Basketball : Drills - Peer pressure (2)

Peer Pressure (2) Split Left and Split Right

Don't let these lines confuse you, we will clear it up quickly here.

Three groups involved in Peer Pressure (2) Split Left and Split Right: Dribbling Line, Passing Line, and the Coach.

The team is divided into two groups and placed evenly in the Passing Line and the Dribbling Line. The drill starts with the Passing Line man passing to the first man in the Dribbling Line. As soon as the dribbling line man catches the ball, he dribbles towards the passing line and comes to a jump stop near the front of their line. He reverse pivots and passes to the man that just passed to him, because, while he was dribbling towards the front of the Passing Line, the other man who originally passed to him ran towards the front of the Dribbling Line, came to a jump stop, reverse pivoted, and waited for the pass from the man in the dribbling line. Once that man catches the ball, he immediately throws the ball to the Coach and the two players in the drill "X" cut around the coach. The coach passes the ball to the player cutting around his left side for the left hand layup. Again, the coach does not bounce pass nor does the player need to bounce the ball going in for the layup. The other player should have his arms up in a rebound position should the player miss the layup he will quickly tip the ball in.

The players quickly jog out to the opposite sides and get in the back of the line.

Again, you must set a goal before beginning each Peer Pressure series. As a reminder, 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. As the coach, you decide what the criteria will be.

You will do both right and left hand layups to complete this series. The drill is setup here for right hand layups. After you complete your goal (10, 20 or 30 made layups in a row), switch the balls over to the other side and start with right hand layups. A new goal begins.