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[quote=Anonymous]Above is good advice.  If you don’t know basketball, read and have your son read about learning to shoot.  Most kids don’t improve because they don’t do one handed from shooting from close in and they don’t shoot from close in enough generally.  A player who can’t regularly make 10/10 free throws in practice, for example, should not be practicing 3s.

My kid’s trainer had a warmup routine for kids he trained of making at least 18/20 from 3’, 18/20 from 5’, 13/15 from 8’, 8/10 from free throw, 7/10 from 12’, and 6/9 from three.  If kid failed any distance twice, the previous success was his range limit for that entire workout.  This was EVERY workout, not just with trainer.

Once kid is great at catch and shoot, work on arc and quick release.  Form shooting helps with that — cures kids of “push” shooting form that’s so easy to block.  Then work on elevating on shots.  Then shooting off the dribble.  Then one dribble move to a pull up jumper, then two, etc.  Most people don’t realize that every step is a new learning process.  An excellent catch and shoot kid who masters shooting off the dribble with one move (i.e. crossover then shot) will miss many more when adding another move (I.e. through the legs, crossover, shot).  It’s surprising (and frustrating to kids) but totally common.

One challenge for short guards coming into high school is that they sometimes get stuck just driving into traffic over and over and getting blocked. My kid’s freshman team had a kid like that. He was successful in MS, but just got stuffed in HS.  Your kid pass of course, but should also develop multiple sequences of well-drilled, effective moves with variants leading to shots from 3, midrange, and at the rim.  That way, they do something different every possession.  For example, shot fake dribble left, then 3.  Next time, when defender expects that, they do shot fake, in and out, dribble to midrange.  Next time, same start but leading to a spin move at the rim. Next time, same thing but fake spin and up and under.  I once watched my kid go through the whole sequence like this his trainer drilled with him over the course of a a game in the exact order they drilled it, and it worked each time because his defender kept expecting what he had done the last time. When you add kick outs to teammates, the varieties are endless.

Also, don’t let your kid work on fading or falling shots they see NBA guys do until they are hitting tons of threes in games and drawing defense.  [/quote]

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