Taking charges.
Did one yesterday in practice that made me think of this question. Two on two inside back zone of volleyball court. No dribbles. Each possession exchanged between teammates counts as a point. First to ten wins. Let them grab and hold a bit if you want it to get a little more heated. Not a bad conditioner either, if the teams are decently matched. I'd only do it once a week or so, unless you want some fights.
I do something similar to this. Called the 60 point drill. Teams have to run their offense without dribbling the ball. Defense gets after it pretty good because they don't have to worry about being burnt on the dribble drive. It forces the offense to set good, hard screens and to make solid cuts. Teaches good skills on offense and physicality. Every pass counts as a point, but you do not score if you throw it back to the player that threw you the pass, unless if that person screened away and came back on a cut or was open on a back door cut.
One point for each pass, one point for a made 3, two points for a made jump shot within the perimeter, 3 points for a made layup, 1 point for an offensive rebound, and 5 points for a defensive stop.
Team stays on offense/defense until one reaches 60 points? Alternate possessions? Make it take it?
Sometimes we would start with an allowed dribble entry to start on a pick n roll, or adapt to a two or three dribble maximum. This forces your guards to not become dribble happy and to see options off the roll. Also it keeps the non pick n' roll players from just being spectators and actually getting out and moving. I hope that helps!
We would alternate and start from a dead ball start at the top of the key. However, we would occasionally run it off inbounds as well. To make our defense work harder for stops, we would occasionally play make it, take it. It can be pretty flexible in what you want to do.
You can play to 60 and make the loser pay up. Competitiveness is just as important as toughness.
