What can I do to get my shot off faster?

Question

I'm a girl who loves to play and practices a good amount. I have a good shot, but I take to long to release it. I'm great at free throws because you get the time but I need help on a quick release during a game situation. Anyone got any advice or tips??

Answer 1

Keep practicing your shooting movement. Make yourself so used to doing it that you don't think about it anymore.

Answer 2

A player may shoot one way with his jump shots and a different way with his free throws, they play with these areas: quickness, trajectory and height of the shots and the shooting arm and hand in the Follow through:
QUICKNESS: I feel the better shooters shoot early in the body motion, using the whole body to shoot with. This results in a "quick Release," and it means they're shooting on the way up. A "medium quick Release" means they waited a bit in the jumping (or free throw) motion to shoot, thus losing some of the powerful, upward force of the lower body. A "delayed Release" means they waited until the top of the jump (or leg thrust for a free throw) to shoot. Shaq O'Neal is a classic example of the latter. He bends his knees, straightens them, and then shoots.
TRAJECTORY: Poorer shooters, as I see it, flip the ball with the wrist and hand and/or throw the ball with the arm, using little or no legs/lower body. This gives them a flat trajectory and a small target. The better shooters' shots have a more "upward" trajectory, giving higher arch and a chance for gravity to slow the shots down and give them a softer landing.
SHOOTING ARM AND HAND: Watch the Follow Through to see what's happening with the shooting arm and hand. The better shooters extend their arms upward in line with the basket and hold them out there during the Follow Through with little movement, if any. Lesser shooters' arms pull back or jerk to the side. You can tell they're unsure of their Release. And the wrists and hands of the better shooters are relaxed. They're so relaxed, the hands will even bounce sometimes. The poorer shooters hands are tight, or move in strange ways. Watch to see if the hand "snaps," meaning the motion is quick and to the end of the arm with a relaxed wrist.

Remember the great shooters have flawless technique, and that gives them consistency and they rarely have a bad day; if the technique is flawless and you can make shots over and over, your mental interference will be minimal.

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Answer 3

There are many things you can do to improve your basketball shot. When you know you are going to get the ball and have a shot opprotunity you can set your feet up before you get the ball and then shoot. Then you can practice a quicker release in the gym before or after practice. Another thing you can do is work on shooting off screens. You need to set your right foot or left foot down depending on what side of the screen you go off of and bring the other foot through, your shot will be alot faster. You can work on all these things by yourself at anytime by just tossing the basketball with the right spin.

Answer 4

I suggest you look to tone your forearm to develop your strength in it. More muscle means more quickness. The next step to improve your release time would be to lessen the movement in your jump shot. Alot of time, people waste so much time and movement to "get into there shot." If I were you, I'd look to take a few hundred jump shots in a gym. I'd rebound the ball and quickly take a conventional jump shot from whereever I get that rebound. If you do it long enough, I think you'll slowly eliminate those unneccessary movements. After all, the more movements, the more likely that one of them is slightly off resulting in your shot being off. Just remember to get both feet planted and keep your body square to the basket.

Answer 5

Take a ball and shoot up against a wall at a spot about two feet over your head from about two feet away (from the wall). Do this as fast as you can over and over again. Barely let the ball come to a rest on your hands. Eventually you may do this 100x per minute. This will help speed up one portion of your shot--that in which the ball comes to rest on your hands before you make your upward motion. It's a drill we use to take a few tenths of a second off our players' shots.

What age/level do you play? What's your experience? I may have more depending.

Answer 6

You need to develop more strength. The reason you take so long to get rid of the ball is that you have to build power from your feet up. If you strengthen your wrists especially, you will be able to shoot the ball from above your head without having to build power from the ground up.

Also, strengthening your legs will allow you to develop a quick-release jump shot (almost indefensible).

Good luck

Answer 7

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Answer 8

1. Get stronger and raise your release point.

2. Be ready to shoot as soon as you catch the ball. Catch the ball in a shooting stance.

Answer 9

You may need to practice at run and gun