If I am putting backspin on the ball and arcing the
ball upwards as I shoot, the difference between starting the shot
with the ball in the palm of my hand, and starting the shot with the
ball on my fingers/fingerpads, and starting the shot with the ball
on my fingertips, is limited. The difference is that when I
start the shot with the palm of the ball in my hand, some of the force
of the shot comes from body movement that occurs while the palm of the hand is
on the ball, some while the palm is off the ball and the fingerpads/fingers are
on the ball, and some while only the fingertips are on the ball; if I start
the shot with the fingers and fingerpads on the ball, some of the force of the
shot comes from body movement that occurs while the fingerpads and fingertips
are both in contact with the ball, and some while only the fingertips are in
contact with the ball; and if I start the shot with only the fingertips on the
ball, all of the force of the shot comes from body movements made while the
fingertips alone are in contact with the ball. In every case the fingertips
are the last part of the body to touch the ball.
I see a pattern here. Looks like a false idea that
the fingertips alone should be used in a shot has become widespread,
because the discussions re the subject have ignored the question of at
WHEN the fingertips should be on the ball, the reality being that the
fingertips should be the last part of the body in contact with the ball when it
is shot. Likewise, it appears that a false idea that the palm of the
hand MUST NEVER be on the ball at any time during the shot has become
widely accepted, because the discussions of the subject have ignored the
question of WHEN it is acceptable or unacceptable to have the palm of the hand
on the ball during the shot process.
This kind of confusion can lead to: an unneccessary
obsession with what parts of the hand are touching the ball during an early
phase of a shot, whereas the intended focus is on which parts of the hand
are touching the ball when the ball is released; and misunderstandings wherein
those who are not shooting the ball with the palm of their hand, but rather are
resting the ball in the palm during an early phase of the shot,
are persecuted as deviants.
Exaggerating the true level of difference between
various shooting methods can lead to excessively critical attitudes that ignore
that individuals naturally differ and that there are as many acceptable ways of
shooting as there are excellent shooters
A lot of people will tell you to have your shoulders
exactly square to the basket. We believe the basketball shooting hand side of your body should be turned slightly with your
shoulder forward toward the basket and the non-shooting shoulder angled
slightly back. Your head will be angled just a bit toward your shooting arm.
Now, hold the ball close to your chest and just below
your chin. Your shooting hand should be
positioned a little under the ball and and a little more toward the back.
Non-shooting hand should be cupped,
slightly under the ball and a little more toward the front.
You want your fingers and thumb well spread with the
space between the forefinger and middle finger lined up with the middle of your
face. The ball should touch your entire hand except for your
palm.
Your hand, forearm, elbow,
knee and foot should be in a
straight line. Don't let your elbows stick out at your side. This will change
the ball's rotation and might make it curve (there goes your basketball shooting accuracy!). Keep
the elbow pointed at the basket and closer to the basket than your wrist. This
prevents you from "pushing" the ball at the hoop.
Keep your head up and directly above the midpoint
between your feet. Your weight should
still be slightly forward on the balls of your feet, knees bent slightly,
hips relaxed. Focus on the front of the rim before, during, and after your shot.
Don't look away to watch the ball in flight (a key basketball shooting fundamental).
As you begin the shot, your weight should roll up
onto the toes of your forward foot. Be sure you're
releasing upward and toward the basket and not reaching forward as you release.
It's OK to to leave your feet a bit as your back
foot gives you a
quick, upward push. Throw your head up and through and then land just ahead of
the position from where you began the shot.
As the ball leaves your hand, the fingers and
thumbs on each hand should be well
spread with the palms almost facing one another. Snap your wrist to release the
ball off your fingers and achieve the correct back spin necessary for a soft
shot
In your follow through, the forefinger should be the
last finger to touch the ball. This action will turn your palm out a bit as the
ball is released. Visualize putting your hand into the basket
as you follow through. This will help you get complete elbow extension and wrist
flexion during the follow through.
Get these fundamentals down and when it comes to
basketball shooting, you'll have one
heck of a set shot going!
2) Jump Shot
Set-Up, Ball
Placement, Elbow and Head Placement
Very much like the Set Shot. Follow the same
instructions for set up and ball placement. You'll also release the ball much
the same. Be sure your hand, forearm, elbow,
knee and foot are in a straight
line. Keep your elbows in just like with the set shot.
Also, just like you learned above with the set shot,
keep your head up and directly above the midpoint between your feet. Your weight should
still be slightly forward on the balls of your feet, knees bent slightly,
hips relaxed. Focus on the front of the rim before, during, and after your shot.
Don't look away to watch the ball in flight (a key basketball shooting fundamental).
You want to jump quickly and push off the leg
opposite your shooting hand. For power,
protection and balance, bring the knee of the shooting side leg up
quickly. Your move should be up and toward the hoop (not out and toward the
hoop) and you should land only a bit in front of the spot you launched from.
One of the keys to this shot is your quickness, not
trying to out jump the defender. Your defender won't have enough time to react
if you're off your feet and shooting in one quick
motion.
In your follow through, the forefinger should be the
last finger to touch the ball. This action will turn your palm out a bit as the
ball is released. Visualize putting your hand into the basket
as you follow through. This will help you get complete elbow extension and wrist
flexion during the follow through.
Keep your head and forefinger pointed at the basket
and land with good balance. You'll achieve good balance by keeping your feet spread and you'll be
able to make your next move smoothly (in the unlikely scenerio that you miss the
shot, you want to get that rebound for you next basketball shooting opportunity,
right?).
In your follow through, the forefinger should be the
last finger to touch the ball. This action will turn your palm out a bit as the
ball is released. Visualize putting your hand into the basket
as you follow through. This will help you get complete elbow extension and wrist
flexion during the follow through.
Keep your head and forefinger pointed at the basket
and land with good balance. You'll achieve good balance by keeping your feet spread and you'll be
able to make your next move smoothly (in the unlikely scenerio that you miss the
shot, you want to get that rebound for you next basketball shooting opportunity,
right?).
-- http://www.basketball-plays-and-tips.com/basketball-shooting.html
Use your fingertips, not palms, to
hold and release the ball.
The position of the shooting hand's thumb is
important. The shooting thumb should be
pointing upward at about a 45 degree angle left (right-handed
shooter).
and then you release the ball with a snap of the
wrist, with the ball rolling off your fingertips. This will
imparts backspin ("rotation") that all good shooters have.
-- http://www.coachesclipboard.net/Shooting.html
The fingers of the basketball shooting hand should be
spread almost to maximum. To discover whether the spread is adequate,
check the amount of daylight that can be seen between the ball and the shooting thumb and index
finger. If more than one-half inch of daylight is showing, the shooter is
placing the ball on a pedestal formed by his thumb and fingers. (At the same
time, no part of the palm of the basketball shooting hand should be
touching the ball except the pads nearest the fingers and the fingertips, of
course.)
The ball should rest on the pads of the
fingers, thumb, and callused parts of the
palm of the shooting hand. Good basketball shooters don’t
necessarily hold the ball in their fingertips, but they
use their fingertips in guiding the
shot. If the ball rests in the shooter’s palm, fingertip control will
be reduced accordingly.
-- http://www.powerbasketball.com/080418.html
Free Throw Shooting
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Follow these tips to learn the
freethrow:...Grip the ball with just your fingertips. Your
palms should not touch the ball.
Hand Position on the Ball
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One of the problems with young
players being told to shoot with their fingertips is
that they hold the ball on their fingertips.
In order to control the ball, it has to rest on all of the pads on
the shooting hand
except the large pad under the little finger. Then, when shooting, the
ball should come off the fingertips as
it leaves the shooter´s hand.
The key to dribbling and
shooting is in
the fingertips
Many people use their palms to dribble and lose both control and
access to their wrist power. When you shoot with your palm, you lose
access to all your wrist power. The Naypalm is designed to teach you
to use only your fingers and strengthen your fingers and wrists. The
specially designed button has bristles that alert you when your palm
is close to the ball. The Naypalm also helps you improve dribbling
with your weaker hand by strengthening your fingers and helping you
learn how to dribble the right way.
Additionally, if you have
problem with your shot and use your palm, you can use the Naypalm to
learn to keep your palm off the ball.
You control the ball with
the fingertips.
Keep the ball off the palms of the hand." -
Michael Jordan
This article covers the subject of the
hand on the ball in depth with diagrams.
Finger-Tip Grip for Shooting
Hand
Incorrect. By just touching the shooting pads on the ends of the
fingers a player gets less power and in turn less distance. A player
also has less control when using less pads and in turn poorer
accuracy when shooting from the outside.
Some shooting authorities have advocated
gripping the basketball
with just the shooting pads at the end of the fingers. The
finger-tip grip is illustrated in picture 1. and is not recommended.
It is incorrect and limits a player on what he can do with his or
her outside shooting.
Tests show that more than just the
finger-tips must touch the ball during
proper gripping. As the ball is
released, it comes off the finger pads at the ends of the fingers
which is correct. But, as it is held, the basketball
should be gripped with more shooting pads than just the finger-tip
pads.
Any grip which controls the basketball
successfully touches at least the finger pads and part of the pads
below the fingers. If a player tries the finger-tip method, he or
she will find that the farther toward the end of the fingers he or
she holds the ball the less
power they will generate with the fingers to propel the ball to the
basket.
Palm of
the Shooting Hand.
Shooting authorities do agree that the palm of
the hand should
not be used. But what is meant by the palm is
seldom explained. Illustration 2 shows the palm.
There are some grip gadgets on the market
which keep the palm off
the basketball.
The main problem is that some of the gadgets also keep the player`s
shooting pads below his fingers off the ball. Most of
these devices teach a player an incorrect gripping
procedure.
all a player has to do to keep the palm of
the shooting hand off the
ball is to
spread the fingers and thumb properly.
The information that Coach Baumgartner
has provided is based on observing and working individually with
over 48,000 players on their shootng. He found that most of the good
and very good shooters did not use the finger-tip grip. The ones
that did had very limited range.
Picture 3. Correct and Most Used
Grip
Most Used Grip. With this
grip the player touches the finger pads and the pads below the
fingers. The upper thumb pad is used but not the lower thumb pad or
the side pad. This grip is also good to use around the basket area.
With this grip a player can adjust the ball in his or
her fingers easily.
Picture 4. Correct and Second Most Used
Grip
Second Most Used Grip. This
grip is similar to the grip illustrated in picture one except with
this grip the player also touches the deep thumb pad. Players using
this grip vary in the amount of pressure that is applied with the
deep thumb pad.
Picture 5. Correct and Third Most Used
Grip
Third Most Used Grip. This
grip could be called the all pad grip. Of the three correct grips
this would be the most controversial. After working with thousands
and thousands of player`s shots, I have found that some very good
outside shooters use this grip. Players using this grip usually like
it because they feel they get better range when touching all of the
shooting pads. This is not a good grip for around the basket. It is
harder to make adjustments with the hands when all the pads are on
the ball.
-- http://www.breakoutbasketball.com/tipoftheweek_06182007.html
re dribbling, contradiction of what
jordan allegedly said:
First, let me say a few words about hand
position. Just as with shooting the ball, when
dribbling your hand needs to
cupped to a slightly sharper arc as the surface of the ball. This
will bring your finger pads (NOT your fingertips
– which are the ends of your fingers) into contact with the ball first.
You do NOT want your finger tips or the palm of
you hand in
contact with the ball. Fine
control is only possible with the fingerpads. Try dribbling
with just your palms to see what I mean.
-- http://en.allexperts.com/q/Women-s-Basketball-3082/weak-hand-better.htm
1.) Dribble with your
fingertips
only Basketball is
a game that should be played with the ball on your
fingertips.
Whether you are shooting, passing, or dribbling, the ball should be
on your fingertips
only, and should never touch the palm of
your hand. Think
about it: if you go to pick something up, you don't put it between
the palms of your hands. You grab it with your fingers. Same thing
goes for basketball.
-- http://www.basketballsuccess.com/basketball_ball_handling_drills.html
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Ball Handling Tips to Remember”
1) Always stay low when you are
dribbling. The lower you are the more contact you will be able to
absorb from the defender.
2) Always control the ball with your
palm and
fingers.
3) Be sure to dribble hard and under
control.
-- http://www.basketball-drills-and-coaching-tips.com/basketball-dribbling.html
Don't let the ball touch your
palm. hold
the ball with your
fingertips
Use the pads of your fingers and hold the
ball in the
center with your writing hand only.
Make sure you can see light through all of your fingers. Next, place
your other hand on the
side of the ball. Then
shoot
Make sure (when dribbling) that
you use your fingertips
and the upper part of your palm to
push the ball down into
the floor. Take care not to 'slap' the ball with the
palm of
your hand, and do
not push down too hard. |
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First of all, you have to make sure that you
are holding the ball properly at the
start of your shot. The key is to grip the ball with your fingers
spread and the ball must not rest on
the palm of your
hand.
The ball should be resting
on your fingers and the pads of your hand at the bottom
of your fingers.
Use your finger tips to
dribble, never the palm
USING THE FINGERS -
The best dribblers never let the ball touch the palm of their
hand. The
ball is best
controlled with the fingers. The top half of the fingers should
touch the ball---not the palm and not the
finger tips. The ball becomes an
extenson of the dribbler and this is done by the "feel' the dribbler has
of the ball.
Players (when dribbling) should work on
controlling the ball with their finger
pads, and not the palm of their
hands.
@2008 David Virgil
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