Here is the beauty of the Attack and Counter Skill Development System, you can teach it in almost any situation.

If you have players that can't share the ball and must be socially-distant, this will work for you.

If you have to do small groups, this will work for you.

Socially-Distant and Can NOT Share Ball

If you must maintain distance between players and you can't share a basketball, here are a couple of ways that players can practice.

This also provides great conditioning! If you have two to three players at each basket, it provides a great work-to-rest ratio as you rotate them into the drill.

Spin Outs

You simply spin the ball out away from you with backspin. Then you sprint to the ball and grab it, turn and face the basket, then shoot.

• Work on pivot and footwork combinations
  
  You can work on a variety of pivot and footwork combinations including a front pivot, back pivot, drop step, step through, sweep, or hop.
  
  
• Practice straight cuts and curl cuts
  
  You can also do a variety of straight cuts and curl cuts. You can do corner to wing cuts, wing to top cuts, post to perimeter cuts, perimeter to post cuts, high post to low post cuts, low post to high post cuts, fast break cuts from half court, and so on.
  
  

Chair And a Ball

This is quite simple. You simply place the ball on the chair. Then you practice your game-like cut, grab the ball, execute your footwork, then shoot it.

• Utilize more complex cuts
  
  Chairs are great for when you need to practice more complex cuts like V-cuts, L-cuts, shallow cuts, fade cuts, face cuts, curl cuts, etc. It's harder to utilize spin outs when practicing these cuts.

Small Groups - Can Share Basketball

If you have to workout in small groups at each basket and you can share a basketball, here are a couple of ways to set up your drills.

Chair With a Rebounder (Also Great For At-Home Workouts)

You can use two basketballs and get a lot more reps in.

• Great for at-home workouts
  
  On a side note, this is a great way for players to work on their game at home. They can simply have a family member or friend place the ball on the chairs.
  
  
• Chairs never throw bad passes
  
  As Don Kelbick says, "Chairs never throw bad passes."
  
  When trying to master your footwork, scoring moves, and shooting, you can progress more quickly when you don't have to deal with bad passes.
  
  Due to that, you should at least consider starting with chairs before progressing to passers.

Passer

Here is another way you can rotate and work on drills with a passer.

Organization and Skill Development Tips for COVID:

• Pick one side of the court
  
  To maintain distance, you can have one player practice the repetitions on one side of the court.
  
  So you could have all of your players do the reps on the right side of the court.
  
  This allows you to use all of the baskets on the court, especially if they are squeezed closely together like when you have 6 baskets on an elementary school court.
  
  
• After 60 seconds, blow the whistle to change players.
  
  This will give them a nice work-to-rest ratio for getting in better basketball condition. If you only have two players per basket, you will notice that they will get quite fatigued.
  
  It's an efficient way to practice your skills and condition yourself at the same time.
  
  
• Change distance or location
  
  To incorporate variable practice, you can always set up two or more chairs at different distances or locations on the same side of the floor.
  
  
• Change cut or pivot
  
  With the multiple chairs, you can change the cut prior to getting the ball or the pivot.
  
  You can even have a player call out the pivot or cut prior each repetition to mix things up... Front pivot, back pivot, drop step, etc.
  
  
• Mix up amount of dribbles
  
  Tell players to mix up the number of dribbles after each repetition.
  
  One time you might take a shot immediately after receiving the ball with no dribbles.
  
  Next, you might take one dribble and shoot a jump shot or lay up.
  
  The following time, you might take two dribbles and shoot a jump shot or lay up.
  
  
• Make it competitive!
  
  Also, in small groups you might add a competitive element by tracking total shots made in 60 seconds by each player, total makes by each group, etc.

We hope these tips help you. Please share any ideas or tips that you might have as well!

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