How to Shoot like Stephen Curry: Shooting Form Blueprint - YouTube

Hey I'm Coach Collin Castellaw with Shot Mechanics Basketball and today you're going to learn

how to shoot the ball just like Stephen Curry

Alright so the first thing we are going to talk about is Stephen Curry's feet when he shoots the ball.

now your feet are really important because they are kind of the base or foundation of your

jump shot and that's where everything starts on the way up through

So the first thing i wanna talk about is the turn now a lot of coaches will tell you

that you need to square up to the basket when you shoot the ball meaning that all

10 toes are going to face the rim. The problem with this is it adds a ton of tension to your shoulders.

So when you go to release the ball above your head it makes it really difficult and that smooth one motion

release that guys like Steph Curry have so what I think yes you do and what

Steph Curry does his you tilt your feet just slightly off to the side if you're

looking to three point line here you can tell my right foot is closer to my left

foot and just having the flight killed in yours your feet back as soon as you

bring the ball up here shooting hit album shoulder and all are aligned to

the basket that's gonna help me shoot the ball straighter and eliminate a lot

left to right missus I've seen players that have been square shooter their tire

life and increase their shooting percentage maybe ten to twelve percent

just by turning their feet immediately so it's something that's really really

important and something that you probably want to track so taking jump

shots see what you got going on and then kind of assets you know you wanna make

sure you're not turn too far or too little

you know some people like a small turn some people like a bigger turn but where

you want to be careful of is that you're not turning too much I've seen players

kind of start getting carried away and it's 90 degrees and that makes it pretty

hard to get all that power momentum into the Basketball as well so generally want

to turn your feet somewhere between like it there was a clock on the ground

somewhere between like 11 and 10 30 somewhere in there but his players

thought that different to think about turning your fetus or just like seven

and can help unlock all that power your shoulders to make it a lot easier she

with range inconsistency parts of the next thing you want to think about on

your footwork much like Stephon curry is having your heels up at all times when

you're getting ready to shoot the basketball a major mistake that a lot of

players make his when they catch the ball

going into it is it a plant their heels in the ground as they're stepping into

it now the issue with this is as you place your heels it sucks all your

energy momentum into the ground it makes it that much harder to regather it slows

you down a time you lose the latter range and you lose a lot of quickness

till one thing you can do is you can make sure that you're always on the

balls of your feet and heels like the ground just like this you can tell him

on the balls of my feet my heels can act as a natural springboard and allow my

ankles knees and hips to all work together to get that quick pop into the

jump shot the ball makes it all the way to the basket really easy really

smoothly so a great way to think about it is like a diving board I would like

to think about it like that if you're trying to jump off the diving board you

don't run player heels into it and try to bring off you stay on your toes right

and jump shots pretty much the same thing as you're catching the ball you're

getting ready to go into your shock spring off the toes a very little

contact time with the ground and using all three of those joined together get

the spring a jump shot so try to plan your toes if you keep your heels off the

ground can help you out of time by selecting it's really important that

curry shot is that he has a one motion jumper and basically that just means

that he's getting ready to shoot the ball goes up in a one motion manner and

never pauses are never hitches so prob not a lot of players happens when they

get ready to shoot they bring the ball up and it breaks the plane of their

foreheads you can pretend like you draw a straight line up on your forehead if

the ball breaks that plane that means it's going backwards and that has to

come forward making it into motion shot at the issue at this is many times that

makes it so it has a poor are on the shop so if you bring it back it kind of

turned into more of a catapult work comes forward for guys like Steph Curry

keep it all smooth in one motion going up that way he get that optimal arc so

mathematically gonna hit more shots so really kind of the way that I like to

tell if you have a motion to motion is just by the plane your forehead there so

when I would do that film yourself shooting check it out and see if at any

point during shot if the ball comes behind that planning your forehead if it

breaks that plane to motion shot it's probably limiting your range in limiting

your shooting percentage as well so try to make sure it's one motion you know

one thing to think about what the one motion is

you know a lot of younger kids especially try to shoot the ball from

the chest right here and it's good and smooth the one motion and then as they

get older they try to move by the forehead and that's where they need that

extra power and it comes up to just make sure that when you're doing your one

motion if you're trying to move your set point up I like to think about putting

my I burned my finger on my eyebrows right here in my finger up on my eyebrow

it's just a front of my forehead

that's moved one motion all the way to the basket at the next let's talk about

that curry shot line

challenge basically just the path of the ball takes away from the catch all the

way through the release now what a lot of players do is the kind of they start

their shot line wherever they catch the ball at the top of the steps really good

at it he keeps a shot line super consistent by always bringing the ball

to a shot line instead of adjusting the shot line where catch the ball so I mean

by that is this so let their past comes in at out here it's high into the right

his shot lines always right up the right side of his body through the brown to

the basket so instead of catching and bringing his right hand over and pulling

the ball with his right hand going to do a shot is that it doesn't he takes his

left hand on the catch the ball over into a shot line and then goes up with

it from there that way this is always saying the exact same and really the

only kind of changing variables just getting the ball so he's really really

great to bring the ball over to his right hand to having his right hand go

and get it to think about it . he's really good at hitting that left

left-handed drivel hesitation pull up and the reason why is because a lot of

guys that you there left a dribble they bring their right hand over to catch the

ball like this and they try to go up and everything's out of alignment but

instead if you watch him when he shoots the ball over with his left into his

right hand that way everything's all perfectly aligned to the basket to

always think about instead of having your comment him come get the ball on a

bad pass try to bring the ball to dominate and his authority set and ready

to go now make a jumper faster and smoother

get much more consistent

touched on it a little bit before but had the perfect eyebrows that point a

lot of great shoot like this like guys like him you know something like

Thompson Damian Lillard and basically just the idea that you bring the ball up

the time it starts moving toward the basket on your relief is right when your

fingers get your eyebrows right about here if you look at that story when he

brings the ball up the ball right up on the top of his forehead right here and

then begins his release up toward the basket now this is great because a lot

of young players like I mentioned before like to shoot from down here on their

chest and this works when they're younger but the older yet listed this

makes a huge difference having the defender be able to get a hand on the

ball

blocked the ball so what you want to do you want to begin to bring it up to make

sure that it doesn't go any higher than your fingers right on your eyebrows

right here because if you do if you start bringing it up your elbows gonna

go toward the basket of Internet to motion shot we talked about earlier so

really I always like to think that my pointer finger toward it right on my

forehead and i wanna bring the ball up two and then forward on my release

certain yet that can help us are gonna help a ton for smooth this will be able

to get more shots because I talk about their careers will lead efforts what we

call a middle finger shooter

the last year the touch the ball and it finishes down towards the ground now

there's a couple of keys to think about when you're when you're shooting with

your middle finger number one you want your middle fingers directly in the

center of the ball if on that release if you're off to the side

gonna cause everything to be out of alignment you're probably gonna miss to

the left to the right so it really imperative that I release you make sure

the Americans in the center of the ball that way everything fly straight down

the next thing you can do to get the middle for her release is what I call a

poem rotation and it's something that a lot of middle finger shooters do because

to get your fingers in the center of the ball it's kinda hard on your risk to get

a lot of attention back there so polymer taken with the idea that as you bring

the ball up your shooting him gonna stand outside of the ball and as you

bring it up to your set point you're going to rotate around behind so if you

bring the ball up rotated around the back and then follow through with your

palm down

a lot of coaches will take that as a bad because there's extra motion but really

it's pretty repeatable and it's pretty simple to do and it's something that a

lot of shooters guys like Steph Curry and myself do when you're shooting a

basketball so again

basketball and you want to use that poem rotation to rotate the ball around it

comes up your set point and then snap your if the follow-through about step

guide him now a lot of coaches will tell you that your release as the boss comes

up you want to try him facing straight toward the ceiling and this works for

some players before some players it works better

you pointed toward your target a little bit so got like Steph Curry and James

Harden they're really good when they had this guide him come up they keep it on

the ball enough time and then had to come down to get a rotate the guide him

forward to their fingers are facing towards the basket and there's some

straight up in the air now where the future be a little bit of an issue is if

Paul starts rotating because you're pushing with your thumb and so it's

pointing down so this is no you don't want both palms facing towards the

ground but if you can bring the ball up and then flex your risk forward toward

the basket is gonna help guide the ball longer its gonna keep it straighter

a lot of athletes do they have the issue of bringing up their god is great and

then it gets really tense right here with the risk and so they just drop it

off too early and a lot of a lot of you know missus can come in that last little

bit earlier least so you can keep that got him straight with it and then

flopped over just like your risk it gonna help you out quite a bit to stable

that ball for the last crucial seconds of flight that's another issue that a

lot of players have is the extension of their arm on the falter in this is

another step is awesome at so when you release the ball you want to make sure

that your arm is completely straight on the release if it's bent it all makes it

really hard to repeat that exact same spot every time she takes a lot longer

to develop your muscle memory over time so if you notice when steps youths every

time he releases the ball he likes that arm out gets a nice nap of the risk and

therefore it's a lot easier for him to repeat he's not happen to try to find

that exact same little band each time so what I would highly recommend film

yourself shooting and if you can afford any sort of bending your arm I would

work on straightening out because number one you're gonna get better snaps are

gonna get better

range released and there were two is going to be much more consistent over

time you gonna be able to build up muscle memory a lot faster better

shooter a lot quicker so think about that when you release the lock that arms

straight out if we do that we'll be pretty consistent I do not want to make

sure that we solidify the shooting mechanics

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lot like that for the first one way to do with what I like about us to go to

whatever ranges come from or might be 15 feet might be the three-point line and

are you gonna do you go about the ball above your head above your head case I

want you two reactors in about the ball but your head and you gonna do a

two-footed hot in your jumper now what we're thinking about here are two main

banks number one powered off the balls were feel like we talked about earlier

and number two

adding a little bit of a dip for river so I don't want you to do I don't talk

about the ball up your check and go up from your chest I want you about it up

catch I'll bring it down to your waist and then back up because that's going to

be much more fluid than 80 just catching go straight up something we want to

think about like I mentioned is staying on the ball your feet

remember the diving board analogy I gave you earlier right as you spin the ball

yourself going into this drill you're going to power the balls your feet with

very little contact time again for tenant picture like you're bouncing off

the dime or trying to as much spring as you possibly can so I gonna do you gonna

move around three point line pinball yourself powering up after you got the

ball back your head if I guess I am bubbles up get a close-up of the next

row we're going to use to develop the smooth one motion jumper

gonna get to somewhere in the fifteen for range and are you gonna do you gonna

set the ball on the ground outside of your dominant but so I'm right-hander

threw the ball gonna be on the outside of my right foot just like this so I

gotta do is your income that's been grabbed the ball off the ground and

you're gonna shoot it toward the hoop in one fluid motion so picking it up and

shooting toward the WHO so the idea is that we're kind of forcing ourselves to

not shoot into motion cover because it's really hard to pick the ball up pocket

back and then throw up or to keep it smooth flat so I want you to think about

picking the ball up and it should be in one fluid smooth motion toward the

basket this will help you get kind of that one motion down kind of eliminate

your to motion struck

prices next year we're gonna work on that pick up this Steph Curry does keep

that perfect shot like this transition three so are you gonna do you start with

the ball to dribble outside the three-point line with your inside so

wherever he had a good start with the ball in your insight hand and as you

drive towards the three-point line getting ready to shoot I think about

having her heels off the ground and we're working on that pull over to our

dominant hand on the shot so far on the right side of the floor since we got our

insight and I'm right-handed I'm pulling it over to my right hip and then going

into my jumper just like that by pulling it over and going up to work on a

perfect repeatable shop now it's gonna change little bit if you're gonna pull

with your right hand so if I'm on this side of the court now driven up with my

inside and I don't need to pull it over to my hip right because I pulled over

here and i got a funky shop so it's at all I'm doing is I'm pullin up now think

about brushing my elbow on my hip bone just like this if I can pull it over

brush my album I hit bone it means everything to me that same perfect

alignment every single time for this release him around three point line

remember him the ball inside hand and adjusting the mechanics depending on

what the right to the last year we're gonna do with 183 and basically this is

just where you're starting with your back facing to the basket you spin the

ball yourself and on the hot catch you're gonna hop again 180 and fire up

the jumper to the key here that we're working on number one target near 87

carries really good targeting the hoops as soon as you're coming out I want your

eyes up on the rim as soon as you possibly can

locating in a knee working on is just like the footwork before springing up

the ball your heat feet each tiny jump I don't want your heels coming on the

ground I want to see light on the ball your feet spring into it as quickly you

can target to get a workaround the three-point arc and your switch which

way you happy time for the first time in the ball and then hopped this direction

the next time the ball popped the opposite direction that we used to shoot

in opposite directions and it is great in game application because if I'm

coming off of a cut eye catching the ball like this it's pretty much the same

movie right I'm so tired in the hoop I'm still hopping off the feat

same thing come this way off the catch feel pretty much the same movement and

this really actually a little bit harder so gonna make it easier to hit shots in

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