Name: How To Cure Inconsistent Shooting
Uploaded: 2025-06-28T14:08:39.000Z
Duration: 4 min 10 s
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What's up guys, it's Coach Drew, and today we're going to talk about how to become a more consistent shooter.

I always talk about being comfortable, confident, and consistent, and that's what all great shooters have, and so it's important that we're comfortable with our mechanics.

We also want to be consistent with our mechanics so we can get consistent results, and then if we do that over time, we'll develop the confidence to knock them down, not only in practice, but also in games.

Now, the consistent part is hard because we need to have consistent, repeatable form so that we're shooting the same way every single time, which is hard for two reasons.

One is because to kind of manipulate our shot in a certain way that we do the same thing every single time, we have to really lock in our mechanics, and two, it gets boring at times.

You know, when you're shooting thousands and thousands of reps, to do something as minute as kind of hold your follow through every single time, or to make sure you're squared every single time, or to make sure that you're maintaining your balance throughout your shot, that is hard.

It takes a lot of discipline, so we're going to talk about a few things that'll really help you lock in on your mechanics, become more consistent and disciplined in your kind of approach, so that ultimately you can become more of a consistent shooter.

So the first thing is we want the ball to spin really well.

We want that perfect backspin every single time.

And so there's a couple things that can kind of mess with your backspin, whether it's you're using your offhand thumb, or whether you're using your offhand hand, or whether you're blocking the ball, or whether your hand's on the side so you end up having to snap the ball to the side, or whether the ball's rolling off your wrong fingers instead of these two fingers.

There's a ton of different reasons, but there's a couple things we can do to make sure we get perfect backspin.

So the first thing we want to do is a three-finger drill.

We just simply find the air hole, we kind of put our three fingers right there, and we just snap it over and over again, and you can see that ball spins really pretty every single time, okay?

Once we do that, we build up to five fingers.

So again, now it's again one hand basically shooting, and we're just making sure that that ball is rolling off of these two fingers, but spinning perfectly every single time.

If we have perfect backspin, it's going to give us a nice soft kind of release, and then hopefully if we have our arm and our follow-through straight, which is the next thing we'll talk about, then the ball will move straight every single time.

So now once we have that perfect kind of one-hand backspin, we want to make sure that our offhand is not affecting it.

If you use your thumb and you still get good backspin, it's not really a problem, but ideally what we do is we kind of release it with our finger pads coming off, and then we have a straight follow-through right here with our balance hand instead of kind of every single time opening it up or exposing it or pulling it off.

So then the next step we do is we do two hands kind of shooting to make sure it's still straight every single time.

Once we do that, now we need to have a good, consistent, straight, smooth shot.

So basically right now you'll notice that my palm is facing the ground right here when I finish the So when I snap every single time, you can notice that this arm is pointing right at the rim, my pointer finger is pointing right at the rim, and my arm is not flaring in either direction.

Okay, so the next step is just making sure we get that consistent, straight snap every single time.

The next thing we have to do is now our upper body is taking care of itself.

So now we need to make sure that we have good rhythm and a good balanced base.

Whether you're squared or whether you're turned, it doesn't really matter.

And then what you're doing is you're just jumping up and landing in the same position.

I always like to say heel-toe on the way up and toe-heel on the way down.

So you notice when we start right here, we go from heel to toes and then toes to heel so that every single time we equally distribute the weight off of both of our feet.

We're just staying in our box every single time.

And if we do those things, we have a good balanced base both on the jump and the landing.

If we have a straight follow-through, if it's high and soft so that we get good arc and good drop angle, we make sure the ball is spinning perfectly, I promise you you'll become a good consistent shooter over time if you put the reps in every single day.