D1 Coaches Share Their Best Shooting Drills

Uh, I think the most important thing about shooting drills is design them with the exact as close as possible to what you're trying to get out of whatever you're doing offensively.

You know, for us it was, you know, all run to the corner shots, catch and shoot sh- I mean, I would say 80% of our, our, our three point shots were just catch and shoot.

So we did that out of everything we could.

Um, kick out offensive rebounds, dribble pitches, um, just catch and shoots.

Uh, so my favorite shooting drill is the one that replicates whatever it is you're doing offensively, the action into...

Like one of the reasons I thought we were always such a good three point shooting team is our three point shots were better than yours.

They were textbook shooting drill step into three point unguarded shots.

It's the best one.

It wasn't curling off a stagger.

It wasn't coming off a pin down.

It wasn't coming through the elevator screen.

Like those are totally different three point shots.

So what is it you're running? Like now with Synergy, it's so great.

Like just watch all your three point shots and go, "Okay, we get this one this much.

We should be practicing this more." And that's, that's what I tell our guys.

Whenever I'm watching film with them, individual film with them, they'll take a shot and I go, "You like that shot for you?" "Yeah, yeah." Um, "You wanna shoot that shot in the game again?" "Yeah, yeah." "How many times you practice it last week?" They just look at you like, "I've never seen you practice that shot."

Yeah.

Right? So, so that's what it...

That's what, you know, I...

Our, our, our deal was 300, 100.

That was what we called shooting.

It was the kind of the price of admission into practice.

You had to get 300 game shots and 100 free throws a day, 365 days a year.

If you missed a day, it was okay, just shoot 600, 200 the next day.

Hmm.