Follow Through for Basketball Shots

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Ryan Tapp on behalf of Expert Village and this is how to shoot a basketball. This section is aiming and following through. Okay, so now we know how to set-up for a shot with our body, our lower body; consisting of our feet, our ankles, our legs, and hips. Our upper body consisting of our body, our shoulders, our head, our eyes and where that should be. The next part is actually shooting a basketball. We are going to break it down starting with our arms, with our wrists, and getting to the end with our hands and with our finger tips, how everything needs to flow when we shoot a basketball. When shooting a basketball, you want to make sure that your shooting arm is always perpendicular with the ground, it's always straight up and down. Your elbow is always going to be bent so that your arm goes just past a ninety degree angle, maybe even a forty five degree angle with the ball in your hand. So that's your forearm and that is also your arm. You want your back arm or your tricep to be parallel with the ground when you first take the ball. Secondly, is your wrist. You need your wrist to be back so that your hand if possible, the back of your hand is almost parallel with the ground. If you can, get it parallel with the ground then that's the best. Now the arm that is not your shooting hand, for instance, I'm right handed, I shoot with my right hand, my left hand is there merely to support the ball. I'm not going to use my left arm in any way to help get the ball to the basketball hoop. That's all with the catapult motion, the shooting, the cannon motion of my shooting arm, my right arm. The left arm is merely there just to support the ball so that it doesn't roll off and it can stay on those fingertips. Now when releasing the ball, make sure again to bring the ball just slightly above your shoulder or over your head, and when you shoot the ball, you want the ball to roll off your fingertips very last. That'll put backspin on the ball. Backspin is important, because if the ball hits the back of the rim it has a chance to still roll forward and go inside the rim. If it's flat, once it hits the rim it just kind of hits the rim and falls off, so you always want backspin on the ball. "