Basketball : Drills - Peer pressure (1)

Peer Pressure (1) Speed Layups

Three groups here: Passing Line, Receiving Line, and the Sprint Line (or layup line).

The Passing Line only will have two people at all times. The rest of the team should be divided equally between the Receiving Line and the Sprint Line.

You must set a goal before beginning each Peer Pressure series. The goal is for amount made in a row before moving on to the other hand. You can also put the score back to zero for bad passes, poor effort, not calling players name out on pass, etc. You decide what the criteria will be.

You will do both right and left hand layups to complete this Speed Layup series. The drill is setup here for right hand layups. After you complete your goal (10, 20 or 30 made layups in a row), move the passing line over to the right side underneath the basket and switch your Sprint Line and Receiving Line for the left hand layups. The goal should be set again for the left side (10, 20 or 30 in a row).

The drill starts with the first person in the receiving line running out to receive the pass from the passing line man about FT line extended or a bit higher. The first person in the Sprint Line waits until the pass is in the air to the man in the Receiving Line and then is running hard to the basket looking for the pass from the Receiving Line man. The Receiving Line player catches the pass on a jump stop, reverse pivots, and throws a direct pass to the cutting man from the Sprinting Line. Do not bounce pass anything here. The ball does not touch the floor in any of these drills.

The rotations are pretty easy:

Receiving Line follows his pass and rebounds the layup and throws it to the second person in line in the Passing Line. He then jogs to the outside of the floor and to the end of the Sprint Line.

The Sprint Line receives the pass and shoots the layup without dribbling. After he shoots he goes behind the last person in the Passing Line and waits for the Receiving Line man to pass him the ball.

The Passing Line passes the ball to the man cutting at him from the Receiving Line. Once he passes the ball he jogs to the outside of the floor to the end of the Receiving Line.