Drilling the Vocab

A strong foundation in the basics is essential for young basketball players. The following beginner basketball drills teach both movement and vocabulary, so athletes can better respond to coaches' plays during games.

Instant Response

In the Instant Response drill, players pair up and space out on the court. The coach yells a basketball move, and the player with the ball must execute the move within 3 seconds. If the player takes more than 3 seconds to recognize the move and do it, they lose the ball to their partner.
The partner then starts following the coach's directives, until they too take longer than 3 seconds. This can go back and forth between partners for as long as the coach likes. The coach can make the moves increasingly more difficult, or reduce the time the players have to execute the move in order to make the drill continually more difficult.

Coaches can use moves such as:
• Bounce pass
• Chest pass
• Pick and roll
• Dribble
• Defensive stance

Vocab Add-On

This drill is a test of memory, vocab, and basketball skills, and kids love how silly it makes them look. Players stand in a line at one end of the court. Each player has a ball.
The first player yells out a basketball move and then does it. He then joins the end of the line. The second player yells the first player's move, then adds a move of their own, and then executes both moves, before joining the end of the line. This continues, with each player yelling out the name of all the moves in front of him before adding his own and executing all the moves.
Towards the end of the line of players, things get goofier and goofier. It becomes more difficult to remember the moves in the correct order. Players can help each other along by shouting out the correct moves.
For very young players, or in the interest of time, this drill can be split on both sides of the court. This keeps the sequence of moves shorter, and helps younger players focus and remember better. If coaches do choose to split their team in half, it can become a competition to see which half of the team finishes the entire drill first.
A variation of the competition is to see which half of the team can complete the drill without forgetting any of the sequence or without matching the wrong move to the wrong name.

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