Team Ballhandling Drills - Fun Drills for Dribbling and Passing

Discover 21 Fun and Effective Ballhandling Drills For Your Entire Team!

Your Ball Movement Will Skyrocket. Your Turnovers Will Disappear.

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What's Inside?

If you want your offense to hum like a well-oiled machine, with precision cuts and crisp passes - then this drill collection is just what your team needs!

Here's a sample of what's included in our Team Ballhandling Drills:

3 essential off-the-dribble moves every player should practice

The one ballhandling drill you NEED to do on the first day of practice (especially if you're working with kids under 10)

The Gauntlet: Teaches players to maintain control of the ball in traffic and make great decisions under pressure (even if you're getting fouled!)

Dribble Pivot Pass Drill: The absolute BEST way to teach basic dribbling, passing and footwork fundamentals

How to train your players to pass and catch on the move - this will do wonders for your transition game

The fastest way to build up your players' weak hand dribbling skills (way too many coaches ignore this!)

Man in the Middle Drill: Trains players to use pass fakes, step-arounds, and a variety of passes to out-smart a defensive denial

High-Low Cone Drill: A challenging dribbling drill that quickly improves your feel for the ball

Advanced Ballhandling Circuit: Working with more experienced players? See if they can handle this challenging 5-minute routine! (it's also great for ballhandling homework)

Penetrate and Pitch Drill: Quickly improves your team's spacing, movement without the ball, and offensive IQ

My favorite drill for teaching proper post passing technique. Most guards and wings get this wrong... and it results in far too many turnovers

An advanced 50 Passes drill that trains your kids to make crisp passes, cut HARD to get open, and move the ball against an aggressive defense

To shorten the learning curve and really make sure you and your players "get" this stuff immediately, every drill is explained with detailed diagrams and simple coaching tips and pointers.

You'll get step by step details and illustrations explaining:

The goal of the drill and exactly what skills will be developed

The number of baskets, balls, and cones (if any) required

How to rotate the players through each position

How long to run the drill for

Suggested variations to challenge your players' skills

Exactly which coaching points or concepts to focus on

Built By Championship Coaches

Corry Irvin
(Whitney Young Magnet High School, Chicago IL)

7-Time City Champions

8-Time Sectional Champions

2-Time IL State Champions

Illinois Coach of the Year

Josh Thompson
(Bishop McGuinnes Catholic High School, Greensboro NC)

North Carolina State Champions

Greensboro Coach of the Year

Northwest Conf Coach of the Year

Forsyth County Coach of the Year

George Maya
(Mayfield High School, Mayfield NM)

3-Time NM State Champions

13 State Tournament Appearances

9-Time District Coach of the Year

New Mexico Coach of the Year

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Changing Coaches Lives Across the Country

Showed me which fundamentals to work on at every practice, and how to incorporate new concepts. For inexperienced coaches, it's a good introductory how to. And it has good info for the more experienced coach looking for new ideas.

David Coenen

7th grade Appleton North Girls Basketball Club, Appleton, WI

Our team went from having a four win season to going 18-4! Thanksgiving Preseason Champs, Runner up in the League Championship, & The Elementary Citywide Champs! The plans made my practices easy to run & gave the players skills to use in game time situations.

Willie Warren

Johnsontown Road Elementary, Louisville, Kentucky

With your help, I coached my 6th grade elementary team to an undefeated season (11-0) and winning the Elk Grove Unified School District Basketball Championship. We defeated every opponent by 15 points or more, averaged 54 points per game & our opponents averaged only 31 points per game against us.

Joel Quiban

John Ehrhardt Elementary School, Elk Grove, CA

The drills were easy to follow, and included great ways to teach fundamentals. The kids love all the different drills. We went undefeated and won the Rotary League championship!

Alejandro Burciaga

Oxnard, CA