WARNING: Dumb Basketball Shooting Drills YOU Are Doing | Basketball Shooting Tips

What's good? I'm Coach Collin Castellawish at Mechanics of Basketball and today I'm going to show you some dumb shooting drills that you're probably doing. Alright, now I'm going to help you get these trash drills out of your workouts, but what I need you to do is watch to the end of the video because I'm going to give you a free copy of my custom shot design system. The system I specifically put together to help you optimize your perfect jumper in 15 minutes or less. So watch the end of this video because it's brought to you by my guys over at SIQ, the number one tech basketball out there. Alright, so the first dumb drill that you're probably doing is one handed form shooting. Now right now, I can predict it, there's some angry coaches that are heading to the comment section down below and they're like, screw this guy, he doesn't know anything about shooting, XYZ. Now here's my thought process. Is it the worst drill on the planet? Probably not, right? Does it actually help you work on your follow through? Most likely, right? So there's maybe some times where you could use it. The problem is, it's the go-to that we see athletes use over and over and over again. I'm all about maximizing your time, doing the drills in your time that are going to get the best results. And for most athletes, one handed form shooting just ain't it. So here's the deal. Anytime we're doing one handed form shooting, if we were going to do it right, it would probably be good. And to do it right, we would need to have flow with the basketball and the hips together. Meaning I'm starting with my hand down low and then I'm flowing smooth up through the shot. That's not bad one handed form shooting. But at that point, I would rather probably just have you do two handed form shooting. What we see players do instead is they solidify bad habits by setting the ball on the shelf. Or teeing it up as I like to call it. Meaning as they're doing their one handed form shooting, they load their hips. They put the ball up here by their shoulder because this is the natural way to hold it. And then they fire their hips and then fire the snap off of their release. But here's the problem. One of the biggest mistakes, especially young players make, is they set the ball on the shelf. If you look at most elite shooters, they load it down by their chest or down by their hips because it maximizes their momentum through their body and the basketball. So question, do you have so much power extra on your jumper that you can just eliminate 50% of it? Probably not. So stop doing one handed form shooting because it doesn't really give you that muscle memory to put into your game. So instead do the exact same thing, but do two handed form shooting where you're starting with the ball low. You're still isolating those mechanics, working on snapping it up through. I promise you it'll be less of a waste of time and it'll be more game realistic. The next dumb drill is elbow to elbow 15 foot shooting. We see it all the time. Player spins the ball themselves or gets a pass from their parent or a coach or a friend or whatever. And they get a shot at the elbow, they let it go. Then they run to the other elbow and they get it back and forth and they go back and forth. Now, here's the deal. I've done this in workouts before with players. I've done it growing up. I've done it a bunch of different times. Is it the worst drill on the planet? Probably not, but it's not super game realistic, right? If you're going to do something like that a little bit, just get warmed up, get your blood loose. That's fine. But I see way too many players doing it over and over again, spending 10, 15, 20 minutes of a workout just shooting these kind of like catch and shoot 50 footers. But here's the question. How often do you get to shoot a catch and shoot 15 footer in a game? Not very often, right? Maybe if you're a high post and you get it in here and you get like a kick from a guard or something, then you might have a catch and shoot 15 footer. But for most of us, we don't even shoot that shot. So don't waste your time, energy, and effort. If you want to do it for like a little bit just to get warm, that's fine. But here's what you want to do. Anytime you're shooting mid-range, you want to work on the shots you're actually going to get. So a few ones that you might want to work on might be a pump fake one dribble pull up. That's a shot you're actually going to get working both directions. You might want to work on a two dribble pull back, shooting off separation. That's a shot you're actually going to get, right? So instead of just working, you know, elbow to elbow, back and forth, why not do the exact same drill but catch the ball, pull back, and shoot? Catch the ball, pull back, and shoot. Now you're actually working on the movements and the foot patterns that are giving you shots in game, and you're doing the same thing. Maximize your time, energy, and effort, and I promise you, you'll get better. All right, the next one isn't necessarily a drill, but it's the way I see a lot of athletes work out. This is casual shooting. A lot of times I'll walk into the YMCA, I'll have a training session, or maybe I'm playing at like noon ball or whatever. But I see athletes shooting around and working out, but they're so casual about it, it's not actually translating into the game. So I'll see a player, you know, spin the ball to themselves, maybe they'll put down a dribble, they'll get a J up, you know, they'll kind of jog and get it, jog back out, come back out to the three-point line, and maybe they'll be like, oh, like one little soft dribble down and pull. Casual does not translate to a game. You've got to go hard, you've got to make it intense, and really work on those game-specific movements, right? So if I'm shooting, and I'm just doing like a shoot-around where I'm saying, hey, I'm going to catch two threes, I'm spinning the ball to myself, I'm loading, I'm going right into it. As soon as I chase the ball down, I'm going to spin it back out, get another quick one, boom, get my feet set, shoot. If I can do that, I'm going to be so much more efficient with my time, and that's actually going to translate to a game. Because that's what we want to do, is we want to simulate game actions during our training so it actually works, right? If you have a test in, let's say, math, you don't study your science book to get ready for it, right? You want to make sure you're doing the stuff to actually get better. 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