Adam Greene is a CPA and partner at Greene & Company, LLP. He lives in Melville, NY, where he serves his community as a basketball coach in the Half Hollow Hills Youth League.

The following exercise is a great way to help kids overcome “dribble mania” by forcing them to develop their pivoting, movement, and court vision. If you remove the option to dribble, kids gain practice and confidence in other areas of offense and defense, including the ability to get open for a pass, the ability to make a long pass, and intercepting a pass.

Play three-on-three in which one team has

possession of the ball for two minutes at a

time. During those two minutes, the players

must pass the ball at least every five

seconds to each other without dribbling.

They get one point for each successful pass

but lose a point if the other team intercepts,

if they do not complete the pass within five

seconds, or if the ball goes out of bounds.

Play two to five rounds.