BALL HANDLING DRILLS IN BASKETBALL

1. Always dribbles with your fingertips and not the palm of your hand.

• NO

• YES

2. Wrap the ball around your head, waist and around your knees.

• BALL SLAPS

• FINGER TIPS

• BALL WRAPS ONE LEG

• BALL CIRCLES

3. Wrap the ball around your legs in front in between your legs first then wrapping behind one knee. Then bring back in front in between legs behind other knee.

• FIGURE OF 8

• FRONT TO BACK TOSS

• ONE LEG DRIBBLE

• SPIDER DRIBBLE

4. Slap the ball as hard as you can w/ one hand as the other holds the balls.

• ONE LEG DRIBBLE

• FIGURE OF 8 DRIBBLE

• BALL SLAPS

• SPIDER DRIBBLE

5. One dribble with each hand in front, and one dribble with each hand behind his legs, continuing at a rapid speed.

• ONE LEG DRIBBLE

• FIGURE OF 8 DRIBBLE

• BALL CIRCLES

• SPIDER DRIBBLE

6. Same as figure of 8, but now we are dribbling the ball instead of wrapping it using two hands.

• FIGURE OF 8 DRIBBLE

• ONE LEG DRIBBLE

• SPIDER DRIBBLE

• BALL SLAPS

7. Extend the arms out and push the ball back and forth with your fingertips.

• BALL CIRCLES

• BALL SLAPS

• FINGER TIPS

• BALL WRAP ONE LEG

8. Dribble the ball with the right hand making circles around your right leg, alternate doing the same with the left hand and leg.

• SPIDER DRIBBLE

• ONE LEG DRIBBLE

• FIGURE OF 8 DRIBBLE

• NONE OF THE ABOVE

9. In a straddle position hold the ball in front of their legs, flip their hands behind and catch it before it hits the ground.

• FRONT TO BACK TOSS

• BALL CIRCLES

• BALL SLAPS

• FINGER TIPS

10. In a lunge position wrap the ball around your legs.

• BALL CIRCLES

• BALL WRAP ONE LEG

• BALL SLAPS

• FINGER TIPS