Escape Drill to Improve Ball Handling
Another great ball handling drill is call the escape drill and can be done on any half court or an even smaller area and you’ll understand this more as i explain the drill to you.
The escape drill involves 3 players with one player dribbling the ball and two people playing defense. The player with the ball starts at the baseline with the 2 defenders at the foul line. The player begins dribbling in an attempt to make it to half court without losing control of the ball or having it get stolen or tipped away. Defenders are not allowed to foul but are allowed to be as obnoxious as legally possible. The idea is to try to rattle the ball handler to force a turnover. If the ball handler is any good he’ll be able to complete this drill relatively easily because typically the defense doens’t have a solid enough plan. However, when it becomes too common for the offense to break the pressure simply add a 3rd defender to make it more difficult.
The key to the drill is moving quickly while keeping the dribble low. If the ball hander is slow in his moves it will be too easy for the defense to force a mistake.
