Competitive Motion Shooting Drills by Jordan Graneto

Written by Coach Peterman

I have coached at the NCAA Division 2 (Southwestern Oklahoma State University), NAIA (USAO), and JUCO Levels (Blinn College and Carl Albert State College) as well as high school. I just felt that fellow coaches especially young coaches need to constantly work on their “game”. Just like the basketball players that we coach. We as coaches need to improve ourselves. That is my story and why I do this blog.

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August 10, 2012

Coach Graneto presents a set of competitive motion shooting drills that can help basketball players improve their shooting:

After coaching and playing in thousands of games throughout my career I have to come to realize that if you have players that can shoot, you have a chance at winning games that you shouldn’t. One of the hardest things that I am realizing as I further my coaching career is how to get “game like” shots up during a course of a practice. Using competitive shooting drills during practice can help develop your players as shooters throughout the course of a season. This is increasingly hard considering everything that needs to be covered throughout a season, but it is something that is vitally important for the success and continued growth of a basketball team. These are the standards that I set for competitive motion shooting drills:

The drills must be competitive:

Players need to be pushing each other to be the best they can be. The best way that I have seen to do this is to make drills competitive. The first player to make ten shots wins, the loser has to do a down and back, or pushups, etc. This will force your players to give that extra focus and “game like” concentration during drills.

The drills must make players work on shots they will actually take in games:

In our program we set a lot of down screens, so in our shooting drills we work on our kids running off of a lot of down screens. In our program we also have a set we like to run a lot where a guard comes off a flare screen from the top (flare screen shooting). It doesn’t make sense for your players to work on running off fade screens if you never get that action in games.

The drills must force players to shoot while they are tired:

During the duration of a game players are going to be tired. They need to practice shooting tired, so in games they have experience shooting while they are tired.

In down screen shooting, flare screen shooting, and hi lo shooting, you just need one hoop and you can play until the first player makes ten shots, then switch to flares, pop ups, curls, one dribble pulls, etc.

In two man one ball, or three man two ball, it helps if you have several baskets for your players to go to. I have found it helpful for players to switch baskets after every move or every time someone makes ten.