4v3/3v2 Shooting (DRILL)

I posted this drill on Twitter a few days ago…one of my favorites…and it got a lot of love:

I decided to brainstorm and come up with a few different ways you could alter this drill to best help your team.

First, some key points:

1/ Use what YOU teach your team with this drill.

• If you teach them to cut a certain way on a drive, it should be expected they do the same here.
• If you teach they should react a certain way on a post touch, they should be doing it in the drill.

2/ ALTER THE DRILL HOWEVER IT BEST FITS YOUR OFFENSE AND PLAYERS

• This is common sense…do what works for you, your team, your personnel, your game plan, your available staff

3/ This is also a defensive drill.

• Teach about rotations, stunting, guarding actions, flying around, x-outs, whatever it is you teach.
• Your team WILL be in disadvantage situations in games! Teach them how to handle them.

Here are a few variations to the drill:

Original Version

• No driving or cutting allowed; make the ball pop and get an open shot
• Emphasize ball fakes, finding the open man

Slight Cut Version

• Players can cut…but they can’t cross the 3 point line

“One More”

• The score doesn’t count unless it’s after a “one more” pass
• What’s a “one more” pass? The ball is kicked out and instead of taking a shot, the player throws it “one more” to the open player for a shot

Drive It

• Instead of allowing no dribbling, allow north/south drives only…a dribble east/west results in a turnover.
• You could make an “ONLY layups count” rule or “ONLY kick outs count” rule

3 Out, 1 In

• Put a player in the post
• Better yet, start the drill in the post with a pass from the coach and play live from there

Baseline Drive

• The drill begins with a forced baseline drive; play out of that
• You could either force the player to drive it baseline…or have the defender playing too high on him so he has a driving advantage

Circle the Wagons

• The three defenders go from free throw line, to block, to block in a triangle until the coach passes to an offensive player. Once the pass is completed, the drill is live.

Rip Opposite Only

• The only scores that count are ones that result from a “rip opposite”

Paint Scores Only

• The only points that count are paint scores — whether through a drive or post catch

Golden Basket

• The team can only get a point if a particular player scores.
• You can tell the defense who this player is…or elect not to do so

Start with an Action

• This could be a ball screen, screen away, flare screen, dribble handoff, etc.
• Choose an action you run a lot of…and start the drill there.

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