Practice - February 9th

Our basketball team had our weekly practice last night. We had 9 players (1 absent). We worked on right-handed layups. More than half of them still don't have the proper footwork and are not jumping off the correct foot. We worked on this for a long time, probably 10-15 minutes.

Then we worked on 1-on-1 dribbling and defense, with the defender trying to make the dribbler turn.

Finally we divided into 3 teams of 3 players each, and scrimmaged. At the start, the rule was, you could not dribble once you crossed half-court. That was too make the kids learn to pass.

Next we allowed dribbling, but only if someone set a pick for the dribbler. We actually had a few picks set during that phase of the game.