— TRAINING SESSION

Motion Offence Day (U14)

Block and Bank · 62 minutes · 7 drills · Generated 13 May 2026

Age group: U14
Focus: Team play
Duration: 62 minutes
Drills: 7

Build motion offence habits: cut, replace, screen, read. Skills any system needs, regardless of what plays you run.

7DRILLS

62MINUTES

9AVG / DRILL

1 Passing Lines Warm-Up

5 min Difficulty: Beginner Age: u8 Court: Half

Pairs, 5 metres apart. 20 chest passes, 20 bounce passes, 20 overhead passes, 20 one-handed push passes (10 each hand).

Fundamentals warm-up every coach should run every practice. Countless turnovers prevented.

Coaching points

Step into every pass.
Fingertips on follow-through.
Receive with both hands, fingers spread.
Bounce passes: 2/3 of the way to your partner.
Overhead passes: snap wrists, from the forehead.

2 Give and Go

8 min Difficulty: Beginner Age: u10 Court: Half

Ball-handler passes to a teammate, immediately cuts hard to the rim. Receiver returns the ball with a bounce pass for an open layup.

The oldest play in basketball. Still works because defenders constantly forget about the passer.

Coaching points

Pass with intent, sharp, two-handed.
First step HARD toward the rim.
Receiver sees the cut, bounce pass low.
Finisher: catch on the move, finish strong.
If cut isn't open, return and reset.

3 Backdoor Cut

8 min Difficulty: Intermediate Age: u14 Court: Half

Wing player is overplayed by an aggressive defender. Instead of fighting for the pass, sharp backdoor cut to the rim. Passer reads, delivers a bounce pass for the layup.

The punishment for over-aggressive denial. Every team needs to know this.

Coaching points

Wing reads the defender's hand in the passing lane.
First step HARD toward the ball, then SHARP cut behind.
Passer sees the cut, bounce pass low and away.
Finisher: catch on the move, finish strong.
If defence adjusts, RETURN to the wing.

4 UCLA Cut

10 min Difficulty: Intermediate Age: u14 Court: Half

Wing passes to the high post (elbow), then cuts off the high post player toward the rim. Classic off-ball action — used in the UCLA offence and copied across every level since the 1960s.

A simple, beautiful way to teach reading screens.

Coaching points

• Pass with intent — sharp two-handed chest pass
• Read the defender's position before cutting
• Brush shoulder-to-shoulder past the screener
• Sprint after the cut — don't drift
• High-post player turns to face — looks for the cut, then resets

5 Pass Cut Replace

12 min Difficulty: Intermediate Age: u14 Court: Half

Five-out motion. Pass to a teammate, immediately cut to the basket. Teammate fills your spot. Continuous. No dribbles, no screens, pure motion.

Foundation of every motion offence. Reads, spacing, the habit of cutting hard.

Coaching points

Cut HARD off every pass.
Replace, when someone cuts, someone fills.
4 metres minimum between players.
Look for the cutter, first read on every catch.
If nothing's there, pass and cut again.

6 Flex Continuity

15 min Difficulty: Advanced Age: u16 Court: Half

Five-out spacing. Pattern: pass to wing, baseline cutter to opposite block, screener sets down-screen, screener pops to top, original ball-handler cuts off down-screen.

Classic flex offence. Used at every level from middle school to college. Selflessness and reading screens.

Coaching points

Cut HARD off every screen.
Screener holds 1 second before releasing.
Keep spacing, 4 metres minimum.
No standing, every player doing something.
If you're open, shoot. If not, continue.

7 Cool Down Routine

4 min Difficulty: Beginner Age: u8 Court: Half

End-of-practice: 30 seconds each, toe touches, quad stretch, hamstring stretch, calf stretch, lunge stretch, cobra back stretch, shoulder rolls. Total 4 minutes.

Most coaches skip it. Don't. Recovery starts here. Players who stretch consistently miss less practice from soreness.

Coaching points

Slow movements, no bouncing.
Breathe, exhale on stretch.
Don't push through pain, just to the edge.
Hold each stretch.
Debrief while stretching: what worked today?