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  • Hey I'm Coach Collin Castellaw with Shot Mechanics Basketball and today you're going to learn

  • how to shoot the ball just like Stephen Curry

  • Alright so the first thing we are going to talk about is Stephen Curry's feet when he shoots the ball.

  • now your feet are really important because they are kind of the base or foundation of your

  • jump shot and that's where everything starts on the way up through

  • So the first thing i wanna talk about is the turn now a lot of coaches will tell you

  • that you need to square up to the basket when you shoot the ball meaning that all

  • 10 toes are going to face the rim. The problem with this is it adds a ton of tension to your shoulders.

  • So when you go to release the ball above your head it makes it really difficult and that smooth one motion

  • release that guys like Steph Curry have so what I think yes you do and what

  • Steph Curry does his you tilt your feet just slightly off to the side if you're

  • looking to three point line here you can tell my right foot is closer to my left

  • foot and just having the flight killed in yours your feet back as soon as you

  • bring the ball up here shooting hit album shoulder and all are aligned to

  • the basket that's gonna help me shoot the ball straighter and eliminate a lot

  • left to right missus I've seen players that have been square shooter their tire

  • life and increase their shooting percentage maybe ten to twelve percent

  • just by turning their feet immediately so it's something that's really really

  • important and something that you probably want to track so taking jump

  • shots see what you got going on and then kind of assets you know you wanna make

  • sure you're not turn too far or too little

  • you know some people like a small turn some people like a bigger turn but where

  • you want to be careful of is that you're not turning too much I've seen players

  • kind of start getting carried away and it's 90 degrees and that makes it pretty

  • hard to get all that power momentum into the Basketball as well so generally want

  • to turn your feet somewhere between like it there was a clock on the ground

  • somewhere between like 11 and 10 30 somewhere in there but his players

  • thought that different to think about turning your fetus or just like seven

  • and can help unlock all that power your shoulders to make it a lot easier she

  • with range inconsistency parts of the next thing you want to think about on

  • your footwork much like Stephon curry is having your heels up at all times when

  • you're getting ready to shoot the basketball a major mistake that a lot of

  • players make his when they catch the ball

  • going into it is it a plant their heels in the ground as they're stepping into

  • it now the issue with this is as you place your heels it sucks all your

  • energy momentum into the ground it makes it that much harder to regather it slows

  • you down a time you lose the latter range and you lose a lot of quickness

  • till one thing you can do is you can make sure that you're always on the

  • balls of your feet and heels like the ground just like this you can tell him

  • on the balls of my feet my heels can act as a natural springboard and allow my

  • ankles knees and hips to all work together to get that quick pop into the

  • jump shot the ball makes it all the way to the basket really easy really

  • smoothly so a great way to think about it is like a diving board I would like

  • to think about it like that if you're trying to jump off the diving board you

  • don't run player heels into it and try to bring off you stay on your toes right

  • and jump shots pretty much the same thing as you're catching the ball you're

  • getting ready to go into your shock spring off the toes a very little

  • contact time with the ground and using all three of those joined together get

  • the spring a jump shot so try to plan your toes if you keep your heels off the

  • ground can help you out of time by selecting it's really important that

  • curry shot is that he has a one motion jumper and basically that just means

  • that he's getting ready to shoot the ball goes up in a one motion manner and

  • never pauses are never hitches so prob not a lot of players happens when they

  • get ready to shoot they bring the ball up and it breaks the plane of their

  • foreheads you can pretend like you draw a straight line up on your forehead if

  • the ball breaks that plane that means it's going backwards and that has to

  • come forward making it into motion shot at the issue at this is many times that

  • makes it so it has a poor are on the shop so if you bring it back it kind of

  • turned into more of a catapult work comes forward for guys like Steph Curry

  • keep it all smooth in one motion going up that way he get that optimal arc so

  • mathematically gonna hit more shots so really kind of the way that I like to

  • tell if you have a motion to motion is just by the plane your forehead there so

  • when I would do that film yourself shooting check it out and see if at any

  • point during shot if the ball comes behind that planning your forehead if it

  • breaks that plane to motion shot it's probably limiting your range in limiting

  • your shooting percentage as well so try to make sure it's one motion you know

  • one thing to think about what the one motion is

  • you know a lot of younger kids especially try to shoot the ball from

  • the chest right here and it's good and smooth the one motion and then as they

  • get older they try to move by the forehead and that's where they need that

  • extra power and it comes up to just make sure that when you're doing your one

  • motion if you're trying to move your set point up I like to think about putting

  • my I burned my finger on my eyebrows right here in my finger up on my eyebrow

  • it's just a front of my forehead

  • that's moved one motion all the way to the basket at the next let's talk about

  • that curry shot line

  • challenge basically just the path of the ball takes away from the catch all the

  • way through the release now what a lot of players do is the kind of they start

  • their shot line wherever they catch the ball at the top of the steps really good

  • at it he keeps a shot line super consistent by always bringing the ball

  • to a shot line instead of adjusting the shot line where catch the ball so I mean

  • by that is this so let their past comes in at out here it's high into the right

  • his shot lines always right up the right side of his body through the brown to

  • the basket so instead of catching and bringing his right hand over and pulling

  • the ball with his right hand going to do a shot is that it doesn't he takes his

  • left hand on the catch the ball over into a shot line and then goes up with

  • it from there that way this is always saying the exact same and really the

  • only kind of changing variables just getting the ball so he's really really

  • great to bring the ball over to his right hand to having his right hand go

  • and get it to think about it . he's really good at hitting that left

  • left-handed drivel hesitation pull up and the reason why is because a lot of

  • guys that you there left a dribble they bring their right hand over to catch the

  • ball like this and they try to go up and everything's out of alignment but

  • instead if you watch him when he shoots the ball over with his left into his

  • right hand that way everything's all perfectly aligned to the basket to

  • always think about instead of having your comment him come get the ball on a

  • bad pass try to bring the ball to dominate and his authority set and ready

  • to go now make a jumper faster and smoother

  • get much more consistent

  • touched on it a little bit before but had the perfect eyebrows that point a

  • lot of great shoot like this like guys like him you know something like

  • Thompson Damian Lillard and basically just the idea that you bring the ball up

  • the time it starts moving toward the basket on your relief is right when your

  • fingers get your eyebrows right about here if you look at that story when he

  • brings the ball up the ball right up on the top of his forehead right here and

  • then begins his release up toward the basket now this is great because a lot

  • of young players like I mentioned before like to shoot from down here on their

  • chest and this works when they're younger but the older yet listed this

  • makes a huge difference having the defender be able to get a hand on the

  • ball

  • blocked the ball so what you want to do you want to begin to bring it up to make

  • sure that it doesn't go any higher than your fingers right on your eyebrows

  • right here because if you do if you start bringing it up your elbows gonna

  • go toward the basket of Internet to motion shot we talked about earlier so

  • really I always like to think that my pointer finger toward it right on my

  • forehead and i wanna bring the ball up two and then forward on my release

  • certain yet that can help us are gonna help a ton for smooth this will be able

  • to get more shots because I talk about their careers will lead efforts what we

  • call a middle finger shooter

  • the last year the touch the ball and it finishes down towards the ground now

  • there's a couple of keys to think about when you're when you're shooting with

  • your middle finger number one you want your middle fingers directly in the

  • center of the ball if on that release if you're off to the side

  • gonna cause everything to be out of alignment you're probably gonna miss to

  • the left to the right so it really imperative that I release you make sure

  • the Americans in the center of the ball that way everything fly straight down

  • the next thing you can do to get the middle for her release is what I call a

  • poem rotation and it's something that a lot of middle finger shooters do because

  • to get your fingers in the center of the ball it's kinda hard on your risk to get

  • a lot of attention back there so polymer taken with the idea that as you bring

  • the ball up your shooting him gonna stand outside of the ball and as you

  • bring it up to your set point you're going to rotate around behind so if you

  • bring the ball up rotated around the back and then follow through with your

  • palm down

  • a lot of coaches will take that as a bad because there's extra motion but really

  • it's pretty repeatable and it's pretty simple to do and it's something that a

  • lot of shooters guys like Steph Curry and myself do when you're shooting a

  • basketball so again

  • basketball and you want to use that poem rotation to rotate the ball around it

  • comes up your set point and then snap your if the follow-through about step

  • guide him now a lot of coaches will tell you that your release as the boss comes

  • up you want to try him facing straight toward the ceiling and this works for

  • some players before some players it works better

  • you pointed toward your target a little bit so got like Steph Curry and James

  • Harden they're really good when they had this guide him come up they keep it on

  • the ball enough time and then had to come down to get a rotate the guide him

  • forward to their fingers are facing towards the basket and there's some

  • straight up in the air now where the future be a little bit of an issue is if

  • Paul starts rotating because you're pushing with your thumb and so it's

  • pointing down so this is no you don't want both palms facing towards the

  • ground but if you can bring the ball up and then flex your risk forward toward

  • the basket is gonna help guide the ball longer its gonna keep it straighter

  • a lot of athletes do they have the issue of bringing up their god is great and

  • then it gets really tense right here with the risk and so they just drop it

  • off too early and a lot of a lot of you know missus can come in that last little

  • bit earlier least so you can keep that got him straight with it and then

  • flopped over just like your risk it gonna help you out quite a bit to stable

  • that ball for the last crucial seconds of flight that's another issue that a