hit him with a good, solid pass. Both rebound and then change lines. We use all of our players in drills for playing other positions. My belief is that you never know when you may want one of your smaller players  to post up against a smaller opponent and in this way he is learning some of the things that he will have to do.

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