Skill Development:

• Explain passing
  • Have kids come up with list of passes for basketball
    • Chest
    • Bounce
    • Overhead
    • Baseball
    • No look pass
    • Behind the back pass
• All with a partner with a ball to share
• Practice the passes that the class came up with
• Give them :30 to get as many passes as they can
  • Have them compare which passes gives them the higher scores
• All with partner and 2 balls to share
  • Pass both balls at the same time
  • One throw a bounce pass and one throw a chest pass
• Put one ball away and keep partner
  • On signal, partner with ball dribbles away from the other partner
  • Other partner runs after them (do not tag them, just chase them)
  • On whistle, face each other and pass the ball back and forth as quickly as possible
  • On signal, whoever has the ball dribbles away while the other partner chases
  • Try to get more passes before you tell them to go again

Application:

• All with partner and one ball to share
  • Pass to partner who is running in to a basket to shoot
    • The partner who passes then goes to another basket while the first partner is shooting
    • Shooter gets own rebound then looks for their partner
    • Pass to partner at their new basket
    • Passer then runs to a different basket
  • Sequence repeats itself over and over
• UNO Passing
  • All with partner
  • One partner get a "UNO" card from teacher
  • Number on the card tells you how many passes to do with your partner
  • Color of card tells you the type of pass
    • Red: chest
    • Blue: Bounce
    • Green: overhead
    • Yellow: No look pass
  • Make them double, triple the card's number to get the amount of passes to do