What are some shooting drills I can do to increase my 3pt percentage?

Answer 1

You have to keep shooting at least 100 shots per day...then it will become systematic, concentrate on form and release.

Answer 2

I would play "Around the World" and shoot from every spot around the 3-point line, like they do in the 3-point contest at the All-Star Game. I hear that what's good to do if you're in a funk is go to the free throw line, make some, and then go start shooting again at the 3-point line.
If you're not much of an outside shooter, maybe start shooting long 2-point shots until you develop some range. I can't even do this, but make sure you flick your wrist so the ball rotates enough and you're not just chunking the ball up like I do - it's in the wrist, not the arms or chest. And make sure you jump of the ground! Always jump straight up and down. Keep your elbows in. Envision yourself making the shot each time.

Answer 3

Strenghten those leg muscles up for jumping abilities behind the line, also practice shooting at about 21 ft. and not at 19. this will give you a lot of practice where the other tems boys usually wont thinkyou will shot from.
If you can improve you shooting percentages from 21 ft, t be as good or even better than currently, you will have a lot of future ahead of you.
Also when someone comes out to guard you tight at 3 pijnt line, how is your move to drive deep for a lay up and leaving the other guys in their shoes?

Answer 4

5 spot shooting from behind the 3pt line, mark four spots behind the 3pt line n u have to make 10 shots from that spot b4 you move to the next one, and have somebody pass you the ball back to back none stop about ten times from different spots on the floor

Answer 5

BEEF

B-bend knees and elbows
E-eys looking throughthe window and into your target
E-extend your arm as strait as you can (try to get your elbow near your ear)
F-follow trough. reach strait up on your tippy toes like getting a cookie out of the cookie jar on top of the refrigerator.

this is more for free throws but i couldnt thin of another way to describe it

Answer 6

Just dunk from the 3 point line.

Answer 7

try taking some 3point shots maybe?

Answer 8

Practice, practice, practice...

As far as another poster who recommended BEEF, I agree with some of the suggestions but ignore the comment on the elbow location as no matter how your natural stroke is, your elbow will end up near your ear so whether YOU STICK YOU ELBOW CLOSE TO YOUR BODY OR STICK YOUR ELBOW OUT WHEN YOU BEGIN YOUR SHOT, THEN STICK WITH WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE. ALSO, NEVER BEND YOUR KNEES UNLESS YOU WANT TO TIP EVERYONE ON THE OTHER TEAM THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SHOOT AS YOU SPEND ABOUT A SECOND BENDING YOUR KNEES PARTICULARLY IF YOU ARE CLOSELY GUARDED WHICH WILL ALLOW THE DEFENDER WILL BE ABLE TO TIME YOUR JUMP. THE FEWER MOVING PARTS IN A SHOT THE BETTER.

I have several basic beliefs in shooting.

First, develop a free throw shot (meaning how you release the ball) that is the same as your outside jumper.
Second, as the key to a good shot is "practice, practice, practice" what I did in my playing days was practice free throws (and, I mean really take what you are doing seriously, and, don't get lazy as you need to stay focused shooting free throws for so long) which I did seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.
Third, the reason why you practice your free throws for so long daily is that your timing on your wrist release and your backspin on the ball will become second nature, and, you will eventually get to the point where the ball almost becomes a part of your body meaning that you will not have to think about what you are doing as if you think out on the court, particularly in the middle of a shot, then you have already lost it when your brain starts to think in the middle of your shooting motion and your free throw percentage will go down and your outside jump shot percentage, if you are thinking or worrying about your shooting form or worrying about what the coach is thinking as you are shooting or worrying about whether you should be taking an outside jumper or worrying about whether the shot will go in or not, then, your outside shooting percentage if you do all of this thinking while you are shooting will drop to about 15%.
Fourth, You want everything that you do with the basketball to become second nature with no thinking while being focused, yet, your mind goes blank, and you kind of become a "zombie" as you are doing two straight hours of free throw shooting.
Fifth, while you are practicing your free throws initially if you adopt this "practice, practice, practice" work ethic, then, you will be thinking initially, but, you should only think about your form of your shot with a good wrist release as the ball rolls off of the tip of your fingers with the ball having good back spin as your wrist ends up in, what would you call it, as your wrist continues to carry threw after the release ending up with your arm and wrist in a kind of a "swan" look or whatever type of bird you want to call it as you make sure that your wrist continues to move forward and down in a good wrist release. If you release the ball and immediately bring your wrist back to normal position, then, you probably are not getting a good wrist release meaning the ball will not have proper backspin and a good arch.
Sixth, so if you have to think during your practice season, or, if your brain becomes active at the free throw line, then only allow your brain to think about your shooting form.
Seventh, if you maintain proper shooting form while only focusing on your form if your brain does become active once you reach the point of where the ball and your shot are second nature, then, never worry about whether you are going to make the shot as your chances of making a shot are very, very good if you only concentrate on your form while not worrying about anything else including your coach or whether the shot is going to go in or not. Worrying about whether your shot will go in will not help once the ball is in mid air.
Eighth, as I believe in the fewer moving parts, the better in your free throw shot, NEVER BEND YOUR KNEES WHILE SHOOTING A FREE THROW. As you shoot your free throw as your arm, wrist, and ball all rise up, I think of it as my arm kind of being an elevator, then with the balls of your feet in coordination with your arm, rising up, or whatever you want to call it, with the foot motion as you end up basically on the balls of your feet and your tip toes as the ball releases from your hands, then, you will be getting your power for shooting your free throw from your legs without bending your knees.
Ninth, Why do I say NEVER BEND YOUR KNEES ON A FREE THROW? Multiple reasons. As previously stated, the fewer moving parts on anything whether it be your shot or on something mechanical, like a car engine, then, the fewer things that can go wrong, and the fewer things that you need to concentrate on to make something go right. Also, if you have to bend down on a jump shot to get a jumper off, then, the defense will be on you very quickly as you are telegraphing the fact that you are about to shoot a jumper and you will be eating ball if you have an outside jumper where you bend your knees. REMEMBER THAT YOU WANT YOUR FREE THROW SHOT BE TO THE EXACT FORM AND WRIST RELEASE AS YOUR OUTSIDE JUMPER. Yeah, no one will block your shot at the free throw line if you bend your knees while shooting, but a good jump shot with a good quick release will never involve bending of the knees if you are being guarded closely as this will make your shot much easier to block as you are tipping of the defender well in advance that you are about to shoot a jumper.
Tenth, then this would mean doing away with other stuff at the free throw line like taking a deep breathe before shooting as many are taught to shoot free throws by taking a deep breathe before shooting a free throw. Remember our purposes here is to develope an exact copy of your shooting arm movement and wrist release which will be exactly the same as your outside jumper.
Eleventh, to me, there is no exact or proper form in a shooting motion. Unlike golf where the "golf book" teaches that there is only one proper way to do everything, I tend to believe, find a shot (arm and wrist movement and motion which are best for you to get off a good shot with proper backspin). If you are shooting knucklers or floaters, then, this means that you are not getting proper backspin; therefore you are not getting a good release of the ball. As far as proper shooting form, most are taught to pull there elbow in underneath their hand when shooting, but in my playing days, I could not get the type of backspin I wanted doing that, so, my elbow stuck out to the side, actually, way out to the side which is nothing that you would ever see in a basketball fundamentals shooting book. If you go back and look at some old NBA games on cable TV, if you ever see four time NBA scoring champion George Gervin shoot (over 26,500 points in his career), his elbow stuck out way to the side too.
Twelfth, REMEMBER THERE IS NO PROPER SHOOTING FORM AS TO WHERE YOUR ARM OR ELBOW IS IN RELATION TO THE BALL.
Thirteenth, REMEMBER THAT THERE IS A PROPER FORM OF GETTING A GOOD WRIST RELEASE letting the ball just roll off of your fingers with your wrist always following through after the shot to get that "swan look" or "duck bill" look with your arm and wrist after releasing the ball which means a proper follow through, and with practice, proper backspin on the ball.
Fourteenth, because of the time of when basketball practice started, I only practiced my free throw for about 30 to 60 minutes a day because for some strange reason, I could not get good directional control on the ball upon releasing the ball. So, for a year before I got into the 2 hour free throw practice routine, I had at the most only 1 hour to practice my free throws. Some days I would hit 0% of my practice free throws, some days I would hit 33% of my practice free throws, some days I would hit 50% of my practice free throws, other days I would hit 60% or 65% or 75% of my practice free throws. Then, on that very rare day with good form and good wrist release, I would hit 99% of my free throws, but during that year of trying to develop my free throw as a teen, my shot would be all over the place. At times, it was very discouraging, and I wanted to dump my attempt at duplicating my same shot as my outside jumper for a push free throw which guided the ball which on very rare occasions I could make 200 or 300 in a row. That was a real mind game trying to stay away from guiding my free throw in that time period where I was trying to perfect my shot and stick to the same form as my outside jumper. I mean I would never take an outside jumper with a push motion where I had more control over the ball. It is kind of like a football quarterback or a baseball pitcher who tries to guide the ball with his throwing motion as trying to guide the ball doesn't work. A good throw of a football or a baseball or a good basketball shot is a release WHERE THE BALL IS NOT BEING GUIDED.
Fifteenth, To me, while practicing free throws AND A GOOD WRIST RELEASE OF THE BASKETBALL IS ALL A MENTAL GAME, as a good release on a basketball is letting the ball slip off the tip of your fingers unguided. A good uncontrolled release of the basketball with proper backspin felt to me like jumping off a cliff knowing that no harm would be done to me. At least that was the way my mind worked as I practiced for a proper "not over controlled" release of the basketball letting it just roll off of my finger tips as it always felt like I was jumping off of a cliff as I wanted to control and guide the basketball rather than getting a natural release of the basketball off of the tips of my finger tips. JUST NEVER GET DISCOURAGED BY THOSE MANY OFF DAYS AND MANY MISSED SHOTS. THE FOLLOWING IS A STRANGE THOUGHT TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND, AND IT WAS FOR ME. I KNEW THAT IF I WAS NOT MISSING A LOT OF SHOTS DURING PRACTICE BEFORE FINALLY DEVELOPING A GOOD SHOT, THEN, I KNEW THAT I WAS GUIDING THE BALL UNNATURALLY. I FELT THAT IN PRACTICING MY SHOTS THAT SHOTS HAVE TO BE MISSED AS THE REASON FOR PRACTICE IS TO ADJUST THE SHOOTING MOTION TO PERFECT IT. SO, NEVER GIVE UP OR GET DISCOURAGED AS MANY SHOTS WILL BE MISSED SHOT AFTER SHOT AS YOU TRY TO PERFECT THE "PERFECT SHOT".
Sixteenth, while practicing to make this shot my proper shot with a proper "not over controlled" release of the basketball, my free throw always reminded me from start to finish in the beginning movement of my shooting arm until after the release of the basketball that my arm movement on a free throw reminded my shooting arm of reaching up toward the sky as if it were an elevator and as my shooting arm reached its maximum height in that motion, I had a good wrist snap of the ball with a good wrist release giving the ball good backspin where the ball rolled off the tip of my fingers without being overcontrolled. So, to me my free throw shot felt like an elavator with the upward movement of my shooting arm with a good wrist snap at the top of that movement letting the ball roll off the top of my fingers while, if I was thinking about it which cannot be totally avoided in game situations, it felt like my wrist release by not "over controlling" the basketball was like jumping off of a cliff while telling myself that this unnatural feeling of trying not to over control the basketball, what I describe as jumping off of a cliff, was a totally safe shooting motion meaning that this feeling of jumping off a cliff, although very unnatural, was completely safe. It took hundreds and hundreds of hours just to overcome this unnatural feeling of trying to "over control" the basketball upon releasing it with a good wrist snap.
Seventeenth, if done properly, this type of shot becomes a very effortless and a very powerful shot as while my shooting arm is rising up to the sky like an elevator, my entire body is moving slightly upward as I would get my power out of my legs (very key in any shot particularly a 3 pt shot) by rising up on my tip toes and balls of my feet. Getting the upward body movement on a free throw (which will carry over to a good jump shot motion) coordinated with the arm movement and the wrist snap which will be very powerful and well coordinated if practiced, practiced, practiced.
Eighteenth, when taking a shot if your brain cannot go into a blank zombie like state, then JUST CONCENTRATE ON PROPER SHOOTING FORM MOTION AND NEVER EVEN THINK WHETHER THE SHOT IS GOING TO GO IN THE BASKET OR NOT EVEN AFTER THE BALL IS RELEASED. JUST THINK ABOUT PROPER SHOOTING FORM, PROPER SHOOTING FORM, AND PROPER SHOOTING FORM.

Nineteenth, practice your free throw by yourself. NEVER HAVE ANYONE THROW THE BALL BACK TO YOU AFTER EVERY SHOT as my philosophy is that to get in good running shape that upon every missed shot, I ran down my own missed shot to increase my running endourance, and, also as punishment for missing a shot in attempting to get myself to perfect my arm motion and wrist release that much quicker. EVEN MORE IMPORTANT HOWEVER FOR NOT ALLOWING ANYONE THROW YOU FREE THROWS BACK TO YOU LIKE THE PROS OR COLLEGE PLAYERS, is that when I practiced my free throws that with the proper backspin on a free throw and with much practice hitting nothing but net, what was even more important to me was to make sure that the ball had proper backspin on my free throw shots while practicing them as the ball should roll back to the free throw line after much practice. In fact, I would adjust my shot depending upon how the ball rolled back because of the backspin toward the general area of the free throw line. Countless times, although rare and only when I was really on, during my many thousands of hours of practicing my free throws, I could go about 10 minutes with the ball bouncing right back to me because of the backspin. That was my reward for making a perfect free throw as I did not have to run after the ball.

So, in summary, how I judged and adjusted my free throw shooting, once I got it down, I would, first, make sure that the ball hit nothing but net, second, observe how the net danced after making the practice free throw, and, third, observe how the ball rolled back to the general vicinity of the free throw line.

Also, I must state as I was trying to create a uniform shot from the free throw line as I would have used for a 2 point shot or a 3 point shot, in all of my practicing of my free throws, I probably never made more than 150 free throws in a row. I am sure you have heard of guys who try to make 400 or 500 free throws and successfully do so. My intention is not to make 400 or 500 free throws in a row, or perfection, but my goal is to develop a fairly strong and powerful wrist release which I would use for 2 pointers and 3 pointers; although, I must say that when I was on which after several years, or within 6 weeks of coming back from a 3 month summer layoff the times I had summer jobs in college, I would be able to hit about 99% of my free throws. I think the reason that I never made more than 150 free throws in a row in my thousands of hours of practicing my free throws was because during practice, I was not trying to make every shot as practice is to make adjustment, and, also, probably because I developed a fairly powerful wrist release after several years of practicing free throws which gave me the added range for 3 pointers. Again, practice and practice free throw shooting is done to fine tune the shot and make adjustments, it is not to make sure that every shot goes in. I feel that anyone capable of making 400 to 500 free throws in a row, and I am sure that there are a number in the U.S., the mentality behind these free throws does not carry over to game situations or a uniform shot that is the same for free throws, 2 pointers, and 3 pointers.

EXTREME EXAMPLE OF EVERYTHING MENTIONED ABOVE: I went to work one day several years after graduating from college as the owner of the company, my boss, I unfortunately found out was a heavy gambler, and he, my boss, knew that I was still a "gym rat" going to the gym every day after work. My boss knew the GM of the local pro basketball team (the GM is no longer in the state that I know of) and rigged the free throw contest at half time to win $1,000 if the free throw contest winner made a shot from half court. My boss told me that I was going to be involved in a free throw contest several weeks into the future, but at the time, I had not been practicing my free throw as it was difficult to get into the local college gym where I went after work because of the college students intermurals. Well, I got busy working on my free throw for at least several hours a day as I had the pressure knowing that my boss was going to be betting big money, the amount I won't mention, on me to win the free throw contest. I had a moral issue with my boss' gambling which effected the company's finances and found a new job several months later; however, I had bills to pay and could not just quit or get fired over a moral issue. I show up at the basketball game and found out that the current Playboy Playmate of the Month at the time as a gimmick to get men to attend the game was to to have dinner with the winner of the free throw contest after the game. All I could think of was what my parents would think of if I won the free throw contest as my parents definitely do not approve of Playboy. So, at half time, the then current Playmate of the Month was handing the basketball to each free throw contestant and standing a foot away from each free throw shooter. Then, about 1,000 men stood around the edge of the basketball court to get a better look at the Playmate of the Month as each free throw shooter shot during the free throw contest. Then, there were many newspaper and media cameramen crowding the free throw line during the free throw contest. It was not your typical atmosphere for shooting free throws. I JUST CONCENTRATED ON MY SHOOTING FORM AS I WAS RELEASING MY FIRST FREE THROW SHOT. I just thought about getting the proper elevator action as my shooting arm went up into the sky and snapped off a good wrist release at the top of my arm motion getting good backspin on the ball. I had no idea what I was doing, but I stayed focused ONLY about my shooting form and wrist snap to get proper . As my first free throw rolled off of the tip of my fingers unguided as by this time having been a "gym rat" for years, I had spent several thousand hours shooting free throws so I had long ago overcome that jumping off the cliff feeling; however, as I let that first free throw go "without trying to guide the ball", as I had never shot a shot with so much pressure knowing that my boss was betting big money on me, having a Playboy Playmate standing one foot from me, thinking about what my parents would think if they ever found out because of their disapproval of Playboy which many or most parents would for their children (even if the father read Playboy, it is only naturally for a parent not to want their children to do what they do), and all of the media and crowd frenzy crowding around the free throw lane, but I crowded all of those thoughts out during my shooting motion and just concentrated on the elevator motion of my shooting arm with a good wrist snap at the top of my shooting motion to get a good backspin. Fortunately, I was able to block out all of the distractions ONLY because of my thousands of hours of practice over the previous nine years going back into my mid teen years. When that first free throw rolled off of the tip of my fingers with perfect shooting motion while I did not allow my brain to worry about whether the ball was going in the basket, and I did not allow my brain to try to will the ball into the basket. I JUST STAYED IN MY SHOOTING ZONE AND ONLY CONCENTRATED ON MY SHOOTING MOTION AND PROPER WRIST RELEASE. Once the ball left my hand, obviously with all of the distractions and commotions, my brain returned back to reality almost immediately after all I am human and cannot totally "zone out" for something so unnatural as what I was going through. I thought that the ball as it rolled off the tip of my fingers "not being overcontrolled" was either going to fly five feet over the top of the backboard or fall five feet short as I had no idea where the ball was going to land. WHEN I AM IN MY SHOOTING MOTION AND RELEASING THE BASKETBALL, I NEVER, EVER THINK ABOUT WHETHER THE BALL IS GOING IN THE BASKET OR WHETHER THE BALL IS GOING TO MISS. I JUST STAY IN MY SHOOTING ZONE OF PROPER ARM MOVEMENT AND PROPER WRIST RELEASE. With hours and hours and hours of practice, maybe even after a year of frustration, which is particularly bad because a basketball season is going to be played in that year where I will be on the team while I am experimenting with a shot that is still far from perfection. Very frustrating. Back to my first shot in the free throw contest having no idea where it was going to land as I was obviously out of my "shooting zone in my brain" almost immediately after the ball rolled off of my finger tips, it was by far the most perfect free throw I have ever shot as that basketball net really danced as I have never seen a basketball net dance like that before. I was in total shock as I knew that the ball shot under so much pressure wouldn't even come near the basket. I continued shooting free throws staying in my SHOOTING ZONE CONCENTRATING ON MY UPWARD ARM MOVEMENT AND MY WRIST RELEASE ONLY NEVER THINKING ABOUT WHETHER THE BALL WAS GOING IN THE BASKET OR NOT GOING IN THE BASKET as I shot each subsequent free throw. Again with each shot because of such a strange environment and all of the commotion, I immediately came out of my "shooting zone". Fortunately, because of thousands of hours of practice in shooting free throws, each free throw in that free throw contest went in as I never experienced that initial shot sensation of thinking the ball was going to miss the basket by a number of feet. Although, all of my subsequent free throws were made and all of them hit nothing but net, only that first free throw, the one I thought was going to miss the basket by five feet either too long or too short, was "THE ABSOLUTELY MOST PERFECT FREE THROW I HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED IN MY LIFE".

THE MORAL OF THIS STORY: As long as you stay in your shooting zone when you take a shot, normally you will not have to even think about proper arm motion and wrist release because of hours and hours of practice; however, there is going to be that unusual situation which a shooting has never faced whether it is a LeBron shooting a 3 pointer at the buzzer being down 3 points in a NBA Finals Game as we are all human where one of the reasons to shoot free throws so many times daily is to get in that "zombie zone" of not thinking while shooting, or, if the situation is so unusual because of many hours of practice the brain should be used to thinking only about proper arm motion and properly wrist release without ever worrying about whether the ball will go in or not as I can guarantee you on an uncontested shot that the ball will be going in if you practice enough over a period of several years. So, developing and improving on a free throw shot, an outside jumper, or on a 3 point attempt, all starts with at least several hours of free throw shooting practice daily to perfect the arm motion and wrist release to where it becomes second nature.

Obviously, my one and only free throw contest, as I will never enter another one again, was not a natural environment where second nature kicks in. Well, second nature might have kicked in on the second shot and subsequent shots, but I really had to "zone out" into my shooting form zone on that first shot because of all of the pressure.

NOW, You might be asking what does a free throw have to do with a three point shot? Because you are practicing your shooting form and your same release which you will be using with your three point shot, and, no matter how young you are and how good of shape you are in, you will wear yourself out trying to spend two hours shooting 3 point jump shots. Therefore, you perfect your shot that you will use for your free throw, on your 2 point jumpers, and on your 3 point shots to where you have the same arm movement and release.

During the time I was spending 2 hours a day practicing my free throws which would carry over to all of my other shots, I was also building up my leg muscles with each free throw as I would lift the back of my heals off the ground with each shot to get the extra strength to get the ball to travel the 15 feet or whatever it is to the basket from the free throw line.

I would then spend about another 1 1/2 hours on fundamentals such as dribbling which is very important if you want to get free to take a good shot, layups, and running jump shots from various distances from the basket stopping on a dime for a pull up 2 point shot.

Sometimes because of gym availability or my own time constraints, I would have to reduce on very rare occasion from 2 hours to 1 hour of free throw shooting followed by my standard 1 1/2 hours of practicing my fundamentals like dribbling, layups, and various 2 point running jump shots and stationary 2 point jump shots.

If you practice so much, then the whole court becomes your world and you know eactly where the out of bounds line is and where the 3 point line is (NEVER LOOK DOWN TO SEE WHERE THE THREE POINT LINE BEFORE SHOOTING AS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD COME NATURAL - WHEN PRACTICING JUST SHOOT WHAT YOU THINK IS A 3 POINT SHOT WITHOUT LOOKING DOWN AS THIS IS A DISTRACTION WHICH WILL GET YOU OUT OF YOUR "SHOOTING ZONE" - REMEMBER, YOU WANT EVERYTHING TO BE SECOND NATURE, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE OUT THERE THINKING ON THE COURT AS THIS WILL SLOW YOU DOWN AND TAKE YOU OUT OF YOUR "SHOOTING ZONE" MENTALITY).

What all of the 2 point field goal shooting drills will do for you, both moving jump shots and stationary jump shots, is that they will build up your leg muscle strength on your jumpers.

Again, you don't want to be bending your knees say like on a stationary jump shot of any kind as bending your knees goes away from the concept of establishing the simplest shot with the least moving parts and also allows a defender time to get over and block your shots, 2 pointers or 3 pointers, down your throat.

I never consciously made an effort to back up on my stationary jumper back to the three point line.

After about 1 1/2 years of working on my own alone on my 3 1/2 hour daily workout routine, I naturally built up my leg strength to where it was easy for me to take 3 point jump shots as my legs are the strongest part of my body unlike my upper body strength which does not begin to match my upper body strength.

I don't believe in weight lifting particularly for an outside jump shooter as weights particularly if you lift them before you shoot, will really miss up your shot.

I do believe in natural things which can be part of the daily loosening up exercises such as push ups, pull ups, sit ups, etc..., but I feel that it is better to spend 30 extra minutes on the court than 30 minutes in the weight room practicing your shot as this will build up exactly the leg muscles you need to build up to take a 3 point jumper.

Don't shoot a 3 pointer like the Spurs Brent Barry who shoots a set shot as this means that this breaks away from having one uniform shot, plus it also means that the Spurs Brent Barry who shot 45% from the 3 point line in the 2006-2007 NBA regular season, cannot shoot a 3 pointer unless he is totally opened.

To answer your question about shooting drills to increase your 3 pt percentage, practice, practice, practice... your free throws and your 2 point jump shots and stationary shots, and as you build up your leg strength, your range will increase out to the 3 point line.

If I had to give you a short paragraph on how to increase your 3 point shot, I would emphasize practicing free throws and I would practice longer range 2 point shots, both running jump shots and stationary jump shots. The reason for practicing longer range 2 point shots is to build up your leg strength and to increase your ability to make longer range shots. Then, gradually move your running jump shots and your stationary jump shots a little further back until you naturally hit the 3 point line. Of course, don't miss the corners as far as practicing 3 pointers.

I don't know your age, but I recall Steve Kerr circa the late 1980s as a senior in college had the weirdest three point shot. Apparently as a 21 year old senior, Kerr had yet to develop his leg strength to shoot from 19' 9", and, Kerr shooting 3 pointers while in college only had his shoes behind the 3 point line while he was leaning over the 3 point line where his entire body was above 2 point territory. It was so weird to see him shoot a 19' 9", or whatever it is, leaning so heavily toward the basket. The much more mature Steve Kerr years later while winning NBA rings could easily shoot a regular jump shot even a foot or two behind the NBA 3 point line as over a long period of time, Kerr must have built his leg strength.

I believe in building leg strength by both jump shooting on the court, and running up and down a wooden court or on a grass football field.

I could maybe run a book, but I will allow you to pick and choose either all or none of what I have written.

At least develop your own workout routines. Become your own coach. And, practice, practice, practice.

A natural free throw shot puts absolutely no pressure on either the elbow or the wrist as all of the power comes from raising your body (without bending your knees) on your tiptoes which gives your shot power from your legs and also from the wrist snap which can be developed to really be powerful.

Obviously, I would not suggest that you go from no time practicing individually to what I did in practicing by myself for 3 1/2 hours.