i was feeling good, usually i am like a 50% 3pt shooter and I was doing a variation of around the world. I started on the left, kept hitting and suddenly I just missed 28 shots in a row? is it a mental thing, or overthinking form when confidence goes down or are spots actually that big of a deal?

In the finishing move i was trying to like show the ball similar to a finger roll then bring it up for a floater.

17M, 6'5 Going into senior year. I noticed that I shoot my mid range shots differently than my 3PT shots. ive gotten very consistent at both (like all state level).

my mid range shots i shoot like larry bird and/or jokic. my 3pt shots are kind of a Klay and Luka combo. I guess the reason I shoot my mid ranges like that is for the higher release point so its harder for defenders to get to. is this ok? or should I just practice one or the other?

This was after a game and a 3 ish hour workout where I got up around 1500 shots so my form is a lot slower than usual. I try to get around 30 total makes in this drill and when I’m on I push for 50+.

Hello,

I play in a German lower division and me and my team got promoted recently and were training hard this summer to prepare for the challenges that come with the step into the next division.

I feel like personally I have developed a lot during this offseason. I have a lot of new moves in my bag and generally do better at scoring against most opponents.

However there is one player on my team (already played higher leaves before; even higher than the one we just got promoted to) and he plays the same position as me. Because of this in most practices he is guarding me and I cannot score against him. Even if I beat him with a move he can recover 90% of the time and I get blocked a lot.

Now to my problem: this is killing my confidence. I notice how I get more and more scared to even try to score because it feels like an impossible task to attack the basket against him.

While I know I should keep trying to eventually figure out a way to score against this type of defender, I am scared to loose my confidence and hurt my decision making ability.

Do you guys have any tips on how to deal with this type of situation?

For my daughter, used on eBay. The set of 4.

Why in 2026 will they only sell this on DVD? How many of us even have a DVD player anymore? I wasnt willing to spend full price new for that very reason, who knows when my DVD player will kick the bucket? Plus I would want to watch it on a tablet or phone at the court, not on the TV in the living room.

Anyways, still excited to get this rolling. But come on guys its 2026.

Feels like very simple advice but I don’t know why I see this so often.

At my practice we have people who cant even go 5/10 from the free-throw line or consistently make wide open threes yet they are skipping practice to travel all the way to Texas or wherever knowing damn well they probably aren’t going to get any playing time.

This used to be me an year go. Eventually I realized it was not worth it I stayed home focused on practicing and now Im actually getting pretty good playing time.

But I still see people on my team doing the same thing.

If your not good enough yet stay where you are and improve. Beat the competition in front of you before you start looking for bigger competition somewhere else.

West Hollywood League Championship game

Guys! You need to learn how to read before you can start thinking about how cool you look with a book.

If you are working on your form, why in the world are you taking threes?!

You need a somewhat stable and replicable midrange (jump)shot to train form so people can really give feedback on your shot mechanics. After having a reliable shot THEN you extend into fakes, jab steps, shooting threes, step backs etc.

So im a junior in highschool ive moved here to usa last week ive started playing basketball almost 2 years ago and i aint the best but i wanna play for a team does anyone know where i can find one where i can actually make the team and i have a chance i also live in new jersey if that helps

What can i improve?

In this video, I taught how to shoot 3's.

https://youtu.be/gR0vQB6bh6k

I'm looking to improve my shot, so looking for any advice. I apologize for the poor angle, next time will be better!

Rate my ingame shooting. I am number 33 wearing a dark with blue accent jersey "Miko"

I also want to extend my range, any tips?

I can only play ball 2x every weekend. Drill suggestions would be appreciated

Specifically, rep range.

For a basketball athlete, what would be more beneficial?

Lifting Heavy weights in the 3 to 6 rep range?

Or

Lighter weights in the 12 to 15 rep range?

I’ve looked up tons of workouts, but very little information is given on how many reps you should be doing.

Hey guys, has anyone here done the personal 1 on 1 in person training with Mike dunn? I know he posts great stuff and I’ve used some of the advice he’s mentioned, but was wondering if anyone has any experience with the in person training.

So First smth bout me. Im 15yo started playing january this year and im 6‘8. I made it on the adult Team now and I got my First Game this sunday. Im playing Center. my Team isn’t in a high league and my Coach said the other Team IS worse than our. (ofc we can still lose).

Even tho ill prob only get 5-10min playing time I wanted to ask: What do you think would make this a good learning experience and also any Tipps in General?

As said above i need to understand game better. I joined local high school basketball club(2nd Serbian league) and when it comes to dribling workouts and condition ones i don't have much of a problem, because i trained alone for 2 a little bit more years all alone and practiced what i thinked is important and basically started learning overtime and acknowledging what i need to work on based off what didnt work when i played with others. Anyways the point of this post is i lack basketball iq because i never had anyone older to teach me basketball. Grandpa is dead, my father(legend in these city i train in) also sadly dead and i dont have brothers and friends that play. So when it comes to playing alone:triple threat,shooting,shooting form, layups of various kinds, dribling, post moves and all that i have no problem because that's the things i saw are important and all prople online were talking u need to work on them if u are a young hooper. But not about things like 3 man weave, some form of w 3 on 0 rotations and stuff like that i did today on training, long story short i was terrible at those two literally half of a practice i couldn't do it a single time properly and that lead to no one wanting to pass me ball, coach yelling at me, a one guy that hated me since i joined told me i was retatded and started screaming why i have to play in a team with him, and at the end when practice was over no one wanted to talk to me and even give me high five when leaving. So i fucked it up big time, and if i dont figure out things till tomorrow evening(next practice) people will just hate me more, not trust me even more, coach will definitely bench me more(i probably wont play games more than a minute) and season is starting in 3/4 week of Septembar. So please if anyone readed all this pls help me and explain me a little bit stuff like this and how to generally know what to do and how to move without ball. I would appreciate all help.

Thanks in advance🙏

Hello friends! I last played basketball in 2017 and now that I’m soon to be a first time dad, I wanted to be able to eventually teach my kid how to play like my dad did before me. So, I figured I may as well get back into it now.

I am certainly rusty and VERY slow now lol, but overall I was fascinated by my muscle memory kicking in to still be able to dribble and shoot to a certain degree.

I would love to hear your suggestions on your favourite drills for shooting/dribbling (feel free to suggest any YouTube channels as well I should check out)!

Don’t think this clip is useful enough (or the right angle) to provide a lot of critique on my form, but would happy to take feedback there too. I think one improvement I can already make would be maybe not to bring the ball up from the left. I’m clearly very slow in my shot here, but I think I just need a bit more practice to bring that up to speed.

At 34 years old, I am already feeling very sore in my legs after just one practice lmao. Back in my high school playing days, I mostly attacked to the basket. I think I’m too slow and fragile for that now, so I’d like to get better at shooting.

Thanks all!

Hi everyone,

This is Chaimae, I'm a 26 years old Moroccan basketball player, i have played in 3 teams in the national 2nd division and played in college and won the bronze medal in the university league, i recently had a tryout with a good team in the national excellence division and i had a good feedback to which i was told to co tonue attending future trainings and all...

My dream is to become a professional overseas athlete, i wanna know if any of you share my passion and same dream and if they got there or they're working on it also, i thought i build my image as an aspiring basketball player to connect with the global basketball community of players, coaches and teams overall yet i mostly receive hate and insulting comments.

I wanna know if anyone is going through the same things I'm goin through and are also working hard to get there, if you have any advice for me on how to get there or any contact of teams and coaches in the semi-pro leagues and even lower I don't mind at all in fact i rather start from the bottom and grow.

Anything you might think shall help me in my journey please don't hesitate to share it 🏀❤️

#ballislife