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BASKETBALL DRIBBLING - PERIPHERAL VISION 

Quickly Become A Better Dribbler While Developing Your Court Vision  

On this page are peripheral vision basketball dribbling drills.  Include these basketball dribbling tips as soon as possible in your youth basketball drills.

Below are pet dribbling peeves from a basketball coaching point of view.  Simply avoiding these will assist anyone questioning how to become a better basketball player. 

• Dribbling too much in a half court offense takes the rest of your team out of the basketball game. Your team becomes easier to defend because the offense is moving so slowly.
• Basketball players dribbling the basketball too high allow the basketball to easily be swatted away.
• Basketball players in the paint should be catching and, before the defense has time to react, shooting the basketball. Instead too many players in the paint are catching, then dribbling, then shooting the basketball.  This allows the defense time to catch-up to the play and contest the shot.

Basketball dribbling is a huge part of the basketball game and all basketball players should be able to dribble the basketball as easily with one hand as the other, there are no excuses for not being a great dribbler.  My favorite basketball dribbling drills involve peripheral vision basketball practice drills using 2 basketballs:  Dribble both basketballs simultaneously, one basketball being dribbled by each hand, walking from one end of the court to the other and back again, etc.  

As you're dribbling these basketballs, rotate your head from side to side, with your eyeballs locked looking straight out.  When you're doing this properly it appears as if the gym is swinging back and forth.  If your vision is blurring you're rotating your head too quickly.  When you believe you're getting good at this basketball dribbling drill, and you'll know it when you're not stumbling around anymore, pick up the pace.  Eventually you'll be running flat out with  your head swiveling wildly on your shoulders.  Remember, on your dribble drive to swivel your head only as fast as your vision is clear and not blurred. 

When you become proficient with this basketball dribbling drill, then set yourself up an obstacle course to dribble through and continue raising the level of difficulty of your obstacle course.  These peripheral vision / basketball dribbling drills not only make you a better dribbler, in quick order I might add, they simultaneously teach you how to see the entire court, which in turn allows you to know where everyone is on the court at all times.  Knowing where everyone is all the time, good court vision, made Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan appear to have eyes in the back of their heads.  Practice these free basketball drills and include them with other basketball handling drills on this website, BasketballShootingCoach.com.