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A shootaround is an informal pre-game practice session common among professional and collegiate basketball teams around the world. Shootarounds do not involve all of the formal elements of a regular practice. They usually do not involve conditioning drills, run-throughs of plays and extensive chalk-talks by coaches like normal practice sessions ...
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...
The 5 man weave is a basketball drill introduced at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, KY in 1991. Assistant coach Ed Yuhas introduced the drill as a pre-season conditioning drill. The initial drill consisted of 5 players spaced evenly along the baseline, with the middle player holding the ball.
“Gonna warm up Wheeler,” he said to Braden. The preposterous thought of a middle-aged man wearing a suit warming up the varsity goalie had his middle son howling, and the phrase, like the ...
The Mikan Drill is a basketball drill commonly credited to George Mikan and his college coach at DePaul University Ray Meyer. It is designed to help basketball centers and forwards develop rhythm, timing for rebounding, and scoring in the paint. It is also used for outside players to better their layup skills and increase stamina, for longer games.
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When the elder Bennett first developed the system, he actually taped a "pack line" to Green Bay's practice court as a teaching tool, and when he moved to Wisconsin had a similar line painted on the team's practice court. The system has become increasingly popular in 21st-century college basketball.
A tip drill is a basketball exercise in which players take turns to tip the ball off the backboard consecutively without the ball touching the ground. [1] After each rebound the player goes to the back of the queue leaving the next player to repeat the drill. [2] The aim of the drill is to develop timing and jumping ability for rebounding. [3]