Zig Zag full court drill



Offense starts with the ball on the baseline and defender starts in defensive stance.  Offensive player moves up the floor with the dribble and stays on 1/3 of the floor’s width.

Key Point:  Offensive player is not trying to beat the defender up the floor.  The drill is a series of sprints up the floor.  Each time the offense is quickly dribbling to the next side of the floor and then waits for the defense to catch up if the defense is behind.  The drill is to make sure that the defender works at staying low.  When the players get moving too quickly up the floor the defense has a tendency to bring their feet together and shuffle up the floor.

The offense tries to sprint.  Defender must concentrate on doing the drill with hands active, legs spread and head below offensive player’s shoulder.  Offense must work on ball handling skills and go at a pace that makes the defender work at a quick pace.


Zig-Zag full court drill with live play at other end

  



Same emphasis as regular Zig Zag drill.  Must maintain intensity and stance position.  Once the offensive player reaches the opposite baseline he will then throw the ball out to the Coach above the top of the key.  Offensive player sprints to catch the ball on the wing.  Defender maintains position keeping the ball in front.  Defenders that can work full court Zig-Zag and then come out and defend the ball on the wing can probably guard most players they will come across during the season.  Great toughness and conditioning drill.

Zig-Zag with downscreen

  



Zig-Zag to opposite baseline.  Once offense reaches baseline he will throw the ball out to the Coach above the three-point line.  Extra offensive player enters the play to set a screen to get teammate open.  Coach can instruct screener to set a variety of screens (downscreen, flare, or screener can start on baseline and set back screen).


Zig-Zag to half court and pass to coach; play live

  

This drill only takes the Zig-Zag part of the drill until the ball reaches half-court.  Once ball gets to half court offensive player passes the ball to the Coach.  If the offensive player can beat his man to the basket he will try to get a return pass and score the lay-up.  If defense gets back quickly to the lane, the offensive man must touch the low block and sprint out to receive the pass.  After receiving the pass the offense tries to score.  A variation in this drill is that the offense is trying to get open as soon as possible and as close to the goal as possible.  In the full court Zig-Zag drill the offense is allowing the defense to get set up.  This drill is geared toward making the defense work on guarding the ball to half-court and then quickly being ready to guard an offensive player’s movement away from the ball as they prepare to receive the ball back from the Coach.


Zig-Zag to half court then have live action 
 
Zig-Zag drill until half-court.  Offense is not trying to beat the defender in the backcourt.  Once ball
gets to the half court line it is live action.  The offense is trying to get into the lane for a shot.  They
must try to get as close to the basket as possible.  They want to get a body in front of the defense or at least even with the defense to gain an advantage as they get close to the basket.

Full Court One on One 
 
Defender hands the ball to the Offensive player to start the drill.  Offense has no limitations.  Allow the defender to play aggressively and be a little more physical in the backcourt.  Defender must learn how close to the offensive player he can get.  A defender that makes too much contact will not be able to contain the offensive player.  This is a great drill to teach your players how closely can they guard the ball in the backcourt.  If you are a pressing team each player must be able to guard the ball if your press is going to be effective when setting traps.