Partner Defensive & Passing Session

⏱ Total Time: 30 Minutes
📍 Location: Half-Court or Backyard
👥 Participants: Partner (with-partner)
🎒 Gear: 1 x basketball, 1 tennis ball, 1 ring, runners

Grab a teammate, sibling, or training partner. This 30-minute session focuses on moving active feet, delivering crisp passes, and executing classic team cuts.

The Routine

1. Warmup (5 mins): partner-chest-passes - Stepping into crisp chest passes, snapping thumbs downward, and communicating calls on every delivery.
2. Main Drill 1 (10 mins): 1v1-zig-zag-defense - Defensive player turns the ball handler along a 45-degree corridor from baseline to half-court while offensive player changes directions with crossovers.
3. Main Drill 2 (10 mins): give-and-go - Passer hits teammate at the wing and cuts hard down the key toward the ring for the return pass and layup.
4. Finisher (5 mins): tennis-ball-toss - Dribbling a basketball with one hand while tossing and catching a tennis ball with a partner 2 metres away.