This fun youth basketball drill is called “Draining Buckets” and is a fun competitive basketball game for beginners.
This helps with basketball shot technique. You can modify the game as you see fit for the level of athlete you are working with by adding different shot types. It is a really good basketball drill for primary school aged kids.
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DRAINING BUCKETS BASKETBALL GAME
BASKETBALL SKILL ACQUISITION
Offensive Skills:
- Shot Technique
- Dribbling
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Competitiveness
BASKETBALL DRILL PURPOSE
To help develop different types of basketball shots and improve basketball dribbling and even passing skills.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
- 4 ice cream containers or small buckets
- 1 basketball per team
- Tennis balls or similar objects to remove from starting bucket
- A half court playing area and a hoop.
HOW TO PLAY
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VARIATION:
It can also be played without a ball as a warm up, you can have participants do different body movement fundamentals. E.g. Hop, skip, defensive slide etc. around and to the spots.
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