As a basketball coach, your players will take on your values. If you do not value passing in your practices, they will not value passing in their games. Here are six tips to improve your team's passing and reduce turnovers in the process: 1. Drills to Build Speed and Strength Using two-ball passing...

These videos will help players improve their passing skills:  

Using only the amount of force necessary to get the ball to its target is called touch. Sometimes you need to pass with considerable force, for example, when you are passing the length of the court. Often much less force is required, particularly when the distance between passer and receiver is, at...

This is the Steve Nash 1-hand passing series drill demonstrated by Bob Bigelow. This is great for ball handling, hand-eye coordination, catching, ambidexterity, and passing. You can also use a wall if you are by yourself. Variations Catch - Dribble - Pass. Catch - Crossover dribble - Pass. Catch -...

Passing with one hand is not fundamental. Those who say this call themselves basketball purists. Many of them claim that basketball was at its best 20 or 30 years ago and the fundamentals of the game has long slipped away. Although I can't argue with all of it, we have to be careful not to limit...

Basketball passing has to be made under pressure, when the lanes are barely open and long-armed defenders are trying their hardest to get a piece of the basketball. Ganon Baker Basketball offers these practice drills that will work on your passing in a number of high-pressure situations, so you...

Developing young players' passing abilities is one of the keys to successful basketball coaching. The basis of any basketball team's offense is their aptitude for passing the ball between each other effectively to create the shooting opportunities. If players cannot pass then they will make it easy...

In today's dribble drive world, players can often undervalue the effectiveness of the pass. If you are having problems with dribbling the ball too much, breaking pressure, or just need to improve overall team passing, here are two great drills that are sure to help! 3-on-3, No Dribble This is...

Basketball is a team game. By definition, that means all players are involved with the process of playing the game and should function as one. One of the primary skills created to accomplish this is passing. Yet, passing remains one of the most under-taught, under-emphasized, and under-drilled...

Keys to Effectiveness: Throwing both the chest pass and the bounce pass are underrated elements of a player’s ability to be a fundamentally sound player. This drill will help you develop these skills; it is also an excellent way to warm-up during an individual workout. How to Do the Drill: Stand...