Step 1/3Your own patch — dribble hard and creatively

Orange = offense · blue = defense · solid line = cut · dashed = pass · zig-zag = dribble · T = screen · dotted arc = shot

Ball Handling drill

Kill the Grass (Freestyle Dribbling)

Each player owns a small patch of floor and dribbles as hard and as creatively as they can to “kill the grass” — no set pattern.

Equipment: 1 ball each

How to run the drill

1Every player finds a space about two metres across — their patch of grass. No basket needed.
2For 30–45 seconds, dribble as hard, fast and creatively as you can inside your patch: any moves, any combinations.
3Keep your feet moving too — square, staggered, wide, low — so the dribble and the footwork work together.
4Rest 20 seconds and go again. Mistakes are the point: if you never lose the ball, go harder.

Ball handler zig-zags the length of the floor against a defender who shuffles and turns them.

A defender can retreat from the three-point line but cannot step above it. The attacker reads the gap and chooses a shot or drive.

The dribbler starts a few steps ahead and races the length of the court for a layup while the defender sprints to cut them off.

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