Basketball Workouts

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Driving and Dishing

Drive and dish is a term used to describe dribbling the basketball towards the basket, drawing defenders, then passing to create an opportunity for someone else. The best point guards spend time doing basketball workouts on specifically this so that they create options for their team mates. It’s a good workout for the entire team though, to create ball movement and reinforce offensive off-ball movement principles.

The team should start with no defence. It can be done with as few as two players, ideally three to five. One player drives the basketball, dishes to anyone else on the court, then returns back to outside the arc. The person who caught it then does the same, and the process is repeated. Players without the basketball should be moving around to fill the spots on the court created by the driver, as is the key point in every motion offence.

Building up to a scrimmage situation, the players can then do the layups or 3s scrimmage modification that starts with three drive and dishes before the game is “live”, or in other words, go through the motions for three drive and dishes before you play for real.

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