Drills You Can Do At Home

Floor Shots
All great shooters practice with plenty of repetition. You can practice your shot laying bed or on the floor.

• Lie flat on your back
• Slightly bend your legs
• Set your hands in a shooting position and shoot the ball directly upward to the ceiling
• Follow through, catch the ball, and repeat

Ball Circles
You don’t have the dribble the ball to improve your ball handling skills. Strengthen your hand-eye coordination.

• Stand with your feet about shoulder-width
• Swing the ball around your torso from front to back
• Work in 60 second intervals and switch direction
• Work circling the ball around other areas of the body: head, knees, and ankles

Finger Tips
Building up strength in your fingers will help with your ball handling, passing, and catching.

• You can do this while standing, sitting, or lying down.
• Hold ball in front of you with your finger tips, tap ball back and forth between your hands as quickly as possible
• More advanced players can move arms around in different locations while moving ball back and forth.
• Set goals of how long you can tap ball back and forth without making a turnover

Ball Slaps
Ball slaps are another drill that you can perform to increase finger strength.

• Hold basketball in one hand then pound it in your opposite hand.
• The receiving hand should squeeze the ball upon impact
• Repeat process for 60 second intervals