Basketball Conditioning Practice – Scrimmage First and Last

Scott, one of my subscribers, sent in his favorite basketball conditioning practice plans that he uses with his team. I’ve included it here for you to try with your team.  Keep ’em coming!

From Scott…
We start each basketball practice just like a game.

After stretching, we run our pre-game warm-up basketball drills–star drill, lay-ups, 3 on 2 and then right into a team scrimmage. Conditioning the players to take the warm-up serious and get ready to go full court, just like prior to a game. Plus, once the players are a little winded they seem to concentrate just a little better on the other aspects of basketball practice.

Our players love to scrimmage. That’s one reason we start with it and they know if they pay attention and we “get done what we need to get done” I will save time for them to scrimmage to finish the practice. And, if they don’t go hard in the final scrimmage, work on conditioning…then we will have a more traditional form of conditioning to complete the practice.