Improve Your Passing With The Argentina Passing Drill
Passing is a challenging skill to teach. It involves so many variables - distance, footwork, vision, balance, etc.
Argentina passing is a fun drill that goes beyond traditional two-person passing drills. This drill comes from 12 Skill Development Practice Drills From Nick LoGalbo.
Players like it because it's a whole team drill. It involves a little chaos which makes players think instead of just mindlessly passing.
Coaches will like it because you get to work on communication, footwork, and conditioning in addition to passing.
Drill Purpose (All Ages)
This drill is meant to simulate high-speed, game-like situations to help players improve passing speed and accuracy. It's also a lot of fun for players because it's fast-paced!
Note: This drill is set up for 8 players. If you have more players, use more court space.
Instructions
- Each player has a partner:
- 1 - 2
- 3 - 4
- 5 - 6
- 7 - 8
- Players 1 and 2 will start with a ball.
- Player 1 and Player 2 will pass the ball to their right.
- After passing the ball, they sprint to exchange places with their partner.
- The drill should keep moving quickly, and all players will immediately pass the ball to the right, then switch with their partner. As both balls go around the court, players must sprint and beat the ball.


Points of Emphasis
Continually tell your players...
- Make accurate passes.
- You can mix up what type of passes you ask players to throw.
- Move as quickly as possible without sacrificing form and accuracy.
- When passing, step toward your receiver.
- Catch, pivot, and pass without traveling. You can require players to use different types of pivots.
- When catching, extend your hands and step toward the pass.
- As in shooting, the ball should have backspin on it. This is accomplished by following through on every pass.
Coaching Tips:
You can spice things up and add a bit of motivation by:
- Giving them a reward if they don't drop the ball after two minutes and get X number of passes completed.
- Or making them run if they drop the ball.
- Consider adding an additional basketball.
- Use a change call. When you call change, players must immediately start passing to their left instead of their right.
- Have players call out the name of the person they are passing to.
- Players should make physical contact with teammates (high 5) when passing them on the court.
Make Passing A Priority!
Too many coaches leave passing to chance. They don't emphasize it and then complain when their teams pass poorly. Use Argentina Passing to prevent that from happening to your team.
Consider replacing traditional sprints with this drill. Your players will still get their conditioning in while simultaneously improving at this crucial skill.
Kill two birds with one stone!
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