Basketball Shooting Training

One of my readers, Tye, actually suggested this idea for basketball shooting training.  I’ve included these basketball drills here for you below.

From Tye…
A couple of ideas that have helped us improve.

We spend the first 20 min of practice with conditioning type drills; they may be different drills everyday but we always include the following two:

The first 10 min we do 2 on 2 shooting.
P1 passes to P2 and closes out on P2.  P2 shoots and then follows their shot.  On a miss they are allowed to put it back if it doesn’t hit the floor.  After they rebound the make or miss they then pass to P1 who has spotted up for the shot.

The other drill we run is called “X Drill”.  Two lines are formed outside the 3pt line free throw line extended.  Two balls in each line.  The first person in line 1 curls off the opposite elbow and receives the pass from the other line and continues to the basket for a hard layup.  After the pass is made that person cuts to the other block and receives the pass for a layup.  This continues until the team makes 20 layups in a row.  After layups we continue to shots from the elbow, then bank shots then 3 pts.

This drill is fast paced and has helped with finishing under the basket in traffic.