10 Keys to a Shooting Workout

Rich — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:08:57 +0000

As I stated in my recent post The 6 Keys of Basketball Skill Development I was fortunate enough to attend Kevin Eastman and Brendan Suhr’s Coaching U event when they visited Kean University. Since Kevin Eastman is one of the most well known basketball skill trainers in the world, and this site is devoted to basketball training, I thought it best to relay more information from the clinic. The following is a list of Kevin Eastman’s 10 keys to a shooting workout:

Get shots in the following ways: off quick penetration (catch the ball and go) and shot fake pentration.
Get shots from the player’s operational areas. Know the shots that they get within their system by charting the shots they take at each area in the system.
Get finish at the rim shots. When you get to the rim, you have to have solutions (different types of finishing shots). If you only have one hand, you cut off 50% of your solutions.
Get game shots from game spots at game speed.
Demand perfect form on every shot (that’s one type of shot taken perfectly many times).
Contest the shots the player takes. There are three ways to contest the shot: simple contest (let them shoot with a hand in their face), foul contest (let them shoot then hit them in the arms), and anything goes (hit them anywhere after the release).
Chart shots as much as possible. This allows them to see their score and progress. Whether they shoot well or poorly, if they can see what they did, they will want to come back next time.
Never miss two in a row.
Develop shooting stamina. To do this, you will have to do a certain amount of your workout on the move.
Have hidden workouts. These are workouts that when the coach tells you to go home and rest, the player goes out and shoots some more.

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10 Keys to a Shooting Workout