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PostPosted: 03 Feb 2013, 22:46 

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I am looking for some practice drills for gametime shooting woes. My guards get going so fast on their fast breaks and drives they can not seem to make their layups, then the inside kids are consistently missing easy rebound put backs, short 2-3 foot shots. In practice we work with the guards fastbreaking with a chaser behind them to get the speed up and intensity and they do ok it seems in practice. Same with the bigger kids, we work a few drills, like throwing it off the backboard , they catch the ball up high and go back up with it. But in the game, it looks to me like the guards are running with their heads down and do not really know where they are in reference to the basketball when they go up for the layup and the bigs shoot like its a hot potatoe or they are going to have an anxioty attack if they don't get rid of it as soon as they get it. It looks like they short hand the shot and in both cases, I think they are not looking at the basket until the very last second before they release the ball.
Does anyone have any recommendations or drills we can use to work on this?


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PostPosted: 03 Feb 2013, 23:25 

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For your big guys, I like the Mikan Drills. I use these for all players also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMegqIaYunI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmTI8y6Anvo

Another drill we use is the KY lay-up drill full court. Coaches at top of each key, line of players on each end. Players start by passing to coach and sprint towards other end, coach passes ball out in front of player and has them do a full court layup. Two lines are going at once, so the layups occur simultaneously at both ends. Next person in line gets rebound, passes to coach, etc. Great conditioning drill, too.

I also use a simple lay-up drill from the elbows. They must not look down and take one to two dribbles, then make the lay-up. The tendency will be to look down when they start the dribble, emphasize eyes to the rim.

A more realistic layup drill is our smack 'em up drill. Two orange cones on each elbow. Players start on one side under basket and dribble around cones. We have a coach (usually me) waiting in middle of paint to slap an arm or give them a little contact. Same deal as previous drill, eyes need to be up looking at the square, not at me or down. We like this drill because it teaches kids to expect contact and keep focused.

A lot of this comes with experience in games. Practice is one thing, games add that additional pressure.

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PostPosted: 04 Feb 2013, 12:19 
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Usually the biggest cause of this is inexperience. So it will improve with more experience and confidence. Like you said they get anxious.

Not sure if you've seen this, but here are a few ideas on making lay ups:
http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/fundamentals/layups-3tips.html

Also, it depends on the age too. Young kids are usually pretty awful at making game shots.

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