Of all the dribbling drills I advocate, this one is far and beyond the best.
You can immediately see the dribbling strengths and weakness of each player.
Basically it’s a dribble suicide.
The following information was written by Ed Riley and posted by Steve Jordan on his website:
http://www.akcoach.com/index.htm
This is what Coach Riley writes:
There are several different types of suicides. This is a simple one.
A. player runs from baseline to closest free throw line and back
B. then player runs from baseline to half court and back
c. then player runs from baseline to furthest free throw line and back
d. then player runs from baseline to opposite baseline and back
Try running this yourself at full speed, and you’ll understand why it’s called a SUICIDE. Now the drill is to see who is fast, who is able to start and stop, and who has endurance. Have them all run a suicide, but they must slap the floor when they reach a free throw line, half court line, or a baseline. At the end, rate your players.
This is how the traditional suicide is run, but look what happens if you add dribbling.
Have them compete in groups, so you can pay more attention to each player. They do a suicide while dribbling a basketball. They still have to slap the floor at the given intervals. This will start to let you see who your ball handlers are.
A very simple drill where you can the dribbling skill level of your players.
Do this and you will have saved yourself a lot of time.
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