Basic Basketball Drills and Skills – Rebounding Drills

Here are two basic basketball drills and skills for rebounding. The first one is excellent to use with your youth teams to teach and reinforce rebounding.  The second one can be used with all ages.

Youth Rebounding Drill
I do a rebounding“  basketball drill where I put the kids in groups of 3.  I begin by throwing the basketball off the backboard and then the kids go for the rebound and attempt to score.  This continues until either one kid scores, a held ball occurs or the ball goes out of bounds.  After one of the stated scenarios occurs, I repeat throwing the ball off the backboard.  First person to score 3 baskets win.

This is a useful basketball drill because teaching rebounding and defense to 9 year olds isn’t easy; they all want to shoot the ball.  Incorporating shooting together with rebounding in a mini game serves the kids well; it teaches them rebounding and how to follow up on missed shots.

Rebounding Drill for All
4 players in the bucket(2 off/2 def). I shoot the ball with off hand from the foul line moving side to side.  5 shots and the players switch from offense to defense.  A point system–2 points for an offensive rebound and you get to shoot at the hoop within 2 seconds from wherever you get the ball. “  Defensive players must stand still and can raise their arms straight up.  A hoop counts for another point.  1 point for a defensive rebound.  A pass from me to an offensive player allows them to shoot from that spot for 2 points.

I try to keep the passes to 1 of 5 shots to keep the defensive players honest.