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USA Basketball - 3 Cues for Better Basketball Shooting

If you're a good basketball shooter, the coach will find a spot for you on the floor, especially at the high school level. Thus, it becomes extremely important to learn the correct basketball shooting technique, and to practice various shooting drills over and over and over again. Larry Bird didn't become one of the greatest shooters of all-time just because he had a pretty shot. He practiced relentlessly too.

It's amazing how many kids don't know how to shoot a basketball correctly. They can't even explain the correct shooting technique, let alone demonstrate it. So we use a couple of cues to correct even the most horrid shooter's shots.

Once again, we use the Wooden approach to improving a basketball player's shot: quick, short cues not long explanations, as well as showing the player how to do it correctly, showing them how they are doing it, and then showing them how to do it correctly one more time.

Here are three cues for better basketball shooting:

Start Small End Tall

We actually stole this one from Ganon Baker. Very few kids actually explode into their shot. They start way too tall and never get their legs involved. They may shoot fine 8-10 feet from the basket in stationary drills, but once we move them to the 3-point line or it comes to the 4th quarter, every shot becomes short. And if it isn't short, it's on a line drive with little hope of going in. Plus, a tall shooter coming off the screen is a slow, poor shooter.

So we use the cue "start small, end tall." Originally, we would use cues like "bend the knees", "push the hips back", "sit back", or "hip hinge." We like "start small, end tall" better because it not only reminds the shooter to explode into their shot by pushing their hips back, but it also reminds them to end in an extended position with a great follow-through. Essentially, it gives us the best bang for our buck in the fewest words possible. We quickly found out that the fewer words we use, the more likely the athletes will remember it.

Snap the Elbow

This is one of the biggest basketball shooting mistakes we see with players: not extending their follow through. They will continually short-arm their shot. That almost always results in a line drive.

Once again, we used to use "snap the wrist", "hand in the rim", "up and out", and "shoot out of the telephone booth." However, we like "snap the elbow" better because it solves multiple problems with one cue. It reminds the athlete to extend the follow through. It also reminds them to shoot up and then out as it's almost impossible to really snap your elbow without extending your arm up first. And it indirectly reminds the athlete to snap their wrist on the follow through because once you snap your elbow, your wrist will automatically snap.

The result: a beautiful arching shot that touches nothing but the net.

Middle to Middle

This is another wrist/elbow problem we see often with basketball shooters. Either the shooter will snap their wrist to the inside/outside of the rim, or they will have their elbow sticking out and not lined up towards the basket. Although the shooter can make adjustments for these and still be a good shooter, he/she will never be a great shooter without thousands of hours of practice to compensate for the error in technique.

We used to use cues like "center of the rim", "back of the room", or "grab the rim", but we like "Middle to the Middle" better. Once again, it attacks two problems with as few words as possible. Players are reminded to take their middle finger to the middle of the rim (where the middle finger goes, the hand will follow), as we as line up the middle of their elbow to the middle of the rim. Thus, their accuracy should be improved tremendously. If they miss shots, they should always be missing long or short, never right or left.

All three of these cues are absolutely useless unless you explain the meanings behind them. You always have to speak the same language as the athlete. What you say may not always be what they hear. Thus, we usually make the athletes repeat it back to us in their own words just to see if they are hearing what we're saying. Plus, it also gives us the opportunity to find a cue that may be a better fit. Once we're both on the same page as far as cues are concerned, shooting drills become a lot more efficient and effective with as a little talking as possible.

USA Basketball - How Michael Jordan's Mindset Made Him a Great Competitor

Michael Jordan is widely considered to be the greatest basketball player of all time. In fact, he's arguably one of the greatest athletes of all time. He was a four-time gold medalist with USA Basketball, including winning two Olympic golds, and was twice named the USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year. For more than a decade, he was the face of the NBA.

And then he made the decision: a career change. How could a man, at the pinnacle of his success, walk away from success? Not only did he walk away, but he did the unthinkable. He risked his athletic prowess by trying to play baseball, a sport he hadn't played since he was a teen, knowing that millions of people would be watching his every swing, his every throw, and his every pop fly.

Was it ego? Was it boredom? No. It was psychological. It was the mindset he had since he was in high school; a mindset that was burned in his soul after being cut from his basketball team.

To understand why he risked everything, let's take a peek into the mindset of Michael Jordan, the competitor:

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

As Carol Dweck, author of Mindset, would say, Jordan is a prime example of the growth mindset. It's the mindset that almost every successful athlete who has had long-term success has. It says genetics may determine the starting line, but hard work determines the finish line.

Failure isn't just accepted; it's expected. When you stretch yourself past your current limits, failure is inevitable. It spawns growth. You only reach the top and stay at the top by continually improving. Winning isn't everything. Growing is.

The Result of Hard Work, Not Genetics

Jordan may have become bored with basketball. He may have craved another challenge. However, he wouldn't have risked everything if he honestly didn't believe hard work conquers all. MJ wasn't dumb. He didn't think just because he was successful at basketball that he'd be successful at baseball. He wasn't so egotistical that he thought he couldn't fail at anything. Not at all. What MJ believed is what every person who has the growth mindset believes: Hard work conquers all.

Coach John Wooden felt the same way. He rarely discussed wins and losses in his pregame speech. Instead he focused on making sure his players were willing to give 100 percent and leave everything on the court.

Coach Wooden stated numerous times that some of his most proud moments were not after winning national championships, but were after losses when his much less talented team gave it their all and still came up short. He knew by focusing on the process, the results would come. Ten national championships later proved his theory.

Mindsets matter. Rarely will a coach discuss psychology. Yet how often do we hear a coach say basketball is as much mental as it is physical? What are we doing to practice the physiological component of basketball? Are we instilling the growth mindset in our players? Or are we just yelling at them, and blaming them for the losses? If you want to breed success, you better start trying to find out its root cause.

Understanding why MJ switched from basketball to baseball is a good start!

Why did he do it? The craziest act in history

Sportbox. ru about why His Air in 1993 ended his basketball career.

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Probably, even those who never met Michael Jordan in person, but only saw him on TV, could say with confidence that this person could not be forced to do what he did not wanted. Michael was always guided by his own principles, dreams, desires, and something shocking had to happen to change this order of values. And it happened. 23 July 1993 years old Daniel Green and Larry Demery shot and killed James Jordan Sr. while he was dozing behind the wheel of a red Lexus his son had given him.

Two days later, the police discovered the stolen car, and on August 3, the disfigured corpse of an elderly man was found in the Bennetsville swamp. But the frail hope of the Jordan family lived on for another ten days. That's how long it took to recognize in the remains of the father of the greatest basketball player in history. The unlucky robbers were caught fairly quickly; at the trial, both sobbed and swore that they only wanted to tie up the old man, accusing each other of using weapons. Both received life sentences. The state in which Michael was was also like a prison cell. He withdrew into himself, answered questions in monosyllables and gave the impression of a person completely isolated from everything that was happening around.

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On October 6, at a press conference, Michael, then a three-time NBA champion and three-time MVP of the season, announced the decision to retire from basketball:

"I don't feel motivated keep playing and the desire to prove something on the basketball court."

Among the large army of journalists, haters, friends and colleagues of Michael, only the owner of the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox, Jerry Reinsdorf, knew the answer to the main question - what's next? Despite his son's success in basketball, James Jordan Sr. always believed and hoped that his son would become an outstanding baseball player. And not unreasonably. At 12, Michael was awarded the title of "Mr. Baseball" of the state of North Carolina. He showed good progress in high school, but at 18 he decided to focus on basketball. At the time when he told Reinsdorf - I want to try myself in baseball, Michael was 31 years old.

Imagine Messi now announcing his transition to curling and Sidney Crosby deciding to take up boxing professionally and you will understand the scale of what happened 24 years ago.

At the February press conference, there were many phrases like "I've decided", "I think", "baseball is the best option for me", which Michael spoke confidently, with a metallic voice. But it was obvious to everyone that, first of all, it was James' desire, and baseball remained the thread that still connected father and son. On March 4, at the Chicago White Sox training camp in Sarasota, Florida, the world saw the new Michael Jordan. I saw and was dumbfounded. One of the most authoritative and accurate sports publications, Sports Illustrated, came out with the headline “Curl Michael! Jordan and the White Sox are a disgrace to baseball. "

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23 years have passed since then, but "His Air" still ignores "Sports Illustrated" and cuts off all contacts of the publication with its inner circle. White Sox youth director Steve Novorita and the rest of the club's coaching staff spoke about Michael's amazing professional ethics, how he came to training earlier than anyone else, carefully listened to the moralizing of the players, even those who were his sons.

The testimonies of hitter coach Walt Reniak make it clear that the best basketball player on the planet took the transition to another sport with the utmost seriousness:

“Michael perfected his bat an hour before training. Then the rest of the guys came and we worked for about three more hours. Then there was a short press conference, after which Michael worked for another 40 minutes. Just try to swing the bat for 15 minutes, your hands will instantly fill with lead. He came to the doctors every day with calluses and blisters. They taped his hands like a boxer before a match and it still didn't help."

Despite Michael's dedication, everything that happened was like some kind of baseball attraction. White Sox manager Gene Lamont: "Michael was supposed to talk to the press every three days, but I had to ask him to do it on a daily basis. It was just not fair to the rest of the guys when they were asked about Michael Jordan at every press conference."

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At the end of March, the White Sox announced that Jordan would start the official baseball season at the Chicago Birmingham Barons farm club. For the second team, this was comparable to launching into space; sold-out stands in the stands, kilometer-long queues for tickets, a modernized bus for away matches, Jordan's autograph sessions for teammates and rival players. There was a lot of Michael's charm and style in all of this, and much less baseball itself. Three months into the season, Jordan nearly snapped.

“It was in Memphis,” says Barons manager Tito Francona, “it was clear that reality was different from his expectations. The parry percentage was not very good, people came to see him not as a baseball player, but as Michael Jordan in new circumstances. It was like some sort of museum show. He came up to me and asked: “Do you think I can do it. Maybe I should quit?“ I said that if he was looking for a new challenge, then he found it. And this is what should please and motivate him. Not a perfect answer, but still."

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Jordan had to wait until midsummer for his first home run. But what a home run it was. July 30, game against the Carolina Madcats, 13,751 fans (stadium record), Michael's mother, wife, brother and sister are in the stands. He knocks Kevin Rychel's serve out of bounds and makes a leisurely lap of honor, raising his head to the sky and pointing his finger at loose clouds.

“I couldn't have dreamed of better,” Jordan confessed after the match, “after all, my first home run came the day before my father's birthday. This blow is my best gift to him. This home run was a tribute to him, it's all for him. I still have strong emotions because I would like him to be here and see this ... but I'm sure he saw it from there too.

Without a doubt, this was the most touching and bright moment of the season for Michael. He finished with 12 hits in 40 outings per bat, slightly improving his batting percentage. The MLB union strike at the end of '94 not only shortened Michael's rookie season, but also affected the postseason. The main lineups of the Barons and White Sox, as well as other league clubs, could not train until the end of negotiations with the league leadership. So after a two-week vacation, Jordan joined the Scottsdale Scorpions for the Fall Prep League.

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“If not for the strike,” recalls Jerry Reinsdorf, “I think he would have stayed for at least another season. We were forced to reorganize the roster and include only young players from farm clubs. It seems to me that he could no longer go for it. Michael always knew his worth."

“I didn’t even think about leaving, I enjoyed baseball,” Michael himself said. - But the protracted strike and all these people who asked me to participate in the discussion of cases about which I had no idea. I tried to hide from all this on the basketball court, and there the forgotten feeling returned to me again.

In March '95, Spike Lee filmed a joke commercial with prominent baseball players who, watching Michael's clumsy actions on the baseball field, unanimously conclude that at least he is trying. The video premiered on The Saturday Night Show, but disappeared from the air six days later. Maybe because it was no longer relevant, or maybe because of lack of time, because the whole broadcast was filled with discussions of the press conference, which consisted of two words: "I'm coming back"!

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