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USA Basketball - 3 Ways to Make More 3-Point Shots
Lots of players would like to be able to increase their shooting range and become a good 3-point shooter. We all know of examples of players, like Robert Horry, who are recruited to join teams mostly because of their ability to make 3-point shots. "Big Shot Rob" has seven--that's right, seven -- NBA championship rings. Shooters with deep range have helped teams on every level win championships.
Here are three incredibly simple drills and concepts that can help any player extend their shooting range and add to their scoring arsenal.
Warm-Up Speed
Jog (but never walk) through each of these shots. This will help you work up a sweat.
Start around five feet from the basket, and shoot until you make a shot all-net before moving back one step. Repeat the process until you get all the way back to the 3-point line. Continue shooting until you make an all-net 3-pointer.
Initially, do this from the baseline and work your way back to the 3-point line in the corner.![]()
Then do the other (right or left baseline) and finally go down the middle and finish with a 3-pointer from the top of the key. Finally, do your normal stretching routine.
Practice Speed
This next part of your practice shooting is best done with a rebounder and a passer. However, if shooting on your own, simply pass to yourself, shoot, rebound and speed dribble back to the spot.
You are now repeating the process of working your way back, only this time going as fast as you think you can, then speeding up your perception of what you think is going fast, and go even faster! Obviously this is great conditioning.
There are several kinds of footwork currently being used by good shooters. These include: the classic inside foot 1-2 step, the 2-foot jump stop, the plant rear foot and step-in, and hop into the shot (1-2 step or 2-foot jump stop). Ask your coach before deciding what do to.
Make one all-net shot of each of the following types of shots and work your way back from three distances: start at 10 feet out, then move to 15 feet and finally to 3-point range.
Do both a catch-and-shoot and a shot off the dribble, moving left-right-center. That's six made all-net baskets from each spot.
As before, you must make an all-net shot before progressing to the next type of shot and distance.
Competitive Speed
This is the most important part of becoming a proficient shooter in actual games. Do this workout with defenders. Learning this way will give you transference from practice to actual games. You'll play this way and it will be easy to make shots in games and at crunch time.
Have defenders close out on you (sometimes from closer than they will be in the game) to try and steal the ball and block the shot. Want to become a fearless shooter? Have the defender foul you on purpose. But this should be just a slap on the wrist or controlled nudge, so you don't get hurt. Make (again not just take) three shots like this during every practice and you will become a more focused "in the zone" shooter. You probably will also get to the free throw line in games and have a chance to make a 4-point play!
Math + Honesty = Real Results
Have you noticed that doing any one of the stages will cause you to make -- not just take (this includes shots that go in without being all-net) -- over 100 shots!
You shouldn't care about missing.
You don't have to make every shot, just shoot until you make the amount of shots needed to progress to the next stage. Do only as many stages as you are comfortable with. The warm-up stage alone will make anyone a better shooter and is essentially what many great shooters in the NBA do a couple hours before every game.
By the way, just because you take a lot of 3-point shots and you think that you are a 3-point shooter, doesn't mean you are. If it takes more than 15 shots to make an all-net 3-pointer and you have to change your shot to get the basketball to reach the basket, then the 3-point shot is out of your range -- for now.
Your current and realistic range is where you can make two all-net shots in 10 attempts or less. Just be patient with yourself and work on these drills and stay within your range and you will soon gradually extend that range.
Before attempting the 3-point shot in games, first make (just get it in -- you don't have to shoot all-net) six out of 10 in practice on three separate practice days.
These shots should be from where you would shoot within the flow of your offense. That's when the statistic of probability is on your side, and you will have a real mathematical chance to shoot at least 35-40 percent from 3-point range when you play.
Anyone Can Do This
I have personally used these drills as a head coach at both the high school level and an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level. I was fortunate to learn quite a bit about 3-point shooting while serving as assistant coach with Craig Hodges. As a player, Craig was on the Chicago Bulls' first championship team with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, both now in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Craig also won the NBA All-Star Weekend 3-point contest three years in a row.
Increasing range and becoming proficient at 3-point shooting will not only help you have more success now, it will also increase your chances to move to the next level. Look at what Pitino, Horry and Hodges have accomplished.
Now it's your turn.
How to Shoot Three Pointers, According to Stephen Curry
This interview was published August, 2014
During an afternoon at Pier 36 in New York, known simply as Basketball City, a revitalized sports mecca in the shadows of the Manhattan Bridge, I got to ask NBA guard Stephen Curry a unique question: “So, honestly, how did I shoot today?”
A slight but knowing smirk crosses Curry’s face, followed by a pause that can only be categorized as the most polite response a human can muster as he searches for the right words. The 26-year-old All-Star for Golden State, a second-generation pro talent, is arguably the best shooter in the game today (he still says Ray Allen is king). Curry’s career 44 percent from beyond the arc is currently third in league history as he enters his sixth season. But drawing from the Degree slogan he wears across his back as the brand’s ambassador, Curry believes he can always “DO:MORE” to improve.
“I’m just trying to hone my skills to a more precise and better level than they were last year when it comes to ball handling, seeing the floor, pick-and-roll situations, and shooting the basketball,” Curry says. “You can never really stop working.”
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Curry walks a few of us through his summer shooting drills, explaining everything he works on from bottom to top with an acronym he learned from his father as a kid: B-E-E-F
Balance: “Keep your feet shoulder-width apart with your dominant foot just slightly ahead of your other, maybe six inches. Bend your knees for a good foundation.”
Eyes: “Keep your focus on the front of the rim. There are three hooks holding the net up that are always facing you, and they’re about the width of a basketball, so I lock my eyes on that target and try to put the ball just over those hooks, instead of aiming at the back of the rim.”
Elbow: “Keep your elbows bent with your upper arm perpendicular to the basket and parallel to the ground so it’s stacked—not just hanging out like a chicken wing.
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Follow-Through: “You always have to follow through every shot. It helps you shoot with a better arch and get a better rotation on the ball. And there are always cameras on you, so it helps you look good whether you make it or miss it.”
He also explains how his bodyweight workouts focus on becoming stronger in moves specific to basketball, “Like exploding to my right hand, pushing off, and being able to get to that spot quicker, and rise for the shot quicker,” while also not building bulk that might confuse his feel for the ball. “My body won’t change much, but I’ll be stronger each year.”
After the drills, we square-off in a three-point contest. I make eight of 25, followed by Curry nailing his first five in succession before missing 15 straight in the way only a polite man with pinpoint accuracy can. So how did I do?
“You’re like Tim Duncan,” Curry finally muses. “You like to use that glass. That’s your forte. Once you get the touch for it, you’ll be fine.
And you got better once you were outside the arc, so maybe you’re just too strong for this game.”
Yes. It’s definitely that. Absolutely. And nothing else.
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3 tips for increasing shooting distance
Nikita Yamshchikov, Founder of Ball In
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How to shoot three-pointers or even how to make three-pointers? How to throw from a logo like Curry or Yang? Asked such questions?
Keep 3 tips to help you!
Tip 1
Work on the quality of the movement: how you lift the ball from the bottom and how you release it. Try to move the ball close to the body and not back behind the head, this will give more energy to the ball.
"Use your feet to hit a 3-pointer" is often a misnomer because it's more important to transfer energy to the ball efficiently rather than pushing stupidly up when the ball is dead center.
To improve this, try throwing without legs. For example, sitting on a chair or with a wide setting of the legs.
Tip 2
Don't rush to chase long distances at once. Learn to make a precise movement close to the ring and gradually move away. When your hand makes a different movement every time you throw, stability is out of the question. Moreover, the further you throw, the stronger each extra movement and deviation affects the result.
First stability, then increasing distance. Try a simple exercise: you start at the ring and make 5 hits, if it took you no more than 7 throws, take a step back. So you move away until you make 3 misses from some point. Made 3 misses - start over.
Watch the video for another exercise.
It also fits the first tip.
Tip 3
Be patient. One workout and 100 throws won't be enough to get big changes and learn something. A throw, and even more so a good and stable one, requires a large amount of high-quality repetitions and fixing the movement.
Make your shooting training not just voluminous, where you make 400 hits, but as high quality as possible. 200 hits in 250 throws is better than 400 hits in 1600 throws.
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Made thrown from behind the arc. Experienced bettors know how to use this. Classic centers like Shaquille O'Neal are a thing of the past. The NBA has finally turned into a league of snipers, the trend for three-pointers has reached European basketball. Today we will talk about how to bet on long-range hits.
What is a three-point shot and when did it appear
A three-point shot is a shot that is made in basketball from behind the three-point line. He brings the team three points, while a field goal from any other point is only two.
Until the 60s of the last century, three-point shots were not provided in professional leagues, all hits from the field were estimated at two points.
In the NBA, a three-point arc appeared in the 1979/1980 season, now it is impossible to imagine a basketball game without it.
Gradually the number of long throws increases. In the modern NBA, the average team attacks from behind the arc about 35 times, and the indicator of the leading clubs has exceeded 43 attempts. The average NBA team makes about 12-13 three-pointers per game. Although ten years ago, the best clubs in the league could not reach the mark of 10 hits from behind the arc!
The reason on the surface is the cost of the throw. Four 3-point hits from ten attempts will bring the team 12 points, and five two-point hits from the same ten shots - only 10. But if teams love three-pointers so much, then this can certainly be used in sports betting?
NBA 3-Point Betting: Pros and Cons
Sure. But you need to take into account the peculiarities of such rates. Betting on three-point shots in basketball is referred to as small markets, that is, unpopular markets for betting.
Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages are quite traditional. Let's start with the cons:
- Small painting. As a rule, the choice in betting on statistics is noticeably lower than when betting on the result, totals, handicaps or intervals;
- Increased margin. The coefficients will be slightly lower than usual, this allows operators to insure themselves against additional losses;
- Small limits. Usually, bookmakers limit the size of the maximum bet; it will not work to hit a big jackpot with one bet on three-pointers;
- Long shot bets are only available on the top leagues. First of all, you can bet on three-pointers in three tournaments - the NBA, the Euroleague and the VTB United League.
There is only one plus here, but it is noticeable. Bookmakers very rarely make mistakes when evaluating the main outcomes, since they have a whole staff of analysts and various experts. But in betting on statistics, missteps occur much more often.
The fact is that the volume of bets on statistics is quite low. The operator does not consider it necessary to closely monitor these markets, preferring to spend the main resources on more popular markets.
Increased margins and limited limits provide bookmakers with insurance against big losses even if line errors become more frequent. This is exactly what sophisticated players use. With proper work with sources, it is much easier to find value bets on three-pointers than on popular betting markets.
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Where to look for statistics on three-point shots, which sites to trust
No problems. The entire amount of necessary data is available on the official websites of the leagues. NBA, Euroleague and VTB United League promptly update statistics. After a short period after the end of the game, its results are processed and appear on the site.
This data is publicly available.
For example, on the NBA website you can find not only regular, but also advanced statistics: offensive efficiency, defensive rating. The Euroleague and the VTB United League can boast of the same.
Statistics section on the official NBA website: https://www.nba.com/stats/
Statistics section on the Euroleague official website: https://www.euroleague.net/main/statistics
The statistical section on the official website of the VTB United League: https://vtb-league.com/ru/teams-statistics/
Note that both personal and individual statistics are available on the websites of all three leagues. That is, with a couple of clicks you can find the number of three-point shots made, the number of hits and the percentage of hits by a club or an individual taken basketball player.
How to choose the type of bet for betting on three-pointers
Even bets on one component have enough types.
In betting on three-pointers, these are:
- Outcomes: who will hit more three-pointers;
- Handicap: who will score more shots from behind the arc, taking into account the handicap;
- Total total of teams: how many three-point hits the opponents will make by joint efforts;
- Individual total of three-pointers by one of the teams;
- Individual total of three-pointers made by one of the players. It is usually offered to bet only on leading basketball players or recognized scorers;
- Odd/even: whether the number of three-point hits will be divided by two without a remainder;
- Double Chance by Number of 3s: Selected team win or tie results in win.
The principles of calculation in each of the types also do not differ from the usual ones. It is important to remember that, as a rule, the total is set not for the total number of attempts, but only for hits.
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Things to consider when betting on long shots in the NBA
Coaches often tell beginner basketball players that the long shot is a dangerous ally.
After all, even recognized snipers have bad days when the ball refuses to go into the ring. With dunks, passes and shots from close range, this happens much less often.
In addition, teams have different attitudes when playing defense. Statistics have long permeated basketball. And she says the least effective shot is the middle-range shot. Since a hit from afar is worth three points, and from close range the ball hits the target more often.
That's why some teams are ready to sacrifice the opponent's open throws from an average distance. If only to not let him throw a three-pointer without resistance. Before making a bet on hits from behind the arc, check the statistics of not only the team (player) you have chosen, but also the opponent.
Several sports statistics websites can be used for this purpose. For example, data is available on teamrankings.com on opponents' shots and hits, as well as on the share of three-pointers in total field goals.
