How to Shoot a Basketball

Part of the Video Series Basketball for Beginners

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Shooting, or taking a shot, is one of the most important basketball skills. Learn how to shoot in this basketball fundamentals video, with b-ball tips from a hoops expert.

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How to Shoot a Basketball
An important thing about basketball is how to shoot a shot very very important thing you need to know how to do this, first you have a basketball either your right hand or left hand and I'm right handed so I use my right hand as my shooting hand, my left hand as my guiding hand. What you want to do is have your hands and your fingers spread apart on the ball you left hand guiding the ball so it's looks like you would be guiding your ball towards the basket. So what you want to do is when you lift up you bend up with your legs and you move up with the ball and with this hand you guide it so it doesn't go in any other direction beside the action you going towards and you move the ball up and you hold it with your fingers. With the first 3 fingers that you have to create the shot so it'll look like this that's what we'll look at.

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Expert: Andre Boyer played basketball for the University of California at San Diego. Read More