Shooting Drills

This toughness shooting drill called “The Rip Hamilton Drill” and is among the resources for both coaches and player available from basketballhq. They have several more videos as well as basketball coaching resource articles.

Please make sure your sound is on to see the video.

Click the play arrow to see the drill. The drill is a YouTube video, so you will need to be able to access YouTube to see the drill.

The Coach in the video is Russ Willemsen from the South Alabama men’s staff.

The drill can be modified to fit your needs and used during your fall skill development workouts or can be used in practices this coming season as well.

To score a point in the drill, the player must make 2 shots in a row from one spot. One shot is a catch-and-shoot three-point shot, the second shot is a one-dribble pull up. The shooter should alternate those shots until they make two in a row. When you do the drill live, shoot pull ups going right for the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds, then shoot 5 free throws. Finish out the last two and a half minutes with pull up shots going left.

The goal of the drill is to score as many “spots” as possible in 5 minutes. Since the video is a demonstration, the shooter only shoots for 2 minutes.

If you run the drill for 5 minutes, there certainly is an aspect of mental toughness as players need to fight through consecutive misses.

I have also posted a second shooting drill video below.

Rip Hamilton Shooting Drill

Hedge Game Situations Shooting Drill

Some shooting drills with some conditioning that hopefully you might be able to use in your pre-season program if you are allowed to work with players, or to file and use in your early season practices.

These drills are from Coach Justin Remington’s Moreno Valley High School Out of season (aka improvement season) Shooting Program.

He is also a basket instructor for PGC (Point Guard College)

His Twitter feed is @Coach_JRem

I posted some other shooting drills last month at this link: 3 Competitive Shooting Drills

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Transition 3s

PLAYER MUST MAKE TOTAL OF 10 SHOTS 2 FROM EACH OF THE 5 SPOTS AROUND THE PERIMETER:

Player starts half court

Player sprints to corner and receives pass from coach, if it is missed they must sprint
back to half court and back to the same spot again until it is made…

When shot is made they sprint to the half court line and move on to the next shot in the progression…

the wing shot, then TOK, then other wing, and then corner…

PLAYER MUST MAKE THE SHOT AT THE SPOT THEY ARE AT BEFORE MOVING ONTO THE NEXT SHOT

GO AROUND THE ARC AND MAKE YOUR WAY BACK TO END THE DRILL

Agility Shooting

Player starts at the top of the right elbow sprints diagonally to left block, turns and curls the corner and runs up to left elbow, curls and receives pass from coach for a shot,

then runs to the bottom right block and curls that cone and curls the top right elbow cone for another pass and
jumper…

Make 5

The possibilities here and patterns are endless, use your creativity to incorporate agility into shooting…

Opposite Rim Finishes

Player starts under the basket and sprints to the sideline, touches, and sprints back receives pass from the coach and finishes
(can be a regular finish or a reverse layup, or any style of layup finish you feel needs to be worked on)…

Player will go to the other sideline, touch, and come back t o the rim again for another pass from the coach.

Select a number of makes you want. Put a time and number of makes you would like to see to make it more competitive.

Some competitive shooting drills with some conditioning that hopefully you might be able to use in your pre-season program.

These drills are from Coach Justin Remington’s Moreno Valley High School Summer Shooting Program.

He is also a basket instructor for PGC Basketball.

His Twitter feed is @Coach_JRem

 

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16 Shot Shooting

1 starts at coaches box/sideline and sprints into a wing 18 foot jump shot …

1 back pedals 3 times and sprints into a corner three pointer.

1 sprints through the key to opposite corner back up to the coaches box/sideline and turns and sprints for an 18 footer from the wing

1 backpedals three times and then sprints for a corner 3

*Repeat this pattern until player has shot 16 shots.

***To make it competitive put a time limit on it and a number of makes that they should have…

Ladder Drill

Player sprints from sideline to opposite elbow and catches a pass from the coach for a shot.

 

 

 
 

After the first catch and shoot:

Player touches near sideline and then MUST sprint across the floor to opposite sidelines and then come back for elbow jumper again (from same spot as first frame)

After that jumper (since she has touched 2 sidelines she gets two elbow shots in a row). She must arc to the pposite elbow for a second shot

After the second shot:

The player sprints t o near side sideline then to the opposite sideline, then back to the other sideline, then she can sprint to the elbow for a shot…

Since the player touched the sideline 3 times now she must shoot three alternating elbow jumpers before going on to the next stage of the ladder

Now the player goes sideline to sideline 4 times.

Then she goes to the elbow for elbow to elbow shots. She gets four elbow shots…

Continue this drill to 5 sideline touches and 5 elbow to elbow shots.

***Once they get in shape work your way back DOWN the LADDER… 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

***Players w i l l get extremely fatigue during t h i s drill. Stress consistency in footwork and in follow through as well as not allowing them to drift on their shots…

Round of Threes

5 shooting spots around the perimeter for this drill

The player will have to make two threes each spot first time around before moving on to the next spot

After completing all five spots the player will make their way back around the perimeter only having to make one this time to move on.

Look at the other frames to see where the coach is passing from. (it is wise to have a rebounder or manager getting rebounds in all of these shooting drills)

Teaching Points from the Corner:

1. I stress Open Hips to the passer (to step into your shot), so in the left corner the player would have their left foot facing the basket (five toes to the basket) and their right foot open so that the shooter HIPS face
the passer. Coach will pass the ball to 1. One brings right foot forward, square up, and shoot.

After making two shots at the first spot the player will run into the next shot at the wing. Here she must make two as well.

Teaching Points:

1. Footwork on the move from corner to wing is left foot (inside foot) first to square you right foot comes around

2. When they are stationary footwork is the same as in the corner

 

1 runs from wing to TOK

For the OPPOSITE SIDE coach should mirror what where they passed the ball from

***Remember AFTER the complete two makes from each spot they MUST come back around the perimeter and make one shot
each spot before moving on

These shooting drills were posted in the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library

The site has thousands of drills and plays that have been submitted by basketball coaches from around the world.

You can also find out more about FastModel Play Diagramming software by clicking this link: FastDraw.

I hope you can either add these to your summer workouts for a change of pace, or can use them for your fall workouts, or possibly even save them for practice when the season starts.

These drills were contributed by Kyle Gilreath. Kyle served as a graduate manager at Florida and is currently the Head Boys Coach at Astronaut High School in Florida.

He contributes a great deal of content to the coaching community through the FastModel library and his coaching blog, Words on the Bounce.

Kyle is the author of the coaching eBook Championship Execution. He is currently on the Pure Sweat Basketball staff as well.

Hall of Fame Shooting Drill

Make 8 shots from each of the 5 zones.

Make the following 8 shots from each of the 5 zones (color designates the spot where the shot starts:

1. Catch & Shoot
2. Mid-Rand Catch & Shoot
3. 3-pointer Catch & Shoot
4. 1 Dribble Right – Shot
5. 1 Dribble Left- Shot
6. 1 Dribble Right – Step-Back
7. 1 Dribble Left – Step-Back
8. 3-pointer Catch & Shoot

If a shot is missed, you go back to the previous spot/shot within that ‘zone’.

Cone Shooting Progression

 

Catch & Shoot

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Right – Shot

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Left – Shot

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Right – Continuous Lateral Between the Legs – Shot

 

 
 

 

1 Dribble Left – Continuous Lateral Between the Legs – Shot

 

 
 

 

1 Dribble Right – Change – Floater/Runner

 

 

 

 

1 Dribble Left – Change – Floater/Runner

 

 

 

This drill is a from Coach Mike Neighbors. He is currently an assistant coach with the Dallas Wings.

He used this drill when he coached in college, 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

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.

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!!!