Professional Documents
Culture Documents
I. Practice Essentials
o St. Anthony's practice mostly in the fullcourt since they are an up and down team
o Treat every game the same (Kids notice when something is different)
o Focus on your opponent 2nd
o Everything else you practice is worthless if you can't take advantage of opportunities
o Hurley has 1 special situation practice per 2 weeks (1 1/2 hours goes over 20 different
situations)
o Before: focus on things you want done in the game but leave time for legs to recover for game
o After: If team has bad game, don't take it out on your team (they didn't intentionally lose.)
Teach instead
o Starts positive
o Ends positive (reminders for what's coming up and tomorrow's focus)
3 players pass back and forth (there) Breakout 1 pass for layup; opp. Wing covers backboard
Chase the Point Guard
o PG has 4 dribbles to take length of the court
o 2 players on defense chase the point guard once the first dribble hits the floor
o When defense comes back for 2 on 1: Inbounder baseball passes to wing
Chase the Point Guard- Drill B
o PG has a teammate; pass back and forth
o 3 defenders chasing
o Coming back: 3 on 2- outlet pass
III. Shooting
4 ball shooting
o Baby hook
o Smart shot
o Curl @ Elbow
o Curl @ ElbowRip back to middle
o 3 point shot; big men shot fakejumper
Follow the leader (Partner shooting)
o Group of 2; possibly 3---1 ball
Lead shooter
Follower
Superman drill
o Throw ball on opp. Side of the glass and go get it, landing outside the paint
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Tip Drill
o Throw off glass and tip it in (finish everything)
Throw off glass, rip to chin, and score
Rip, fake, and power up
Rip, fake, and reverse layup
V. Ballhandling
o “Coach Bob Hurley uses the Human Cone Drill as a competitive way to work on
ballhandling and attacking the rim. This drill can also be called "Guards vs Bigs." The first
guard will dribble around the human cones (the next guards waiting in line to dribble) as
they are trying to deflect the ball. Once the guard gets around all cones, he attacks the
rim being guarded by the post man who makes it as difficult as possible to score without
fouling. If the post stops him from scoring the post players get one point, if guard scores
the guard gets one point. And you keep alternating guards and posts until you reach a
set score. Note: Guards will always be scorers and posts will always be stoppers in this
drill for Coach Hurley.” –From http://triplethreatbball.blogspot.com