Porter Moser's Favorite Player Development Drills

In this highly valuable, on-the-court instructional video, Coach Moser offers a plethora of proven concepts, basketball principles and innovative methods for teaching the game – all in an easy-to-digest, teachable format – that will enable you to immediately use and install in your program right away.

Reminder Drills, Disadvantage Drills

Building and improving the fundamentals of all players are an essential component of team success, even at the highest levels. Without possessing a mastery of the game’s fundamentals, players don’t understand the why behind what they are doing.  

To begin, Coach Moser demonstrates some of his favorite ‘Reminder Drills’ – the critical drill work that he uses to not only build solid skills, but also serve as daily reinforcements that teach all the ‘little concepts’ that play a key role in helping to place players in the best position possible to have success.  

In a demonstration of the ‘Verticality Drill,’ Coach Moser shows how players must work fundamental defense by jumping straight in the air to avoid a blocking foul and then sprint the opposite way down court to perform ball-handling skills as they attack the rim. The Sooners head coach emphasizes that this combination of skills working into one drill is a great way to maximize gym space and limited practice time. 

Coach Moser explains the importance of player communication and points out how the days of players just going through the motions on defense or offense are long gone. To improve player communication, he showcases ‘Disadvantage Drills’ – which involves daily work where players are required to talk and communicate with teammates. 

Showcasing his ‘4-on-3 Disadvantage Drill,’ Moser instructs the defense to work on guarding the paint and use verbal communication with one another as a means to avoid giving up an easy layup or open shot. The offensive players, meanwhile, place pressure on the defenders by using good ball movement, with good passes that move the basketball around the floor as quickly as possible. Coach Moser emphasizes that this is also an excellent drill to build trust among your players.

Skill Development 

To round out this concept-based instructional coaching video, Coach Moser turns his focus to skill development. He explains the importance of guards and posts working together on the court, but that also remembering to place a heavy emphasis on improving the individual skill-set of all players is a key component to building up your team’s confidence to execute in games.   Coach Moser explains that a heavy coaching focus on skill development teaches players how to play the game, rather than how to run plays. In a drill called ‘Start The Domino,’ players must work on several key actions found within all offenses: driving hard to the basket, working on the proper kick-out pass, precise ball-screen actions, and using curl cuts to create spacing and offensive flow within a half-court offense.

Moser points out that developing a mastery of these key actions elevates your players’ basketball IQ and allows them to run a true motion offense without having to rely on set plays to get good open shots.

In a drill called ‘Post-Skill Drill,’ players perform typical Mikan Drill work, including Reverse Mikan sets, and 2-Ball Mikan work to improve the ability to finish around the rim. Bigs also concentrate and learn the concepts and principles of setting good ball screens – the kind of screens that help teammates get open looks or create a scoring opportunity for themselves using pick-and-roll action.

This instructional video proves that Porter Moser’s reputation as an excellent teacher is warranted. In teaching the WHYs of the game, Moser gets his players to buy into the overall culture of the basketball program.  

This must-see video provides the knowledge, insight and strategies to help you elevate your players and take your program to new heights!

Customer Review: 5 Out of 5 Stars. ‘Excellent teaching video! Coach Moser has great concepts and explains them in a simple and easy to understand manner – which will help as you teach them to your own players.’  

68 minutes. 2023.