![]() The first shooter steps up we’ll say they make 3 and then miss the 4 th. You can decide the amount of shots they need to make in a row depending on the age and skill level.įor his example we’ll say they need to make 5 in a row. The goal of the drill is to make a certain number of shots in a row before the time expires. In-A-Row – Split your players up into groups of about 3 at each basket. And if he misses two, he runs a full lap all they way around the court.Ĥ. If he misses one, he does an up-and-back sprint. 5 minutes on the clock (or how ever many minutes you want). The only downside to that is the players won’t be as fatigued when they’re shooting their free-throws. If you don’t have enough rings for that, then it will work fine with more. Laps – This drill is best performed with 3 players at each basket. The rules being, if you make a shot you get 1 point, if you miss a shot you lose a point.ģ. Plus/Minus – Plus/Minus is similar to the ‘Swish’ free throw drill except you don’t need to swish the shot. To keep it simple, let’s say you start on 5 points and your goal is to get to 10. And for every miss, they get -1 points.Ģ. For every made basket that is not a swish, they get 0 points. ![]() The rules are: For every swish, the player gets 1 point. The way the drill works is the player shooting starts on 5 and the goal is to get to 10. ![]() Swish – Break your players up into two’s on three’s at each basket. If they’re on 7 and make a free throw they go to 8, but if they missed on 7, they would be on 5.ġ. This means that they start on 2 and must try to get to 10. Keep in mind when you’re reading the following drills that you can change how many points they get for a made basket and how many points they lose for a miss.įor instance, most of my players play ‘Plus 1, Minus 2’. ‘Team Drills’ are the drills that I recommend you use in your practice.īoth individual drills I’m about to share with you can be customised to the skill level of the player you’re coaching. These drills should be used when the player in training by themselves or in individual workouts. The ‘Individual Drills’ are drills that take longer to complete and are performed by only one player. They are broken up into two categories… team drills and individual drills. Here are the 5 drills you can use that will make your players better in-game free throw shooters. They’re barely ever going to shoot an un-fatigued free throw in a game, so why should they in practice? Do them after a hard conditioning drill. Make sure the players are fatigued before they step to the line. It will force your players to concentrate. The drills I’m about to share with you will accomplish this. We need to put them in that pressure mindset during these free throw drills to simulate the pressure of a real game. The players are in a completely different mindset when they’re under pressure. This is not what we want the players to do. The reason this is a poor method is because the players won’t be under pressure like they are when playing a game. They will just walk to the free-throw line and shoot without putting much effort or concentration into it. And unfortunately, this method is the most common among beginner coaches. The wrong way to practice free-throw shooting is telling your players to just “Shoot/make 5 free throws” between drills. I’m going to start by explaining the WRONG way to practice free-throw shooting. The Wrong Way to Practice Free-Throw Shooting I’m going to show you 5 drills you can use with your team to make them much better free-throw shooters.īut first I want to talk about the most common errors coaches make when teaching free-throw shooting… ![]() And when they do, they often don’t practice them in the most effective way. Every basketball coach knows that.īut even with this knowledge, most coaches still don’t spend enough time with their team practicing their free-throw shooting. To put it simply, free-throws are the most important shot in basketball. Close games are often decided by which teams can make the most free-throws down the stretch.
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