Backyard Spacing & Cutting Routine

⏱ Total Time: 30 Minutes
📍 Location: Backyard
👥 Participants: Solo / Partner
🎒 Gear: 1 basketball, cones, 1 ring

This 30-minute backyard workout focuses on off-ball movement, spatial awareness, and reading defensive overplay. Junior players learn foundational cutting mechanics and relocation habits that translate directly into junior spacing concepts.

The Routine

1. Warmup (6 mins): v-cut-getting-open - focus on crisp directional changes
2. Main Drill 1 (12 mins): give-and-go - cut hard to the ring after passing
3. Main Drill 2 (9 mins): backdoor-cut-drill - execute backdoor cut when defender overplays
4. Finisher (3 mins): pass-and-relocate-drill - pass and slide to open window