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Shooting Drills: When running shooting drills it is EXTREMELY important that you follow the mantra “Perfect Practice Makes Perfect”. Remind your players of the B-E-E-F principles during every shooting drill that you use. For more advanced shooting drills, try placing defender in front of the player shooting the ball to simulate a game situation.

Basketball Shooting Drills – Stick Your Landing

These 3 basketball shooting drills teach a player to shoot a jump shot well. Your basketball player will learn that to stick his landing is a key coaching point along with the proper extension.

Basketball Conditioning – Free Throws

My college coach would have us do basketball conditioning at the beginning of every practice (and at the end, as well). The reason he did this was because he wanted us to be tired when we shot our Free Throws. If you can hit FT’s when you’re tired, you can also hit them when you’re not.

Basketball Shooting Drills – Competitive Shooting Drill

If you are searching for basketball shooting drills, try this competitive shooting drill with your team. This is a great basketball drill, not only in teaching players to shoot under pressure, but also for conditioning.

Basketball Shooting Drills – Free Throw Believers & Spellers

After some full court conditioning, I use these basketball shooting drills. The focus of both of the drills is the Free Throw. I call the first basketball drill–Free Throw Believers. It goes like this.

Basketball Shooting Drills and Tips

These are some of my favorite basketball shooting drills and tips. They are quick, build competitiveness and effective. Give these a try at your basketball practice.