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I watched the local high school play-offs this season and was appalled by the poor shooting. In four championship games featuring college-bound players, the best offense was “chuck and chase:” throw the ball at the rim and fight for the offensive rebound and put-back opportunities. The big arenas and the over-reliance on the three-point shot contributed to the poor shooting, but it resulted primarily from players’ hand positioning on the ball and their failure to prepare to shoot before receiving the pass.

The main areas that most coaches concentrate on are the shoulders and elbow when correcting a player’s poor basketball shooting techniques. But the problem in most of these cases tends to be that the hand positioning negatively impacts the player’s shot, regardless of the shoulder or elbow. The first thing to do is make sure the player correctly positions his shooting hand on the ball; in order to do this, players should have their shooting hand centered directly under the ball when they shoot. Now when you shoot, the index and middle fingers should be the last two fingers to leave the ball; that’s why it makes sense to have these two fingers centered.  Read more...