Driveway Shooting

Basketball Manitoba has a series of Driveway Drills for kids on YouTube. While it helps to have a double driveway, you can get in a good workout by shooting from out top on a single driveway, covering the types of shots listed in Off-Season Workouts based on age and skill level.

For older players, here are some good driveway (or gym) options using (or adapted to) restricted space, starting from out top or going elbow to elbow.

The drills cover catch and shoot (spot-up, transition, square-up) and shots off the dribble, including one-dribble and two-dribble pull-ups, stop separation, regular stepbacks, drag pullbacks, other stepbacks (misdirection, extended, touch, crossover), side steps, floaters, hesi pulls (lift, skip), and ballscreens. Split catch, drop, hip switch and body jab & shimmy moves are used.

Combine with some stationary ballhandling and finishing drills to cover a wide range of basic and advanced skills. The playlist is Driveway shooting.

• 100-Shot Challenge (1:43)
  • Pull-ups right, left (10 each)
  • Stepbacks right, left
  • Speed-stop exchanges right, left
  • Hesi pulls right, left (turn dribble, glide)
  • 20 threes
    • 4-minute drill (shoot 3s)
  • See Rick Carlisle (step-in 3s, pull-ups, side-step 3s, floaters)
• 4th-quarter workout
  • Transition catches - layups, elbow shots, one-dribble pull-ups, 3s
• Square-up
  • Big-step shooting (2:44)
    • elbow to elbow, outside step then 1-2 pivot to square up (progression - game speed)
    • see Elite shooting (catch on the outside foot; 2:07)
  • Sprint-through shooting
    • elbow to elbow from out top, footwork is outside-inside-outside
  • Agility elbow shooting (3:19)
    • block to elbow square-ups, both sides
    • see 5star box shooting
• Two-dribble pull-ups (5:11)
  • Elbow to elbow (and elbow-baseline)
  • Improve shooting off the dribble (4:31)
    • shoot down, across and up the lane
  • Lateral pull-ups (four steps)
    • two dribbles
    • one dribble
• 10 moves to shoot off the dribble (9:24)
  • Inside foot, outside foot, hop shot, step back, side step, punch dribble, pullback (cross, under, behind), misdirection, hesi pull (lift), escape dribble (extended stepback)
  • See Angled pull-up
  • James Harden under drag breakdown (1:33)
    • one-dribble under drag, foot replacement, shoot
    • move back, push cross to under drag
    • Under drag progression (includes touch stepback)
  • 3 advanced moves for guards (4:35)
    • drop crossover, misdirection stepback
    • under drag, touch stepback
  • Kemba Walker stepbacks (4:11)
    • big (Iverson) crossover with cross-step, stepback
    • run with the ball (two more steps), take a dribble on the stepback
    • Skip crossover series (3:55)
      • skip crossover (Iverson), shoot
      • skip crossover, stepback
    • see Snake pull-ups
  • See Blog posts - Stepbacks, Lateral Separation
• Multi-stop challenge
  • Speed stop, speed-stop exchange, inverted drag, punch drag
  • See Stop separation series
  • Speed-stop exchange progressions
    • Speed stop exchange part 3 (2:31)
      • elongated stepback
    • Speed stop exchange touch stepback (2:54)
    • Spin seal ballscreen series (3:40)
      • step thru, spin seal reverse dribble
  • See Blog post - Stop Separation
• Courtney Douglass
  • Split catch (layup, floater, one-dribble pull-up)
  • Drop pulls (skip hesi)
  • Lift options (between the legs lift hesi pull)
  • See links for progressions, e.g. hip switch, drop and cross, turn-out lift hesi
  • See Blog posts - Split (Drop) Stance, Freeze Pull-ups
• Body jab workout
  • Split catch, body jab to the back foot, one-dribble pull
  • Double body jab (shimmy front-back), pull
  • See Blog post - Body Jab and Shimmy Moves
• Split catch progression (6:06)
  • Split catch floater, one-dribble pull-up, body jab pull, body jab shoot, shimmy pull
  • Options off the split catch (0:28)
    • one-dribble pull, body jab, jab pull, shimmy, inverted drag, shimmy with inside-hand release (throw-down)
• Sackmann ballscreens - Middle screen
  • §peed-stop exchange, bounce out, drop
  • Floaters, snake, fake the snake
  • See Middle pick and roll drill (3:36)
• Three-cone drills (3:39)
• Hop pull-ups off the inside foot
  • horns set
  • middle ballscreen
  • 1-3-5-7 changes of direction at the first two cones, hop pulls and stepback 3s.

See Shooting - Guard workout, Altizer challenge.