Finishing Over Helpside Defense
Improve Your Finishing Over Weakside Help
This 1-on-1 drill develops your offensive players' ability to finish against help-side rotation. By allowing for a lot of reps in a short amount of time, your players can focus on improving their moves rather than dwelling on mistakes.
Your players are also forced to improve their finishing as they do not have the option to pass the ball.
It also improves your players' first step speed, acceleration, and their ability to change directions quickly.
Set up one cone on the wing and another cone on the opposite side short corner. Begin with two lines. One line for offense and one line for defense.
The defender will sprint around the short corner cone and the offensive player will dribble around the cone on the wing. The defender is trying to cut the offensive player off in the lane. When the offensive player dribbles around the cone, they will make a straight line cut to finish at the basket.
Defense switches to offense and offense to defense after every rep.
Variations:
Change Location of Cones - You can change the location of the cones. Setting up a cone at the top of the key will change the position from which the offensive player will attack.
Choose Specific Finishing Move - You can also add variations by telling the players to finish with a specific move (Euro step, runner, double-clutch, etc.).
Emphasis Points:
Finish Through The Defense – By having a mentality of finishing through the defense, you will make more shots and draw more fouls. This mentality will also reduce indecision and develop a more aggressive player.
Beat Your Opponent To The Goal – If you can beat the defense to the cone then explode to the goal, it will make the defense scramble to recover to defend the basket. If the defense is in a bad recovery position, they are less likely to make a good defensive play. It also helps develop explosiveness with the ball and the ability to finish while playing at faster speeds.
Minimize Dribbles – Your goal is to minimize your dribbles and extend to the basket as quickly as possible. The fewer dribbles that you use, the quicker you can get to the basket.
Coaching Tips:
Encourage Experimentation and Failure/ Avoid Overcoaching – Allow kids to learn what works and what doesn’t work. Through repetition, most players figure things out. They also might come up with an unorthodox move that you don’t teach that is effective.
Also, if you stop play too much, the players won’t get the needed reps to improve.
Give Individuals That Struggle Some Possible Solutions - If you see a kid constantly struggling, give them some possible finishing moves to work on.
For example, if a player is having trouble finishing when they get close to the basket, have them work on jumping further from the basket and put more arc on the basketball. Maybe you teach them how to change direction to keep the defense off balance.
If a player is constantly out of control and running over the defense, maybe you teach them a jump stop to get them under control.
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