I need help with basketball?

Question

Okay so I'm in 8th grdae and really want to be a starter next year. What are some ways that I can practice to improve my dribbling and shooting skills oh ya and jumping higher.

Answer 1

get involved in summer basketball this summer and really dedicate yourself, practice makes perfect

Answer 2

to start off go buy you a brand new ball, the best one you can find! Doyou have it. ok, that ball is your new best friend. Dribble every day with both hands knees bent, eyes up. find a local place you can find a pickup game and play every day, also when you are alone practice freethrows and your midrange jumpshot. If you want a consistant jumpshot you need to shoot atleast 300 jumpshots a day. Now on to your verticle... You should buy a $20 pair of ankle weights and do everything with them on, this will improve your overall leg power. Secondly, you should do a half mile of lunges a day. If you dont know, a lunge is when you stand straight up, hands on your hips, and step out, touch your inside knee to the ground, hold, and then bring yourself back to a standing postion, then the same thing with the next foot, continue this in a walking motion, but dont go to fast, You will be jumping out of the gym by the end of the summer, good luck son, and just remember, its the ones who want it, that make it happen. You can do it!

Answer 3

PASSING~ this is very important in basketball. you don't want to be known as a ball hog so just practice on passing with another person, or on a wall.
DRIBBLING~ this is probably the most important thing to practice! if you can dribble good, you will be a very good player. just dribble back and forth, between the legs, behind the back, spin dribble, reverse, fake crossover, wrap around, everything!
SHOOTING~ you are only in 8th grade, so i wouldnt worry about this as much. as you get older you will get stronger and that will help you out.
Hope I helped you out, and good luck. Keep workin at it!

Answer 4

k im in 8 grade and i sit bench for our schools varsity im from a smaller town but the main key is to play during the offseason i ran 3 or 4 times a week to keep in shape and i praticed about an 1 or 2 aday if i could and another thing taht reallly helps is to get involved in lots of sportsif u can im in football and track it all helps even baseball and if it all depends on how bad u want it, i found that out this year when i made varsity

Answer 5

Not to brag - but I'm a excellent basketball player with many years of experience. I love it. Anyways...

Jump Higher:
- stand on the balls of your feet (aka releve if you know ballet) and then just go down to standing normal and then stand up on the balls of your feet again - repeat. 20 sets of 10 makes you jump higher - DIFINITELY helps you improve tremendously on your jumping. Another thing is to take the ball and hold it directly above your head up in the air and go to a wall and jump in the air and tap the ball against the wall as high as you can and land on the balls of your feet and try not to stay on the ground for too long, the time you're on the ground in between jumps should be quick and this is a rapid workout so it's not like jump, tap, land on the balls of your feet, stop then repeat, it's jump, tap, land on the balls of your feet jump, tap ... it goes directly into the next one. Do 5 sets of 10. Stretch, stretch, stretch.

Dribbling:
- just dribble and dribble to there's no tomorrow. Don't forget to also work on your non - dominant hand (your weaker hand) because you need to be able to dribble with both hands if you want to be a successful basketball player. Eventually you'll be able to switch from left to right and vice versa. Remember not to dribble with your hand or your palm, you must and always have to dribble with your finger tips and when you push the ball down let the force of the dribble / push and the ball roll over your fingertips. Different people need to apply different amounts of force so find your personal amount of force that you need to dribble the ball high enough - don't dribble higher than your hip. Practice, practice, practice and get completely comfortable with dribbling because it's an essential of basketball obviously.

Shooting:
-every player needs to discover their "magic" spot on the court.
Find out where you're comfortable shooting at and practice shooting there (even though you should be prepared to shoot from anywhere on the court). Definitely practice your foul shoots, that reallllly helps I can't tell you enough. LAYUPS. layups, layups! Both hands, both sides, left and right. Eventually three pointers are realistic. I can shoot 3 pointers no problem with my eyes closed and it's a cake walk only cuz I started small and consistently practiced shooting from nearby. Shooting is fun so it shouldn't be a bore to practice a lot. If you're not comfortable with your shot being "all net" and directly in the basket, you DEFINITELY should use the backboard. Use the "with the kiss" method and kiss it off of the backboard into the basket. The ABSOLUTE perfect angle if you're shooting from the right side is the upper right hand corner of the square on the backboard, if you're shooting from the left, it's the upper left hand side of the square on the backboard. If you execute this correctly it is by far almost certain the shot will go in. But you have to be at the diagonally facing the basket / backboard for this to work, like where you would be perfectly standing if you were just about to start a layup. Work on your arch, and know how much arch you have to apply when shooting. Also, work on your force, know how much force you need to apply for the ball to reach and go into the basket, find out how much is too little force, find out what too much force is (aka how hard or soft you throw the ball when shooting). The higher you jump, the less arch you need because you would be that much more leveled with the basket, even if by a little. The lower you jump the more arch you need in your shot because when you're closer to the ground, you need to arch it so it goes up and out, then down and out closer to the basket, and into the net. Again, each player has their own individual standards and knows what they individually need to do (Example: a shorter person knows they need to jump higher or arch their shot, a taller person knows that they don't need to jump as high and they don't need to arch as much). It also depends on your situation (Example: if you're closer to the basket, you don't need that much force when shooting and if you're far away, you do need more force). It just depends on who you are and what is happening.

Do all this and you will definitely make the 9th grade team. I'm in 9th grade now and this is what you definitely need to know how to do all this in at least 9th grade. Work on it this year and Good luck!

I wrote all this 100% on my own, I didn't just copy and paste I swear so appreciate my knowledge and teachings and my time. lol.

If you ever have any questions whatsoever on basketball, just email me through Yahoo and I'll gladly answer your questions and tell you how to do things and stuff. Glad to help! - Claire