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Jim Thorson - Practice

Drills and Footwork

Development

Table of Contents

1. Footwork Development 2

2. Shooting Drills 19


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Footwork Development

Table of Contents

Explosion Drill 3

Explosion and 4 Pivots 4

Ankle Bounce 5

High Knees 6

Butt Kicks 7

Lunge 8

Karaoke 9

Skips 10

Cross Skips 11

Skip and Rip 12

Inside Out Skips 13

Hurdler 14

Overhead Toss 15

Change Direction 16

Transition 17

Closeout 18


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Development

Explosion Drill

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2

Footwork Drill Series

- Drill emphasizes making an explosive 1st step

- Place a cone out in front of each line

- Coach says: "Ready ---- Go"

- Players explode pushing off of their right foot (make sure they

also do the drill pushing off of their opposite foot)

- Jog to half court


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Development

Explosion and 4 Pivots

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2


- Drill emphasizes making an explosive 1st step

-Once players make an explosive 1st step, they job to the cone,

jump stop and make pivot:

1st Trip = Front left pivot

2nd Trip = Front right pivot

3rd Trip = Reverse left pivot4th Trip = Reverse right pivot

- Players will perform all 4 pivots in a row and then the next player

will step in


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Development

Ankle Bounce

1 2 3 4 5


- Players move down the floor with a slight bounce in their knee

and foot

- As they move down the floor, they do ball rotations around their

head, waist


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Development

High Knees

1 2 3 4 5


- Players move down the floor while doing high knees

- As they move down the floor, they pass ball around their head,

under the leg that is currently up (high) and then around the waist


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Development

Butt Kicks

1 2 3 4 5


- Players move down the floor while doing butt kicks

- As they move down the floor, they alternate dribble with a

basketball


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Development

Lunge

1 2 3 4 5


- Players move down the floor while doing walking lunges

- As they move down the floor, they figure 8 pass the ball through

their legs on the lunge step


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Development

Karaoke

1 2 3 4 5


- Players move down the floor while doing the karaoke step

- As they move down the floor (facing their right), they should

keep the ball in their left hand as they swing their arms across

their body

- On the way back, they should put the ball in their right hand


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Development

Skips

1 2 3 4 5


- Players move down the floor while doing quick low skips to the

FT line

- When they reach the FT line, they perform regular skips to half

court


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Development

Cross Skips

123


- Players perfom diagonal skips focusing on crossover skip angles

- Need to focus on bringing the outside leg across the body as you

change direction


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Development

Skip and Rip

1 2 3 4 5


- Players move down the floor while doing regular skips

- While they skip, they should simulate a low ball rip as they begin

to make their skip movement


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Development

Inside Out Skips

123


- Players perfom diagonal skips focusing on inside out movements

and performing a low ball rip on the change of direction


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Development

Hurdler

1 2 3 4 5

low rip low rip low rip low rip

low riplow rip low rip low rip

high rip high rip high rip high rip

high riphigh rip high rip high rip


- Players move down the floor while doing the hurdler movement

(over hurdle and under hurdle)

- They should alternate low rip while going under the hurdle and

high rip while go over the hurdle


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Development

Overhead Toss

1 2 3 4 5


- Players make an overhead lob pass

- The ball should bounce once

- Players make 1 explosive step to catch the ball

- Should not have to double step


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Development

Change Direction

1 2 3


- Players turn and sprint


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Development

Transition

1 2 3


- Players sprint, and then back peddle back


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Development

Closeout

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- Cross step to start and closeout to the elbow

- Shuffle back


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Shooting Drills

Table of Contents

Catch and Shoot 20

Readline Backcut 21

1 Player Removed 22

Flare Shooting 23

Crossover Middle 24

Inside Out Power Slide 25

Inside Out Crossover 26

Mikan 3 Man Weave 27


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Development

Catch and Shoot

1

2

3

4

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2

3

4

5

Shooting Drills

- 1 minute on the clock

- Pass to shooter coming off the chair/cone

- Players alternate lines

- After you pass, you then are coming to shoot and will receive

pass from the other line


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Development

Readline Backcut

1

2

3

4

1

2

3

4

5

Shooting Drills

- Baseline to wing back cut = 1 dribble power finish

2

3

4

1

2

3

4

5

1

Shooting Drills

- Middle backcut = catch and shoot


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Development

1 Player Removed

1

2

3

4

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2

3

4

5

x1

Shooting Drills

- Shooting drill the emphasizes the defender going under a screen

- Flare cut with shot fake, rip and drive middle

- Players coming from the top will flare cut, shot fake, rip and drive

baseline


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Development

Flare Shooting

121

Shooting Drills

- 1 flares while 1 dribbles at the key and passes to 1

1

2 1 2

Shooting Drills

- The person who passed to the shooter, now becomes the

shooter and flares

- A continous drill with new passers and shooters


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Development

Crossover Middle

1234

Shooting Drills

- Sell move with the feet and create space

- Finish across the rim


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Development

Inside Out Power Slide

1234

Shooting Drills

- Inside out move with the ball in the right hand

- Finish with a power slide


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Development

Inside Out Crossover

1234

x2

Shooting Drills

- Attack the cone with an inside out move with the right hand and

then crossover to the left

- Finish with a hip turn


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Development

Mikan 3 Man Weave

5 4 3

Shooting Drills

- 3 person Mikan drill

- 4 starts the drill by making a Power Lay-up

- 5 comes behind him to pull the ball out of the net

54 3

Shooting Drills

- After 5 grabs the ball out of the net, he makes a Power Lay-up

on the right side

- 3 comes behind him to pull the ball out of the net

- Keep repeating in a 3 man weave rotation

Note: you can add other finishing moves such as jump hooks,

jump hook face ups, jump hook pivot, jump hook put back

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