4 Ball Handling Tips From the Video:

1. Hold position, be strong
Too often, many players let a little contact throw them off their game. The first drill in the video is meant to get players to handle the ball and maintain their ground through contact.
2. Crossover outside your knee
In the video, Coach Eastman says to cross outside your knee to keep it more game-like. It’s crucial to do this, because it keeps the ball away from the defender after you cross over.
3. Use eyes to sell fakes
Eyes up to shot fake – Before you shoot the ball, you usually look at the rim. By looking at the rim, this helps sell your shot fake because the defensive player thinks you are about to shoot. When I played, I rarely pump faked. I aggressively set my feet, focused on the rim, and put the ball in shooting position. By putting the ball in my shooting position and aggressively setting my feet, I could often drive by defenders, because they would often close out too hard or jump because it looked like I was going to shoot. If they did not close out hard, I pulled up for the jump shot.
Eyes down to shoot – If you put your eyes down, the defensive player thinks you are going to drive and that may cause the defender to give you some cushion which opens up the jump shot.
4. Get out of your comfort zone
In order to get better, it’s crucial to challenge yourself and make mistakes. To me, this is one of the biggest problems with youth and high school players. Too many players are worried about how they look when they practice. That was one of my biggest problems in high school as well. I didn’t like to make mistakes, so I never pushed myself outside of my comfort zone.
If you practice only things that are comfortable, then you will never improve very much.

Multipurpose Ball Handling, Passing, Cutting, and Finishing Drill

Check out the video by Jeff Haefner at Breakthrough Basketball below of this great multi-purpose drill that will improve your ball handling, passing, cutting, and finishing.



You can see the diagrams here http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/multi-purpose-ball-handling.html

1v1 Full Court Defense Drill

This is a great drill that improves ball handling, 1v1 defense, and athleticism. It also conditions your players and is a vital foundation for any team defense.

Instructions

    •    The offensive player and the defensive player start on the baseline.
    •    The offensive player tries to beat the defensive player down the court.
    •    If the offensive player goes by the defender and the defender does not recover, the offensive player goes back to the spot where the defender was beat and starts from there again.
    •    Offensive player and defensive player alternate after one trip.

Variations:
    •    Use the whole court. This gives the offensive player more space and creates more of a challenge for the defensive player. However, you can not have as many players participating in the drill at the same time.
    •    Man in the hole - defensive player has to play defense 3 consecutive trips against 3 different offensive players. Each line would require four players. This is a great conditioner and forces the defender to become mentally disciplined.
    •    No Ball - the offensive player does not have a ball and tries to get past the defender. Good challenge if you have a great athlete on your team.

Here are a few things to emphasize:
    •    All Feet. Don't Reach. When practicing this drill, players tend to reach. Reinforce "All Feet" to make sure they are not reaching. Not only does reaching increase the number of fouls committed, when players reach, they lose their balance for an instant. 

    •    Chest Up. Remind the players to keep their torso up. You want the neck/chin is above the toes, this is a good position. 

    •    Chest Forward. The player is leaning too far back and is putting too much weight on his heels which makes it difficult to stay balanced and explode in either direction. 

    •    Front Of Feet.  Heep the majority of the weight on the front of the feet to stay balanced and ready to move in any direction. 

    •    Don't Lean.  When players lean too much to one side, they will lose balance. When players stop, they reposition their shoulders in the new direction they are heading. This helps prevent the upper body from swaying and the player from losing balance. 

    •    Run! Sometimes, a player may be lightning-quick and the defensive player will struggle to keep up using just the defensive shuffle. So the player has to run with their upper-body facing the offensive player to stay in front. A lot of athletic development coaches call this the crossover step. Players will also have to turn and run to get in front of the offensive player if they have gotten beat.

2 Ball Dribbling Progression

Two ball dribbling is better, I think, than doing stationary dribbling with one ball because the player can do 2x the work in the given amount of time. It strengthens the weak hand . Have the player pound the ball HARD, keep it knee to waist high, and keep the eyes up.

Start with a stationary progression for about five minutes. Then do a five minute section where the players are dribbling and moving.There are MANY variations on these drills.

2 Ball Stationary Series (5 minutes)

Below is the series of stationary ball handling drills. Do each part for 30 seconds (use a stopwatch) or aske the players to count a set number. 

Progression:

*Pound Together

*Pound Alternating

*Pound Ankle High

*Right Hand High, Left Hand Low (ankle)

*Left Hand High, Right Hand Low (ankle)

*Continuous Crossover

*Pound Right Hand, Left Hand Dribble Around Left Leg (don’t switch hands)

*Pound Left Hand, Right Hand Dribble Around Left Leg (don’t switch hands)

*Push and Pull On Side

*Push and Pull In Front

*Behind Back with Right, Cross in Front with Left (switch hands)

*Behind Back with Left, Cross in Front with Right (switch hands)

*Crossover Right Hand, Between Legs with the Left Hand (switch hands)

* Crossover Left Hand, Between Legs with the Right Hand (switch hands)

*Behind Back with Right Hand, Between Legs with Left Hand (switch hands)

* Behind Back with Right Hand, Between Legs with Left Hand (switch hands)

*Pound Hard (At Shoulders)

*Windshield Wipers front to back outside of each foot

*Windshield Wipers left to right in front of toes

2 Ball Moving Series I

In this series, players go down and back the length of the court (or down and back twice the width if you need many players going) one time for each in the following progressions. You must stress going as fast as they can to challenge themselves, but not so fast that they are out of control. They should keep their head/eyes up and look where they are going. Pick a spot on the wall ahead of them, look at the coach, look at the basketball hoop, whatever they have to do. If you have limited court space, you can run the drill so that while ½ of the group is doing stationary, ½ is doing the moving.

*Pound Together

*Pound Alternate

*Ankle High

*Crossover

*Pound Together Attack and Retreat Dribble

*Attack and Retreat with a Hand Change (Crossover, crossover and between legs, crossover and behind back, etc)

*Pound High (Shoulder)

*Shuffle Sideways

*Backwards