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To improve and refine a player's basketball skills which are crucial for enhancing the quality of play, it is essential to improve the athletic skills that allow him to elevate his play to a higher level. Athletic skills include variables such as speed, power, endurance, agility, coordination, balance and reaction time that contribute to the total development of the player. The level at which basketball skills are performed is directly related to the level of the athlete's total conditioning (Brittenham G., 1996). Plyometric is a rapid pre stretching of a muscle during an eccentric action, followed immediately by a concentric action of same muscle and connective tissue. This system involves stretch-shortening cycle of the muscle. It is a form of exercise which links strength with speed of movement. Plyometric or reactive jumps are known to be effective for development of explosive strength. Resistance training involves exercise programme that causes the muscles to contract against an external resistance with the expectation of increasing strength, tone, mass, and/or endurance. Agility is now considered a multidimensional component that involves balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength , endurance , acceleration ability and deceleration ability. Agility is the ability to Abstract: