How to throw a basketball
It seems a little trivial to do a “how” to shoot a basketball, you pick it up and you shoot the ball, duh. It may seem like an easy task but if you ask almost any good player today they will tell you that at some point in their life someone taught them, either formally, as a coach or, informally, as a friend or family member. how to shoot a basketball correctly.
So how do you shoot a basketball correctly? In the rest of this article I’ll try to break down the steps required to throw a basketball the right way, so let’s get into that.
The first part of this is about your shooting posture and how you hold the ball just before taking a shot.
Step 1. Make sure you have good posture when shooting the basketball. If your posture is for the week, it will be difficult to get a good feeling when shooting. If you keep your legs locked, you are more prone to losing your balance, and while some of these NBA players make off-balance shots look easy, to most people it is not.
Step 2. Make sure you are holding the ball correctly.
Step 3. You want to keep the ball in the correct position before picking it up to shoot it; We call this the “shooting pocket.” The proper position to hold the ball is a few inches above the waist on the shooting side, if you are left-handed, it is your left side and vice versa for right-handers, with the elbow directly under the ball.
These next steps are about the best part of throwing a basketball, the shot itself!
Step 4. Begin the shooting motion by pushing the ball up from your “shooting pocket” with your shooting hand. Now where you release the ball is another part of the shot’s “feel”.
Step 5. With each shot you will want to jump a bit, the only exception to this is free throws, which most shooters remain motionless.
Step 6. Everything has come down to this final step, the launch. The throw of the basketball should take place just before reaching the height of your jump from the last step.
If everything goes according to plan and you follow these 6 fairly simple steps, you should see the ball touch nothing but the net and hear that beautiful sound of the net snapping.
Once you have figured out these steps, there is an additional step you need to take
Step 7 (Bonus Step). Hands-on hands-on practice.
Hope you enjoyed this article on how to throw a basketball and hope it brings you success in your future basketball endeavors.