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3 Easy Strategies To Improve Your Basketball Game

Being a professional basketball player, I know first hand a few things that could help you improve. When I focused on these three areas that I'm going to share with you, I was able to accomplish a lot more than I could imagine.

1st strategy: Shooting

Being a good shooter is a great way to be effective on the basketball court. In order to be a good shooter, you must have consistency to the way that you shoot the basketball. Your shooting form could be the determining factor between you being a 20% shooter or a 60% shooter. When I began to understand that, I became a better shooter.

I focused on shooting the ball the same every time. This allowed me to know what I could expect from each shot. I didn't have to worry about if it's going to go left this time, right the next. The strategy that I used was lining my shooting arm's elbow directly to the goal. This assured me that I would shoot on target every time by keeping my arm straight when shooting.

With this simple strategy I only had to worry about how high and strong to shoot the ball. I eliminated one worry of direction of my shot by implementing this simple strategy. Other tips help when shooting but this was the most helpful tip. Other tips that help are arc, using your legs and squaring up. When these tips are implemented, your shot will improve.

2nd strategy: Defense

Playing defense is a great and easy way to get more playing time. Early in my career I often got very nervous during games. That resulted in difficulty in performing on the offensive end. Even though I was nervous I still wanted to play for experience and to say I played. So I had to find a way to be effective and help the team in areas besides offense.

That led to me focusing on playing great defense to help the team win. I knew that I had to contribute in some way to get playing time. That's when I took it upon myself to guard every team's best scorer. By me stopping the other team's star from scoring, I was very valuable to my team.

I learned a few strategies that allowed me to be effective on defense and get me the playing time that I wanted. I seemed easy some games to shut players down. By extending one arm toward my opponent and extending the other arm towards the direction that I wanted them to go allowed me to contain them. Being lower than the offensive player is also important and that allowed me to get a lot of steals.

Watching my opponents stomach also helped me contain them. I learned that if you watch the ball or their eyes, they could trick me in the direction that they wanted to go. That led to me discovering that in order for them to move their body, their stomach had to go with them. They wouldn't be able to advance past me without their mid section. By focusing on their mid-section I was able become a pretty good defender.

3rd strategy: Conditioning

Being in good condition was the third strategy that I used to my advantage. If you are able to run longer and faster than others, you could have an advantage. Being in good shape I was able to make opponents tired. This allowed me to get rebounds, fast breaks and easy layups just by having more energy than everyone else. This is self explanatory. If you get in great shape you'll be a lot more effective.

I've shared three strategies that led to me becoming a professional basketball player in Europe. I'm sure if you focus on implementing these strategies into your game, you'll be able to take your game to the next level. I've created free training videos that you can view at the link in the author box. I share the free training videos for people to really understand how to implement the strategies by visually seeing them.

I hope that you enjoy them. Remember that you are a champion, everyone just doesn't know it yet!

How do you play basketball is a program put together by Wesley Channels to help people interested in improving in the game of basketball. We have free training videos with tips that allowed Wesley to become a professional basketball player. You can get the free training videos at http://www.howdoyouplaybasketball.com.

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