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Basketball Drills: Shooting Stars Shooting Drill

By Brian Williams on July 8, 2015

Basketball Drills: Shooting Stars Shooting Drill

This drill is a from Arkansas Women’s Coach Mike Neighbors’ newsletter.

His basketball coaching newsletter is one of the oldest and best around.

If you are interested in joining his distribution list, email me and I will pass your email address along to him.

This drill is used in his college women’s program, but can be tweaked to fit the resources and personnel that you have available in your coaching situation.

I hope you can find a way to find a system for all of your shooting drills to reward both game speed and shots made.

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Shooting Stars Shooting Drill

We put a new twist on an old classic. I grew up shooting “stars” with my uncles in the driveway.

We always tracked number of makes or timed how long it took me to make 10 or 12.

Looking for a new way to insure players took game shots, from our game spots, at our game speed, we came up with this way to make it competitive among our three point shooters.

Keys to this drill:
1) Our game shots
2) From our game spots
3) At our game speed

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It’s a ten shot drill. Player shoots from the corner (spot 1), sprints to opposite wing for shot 2, to the other wing for shot 3, to opposite corner for shot 4, finally to top of the key for shot 5.

Back to the starting corner for 6 and repeat the pattern of wing, wing, corner top to finish with 10 shot attempts.

We start the time as soon as she releases first shot and stop on release of shot 10.

We then take the total time and subtract 3 seconds for each MADE shot.

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This tracking rewards the player for sprinting between while being able to settle and make shots.

The goal became get as close to 0.00 has possible.

For example, complete the star in 38.25 seconds with 8 makes would yield a score of 14.25. The fastest time we have on record is by Kelsey Plum. Made 9 shots in 30.20 seconds for a time of 3.20. I will predict she will eventually get a 0.00 or a negative time!!!

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  1. Angel Ojeda says

    July 8, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    Question: Does the shooter get her own rebound?

  2. Jeff Brown says

    July 8, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    Does the shooter rebound for themselves or is there a rebounder that rebounds and passes to them?

  3. Kurt Douglas says

    December 24, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    I would be interested in receiving the Washington newsletter.
    Thanks, have a Merry Christmas

  4. Rae Drake says

    April 3, 2016 at 2:25 pm

    I would be very Coach Neighbors newsletter. Thank You

  5. Richard Ebel says

    September 12, 2016 at 12:30 pm

    I would like to receive the Washington newsletter. Thank you in advance.

  6. Chris Aldworth says

    September 13, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    Can you please pass along my email for Washington Women’s Coach Mike Neighbors’ newsletter. Thanks!

  7. rick pergolini says

    September 5, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    Coach, Does the shooter rebound for herself after every shot?

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