Fundamentals

Canada Basketball Technical Manual

The complete 2012 Technical Manual (268 pages) has been split into sections and sub-sections. See below for drills from the Manual (also see Renato Pasquali drills).

• Cover, introduction
  • LTAD
• Fundamental teaching
• Daily practice plan
• Preparing to play (physical exercises)
  • Fundamental movement skills
• Basketball Skills
  • Stance, pivoting, starts, stops
  • Layups
  • Shooting
  • Passing
  • Dribbling
  • 1 on 1, combination drills
• Defensive rules (summary, see below)
• Teaching conceptual offence
• Offensive concepts
  • Attacking the basket
  • Space
  • Penetration
  • Pass, cut, replace
  • Combination drills
  • Rebounding
  • Running a conceptual offence
  • Sealing and posting
  • Screening, dribble hand-offs
    • Ballscreen solutions, teaching
  • Isolations, other points
• Strategies - Early clock (transition)
• Teaching conceptual offence (stage 2)
• Offensive system
• Press break
• Zone attack
• Special situations (e.g. inbounds)
• Defensive rules
  • Defensive topics
  • Defensive exercises
• Transition defence
• Pressure defence
• Zone defence
• Glossary

For drills from the Technical Manual, see

Attack/defend - 2 on 2 Ontario
Attack/defend - Pick and drive
Conditioning - Dual zig-zag
Defending - Weakside cuts
Fast break - 3-line 3-shots
Fast break - Running outside
Footwork - Dribble starts
Layups - Cross the lane
Layups - Fullcourt passing
Scrimmage - Nash zone gap
Shooting - 3-line drive and kick
Shooting - Blasone
Shooting - Flare-wing
Shooting - Jenkins pick and roll
Shooting - Sidescreens