One of the ways that we stress a particular skill in drill work is by using a ball rack. We will place X amount of balls on the rack. When a specific skill is executed properly, we take a ball off of the rack. For example, we do a daily drill called 3 on 4 Rotate and Communicate. The basic set-up of the drills is there are 4 offensive players, and 3 defensive players. Our defensive rules are:
1. Have to have a defender on the ball applying ball pressure
2. Have to have 1 defender in the high hole (high post)
3. Have to have 1 defender in the low hole (rim)
The offense works the ball around the perimeter working on triple threat, ball rips and passing. When a defender is on the ball, X1 for example, and the ball gets passed to another perimeter player, X1 CANNOT guard the next pass. The next pass needs to be covered by either the low hole or high hole defender. This forces the players to communicate and rotate.
When players do not communicate, have a poor closeout, do not apply good ball pressure or do not fill the high and low hole, we will take off a ball from the rack. When the rack has no more balls, we do some form of conditioning. It has been something that has worked great for our team in terms of focus and effort.
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