Improving your skill level is a must if you want to improve in basketball. Players who regularly take part in drills to improve their shooting, ball-handling and defense will get better from an individual perspective and also help their team. When a player starts to improve his skill level, his confidence improves and teammates and coaches tend to depend on him more.
Shooting Accuracy Drill
Start off at the free-throw line. Drive to the basket and make five layups with your dominant hand. Then do the same drill with your other hand. In order to proceed to the next step, you must make at least eight of 10 layups. Now take 10 free throws. You must make at least eight of them or you have to take another set of 10 free throws until you make eight. Move to the right baseline, about 15 feet from the basket. Take 10 jump shots and you must make eight of them before you move to the left baseline where you have to make eight of 10 as well. Do this every day prior to the start of practice to improve your shooting ability.
Ball Handling Drill
One of the most important things for a ball handler to do is dribble with her head up. If a player is dribbling and looking at the ball, she won't see teammates when they break open. In order to facilitate dribbling with her head up, give the ball handler a tennis ball. Have her start at the baseline. As she dribbles the ball in her dominant hand, she should toss the tennis ball up in the air with her weak hand and catch it. Keep doing this until she gets to the far baseline and then continue to dribble the basketball and toss the tennis court on the return trip down the court. This will force the basketball player to dribble with her head up.
Defensive Cut-Off Drills
Give one player the ball at the far corner. Position the defensive player at the corner of the free-throw line. As the player in the corner dribbles down the baseline, the defensive player must slide down to meet him and cut him off. The offensive player cannot be allowed to drive the baseline. The defensive maneuver must come quick enough to force the dribble to move away from the baseline so he can't get a layup. Have each player take on the offensive role and the defensive role. This lets each player know how important it is to keep the opponent from driving the baseline for an easy layup.
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