How To Shoot A Basketball
Just FYI, because I have nothing better to do. Today is my day off.
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To shoot a basketball righthanded you use your right hand as the "guide hand" and your left as the "top hand." I don't care what nomenclature coaches teach their pupils. This is the way it works: Get your top hand out of the way of your guide hand when you shoot and you'll be a good shooter. Like I am (I am a good shooter until the game starts).
I think it confuses young players to tell them to GUIDE the ball with their left hand. Actually, the left/top hand needs to get OUT OF THE WAY of the ball as you release. It doesn't guide anything, it needs to disappear off the top of the ball at the moment the shot is released. Telling kids to guide with their left is wrong and sends a confusing mental picture. Book it.
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David Robinson was a player who made a decent percentage of his jump shots and foul shots but who had terrible form since his left or top hand was in the way of the release of the ball. Chris Mullin may have had the most perfect jump shot ever because his top hand, which for him as a lefty was his right, slid off the top of the ball and got out of the way of his guide or shooting hand. Don't emulate Robinson in shooting the ball. It can only hurt the ballclub.
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To shoot a basketball righthanded you use your right hand as the "guide hand" and your left as the "top hand." I don't care what nomenclature coaches teach their pupils. This is the way it works: Get your top hand out of the way of your guide hand when you shoot and you'll be a good shooter. Like I am (I am a good shooter until the game starts).
I think it confuses young players to tell them to GUIDE the ball with their left hand. Actually, the left/top hand needs to get OUT OF THE WAY of the ball as you release. It doesn't guide anything, it needs to disappear off the top of the ball at the moment the shot is released. Telling kids to guide with their left is wrong and sends a confusing mental picture. Book it.
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David Robinson was a player who made a decent percentage of his jump shots and foul shots but who had terrible form since his left or top hand was in the way of the release of the ball. Chris Mullin may have had the most perfect jump shot ever because his top hand, which for him as a lefty was his right, slid off the top of the ball and got out of the way of his guide or shooting hand. Don't emulate Robinson in shooting the ball. It can only hurt the ballclub.
posted by joe sweeney at 4:22 PM
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