The Secret to Shooting Off The Dribble | IMPROVE YOUR JUMP SHOT

Hey sports fans, Coach Nick here and welcome to V-Ball Breakdown. I am excited to be here at Victory Christian Academy in Florida where we have LJ, Mike, and Jordan to talk a little bit about shooting. I have a really cool shooting trick for you or a tip or a unlocking a secret of how to shoot long distance three-point shots off the dribble and it's a great way to get that shot off quickly with rhythm and power and it's also effortless. So let's discuss the basic idea behind why catching shoot shots are so good or usually a higher percentage. Generally it's because when you're catching that ball you can dip the ball down and back up again which is that rhythm we've been talking about for ages and how you generate the right amount of power. Well what if I were to tell you you can dip off the dribble. So let me show you how that works with these guys right now. You guys get in the line and we do one at a time. So we'll give you the ball first. Now what I want to see here is as he's bringing the ball up and he's getting ready to do a left right into his shot he's going to float the ball. The ball is the float dribble which means it comes up a little bit higher than normal and then as it's going back down for that last dribble his left palm will be facing upwards and it's going to interrupt the dribble and then go up into the shot. So can you demonstrate that real quick for us? Good. Let's see Mike do. Okay now good. Now that was a little bit less of a dip and the key here with the float dribble is the ball has to come up and then on the way down is where you have your left hand pointing up and it stops the dribble. So if I try and go like this and quick snatch it on the way up I now don't have a dip and I'm trying to yank the ball up without a lot of power a lot of rhythm. So that's the key. If you want to do that kind of a shot from 15 feet that's fine. If I try and short hop a gather and shoot it from 15 it's closer you don't need as much power. Well I'm talking about college three pro three and if you're in high school and you're a good player you want to be able to shoot from the pro three up from off the dribble. So it is as the ball comes up here the hands on top of the ball now boom it stops here and then comes back up and then in real time it will look like this. Okay so that's what I want to see you guys try to do now. So let's see you try this. Aha so do you see how he did that? That was a short hop. He quick gathered it right in front of him. So LJ try it again. Good good and now he's accentuating it to really show you but that's getting better and what you can't see is the ball goes right in the basket. See if you can do it now. Let the ball float up and then go down. Yes better better. Now look at that all right. Aha so this is something that you need to work on. I'm telling you it's going to extend your range a lot if you can figure it out because what you're still doing here is as you dribble the ball it's you're gathering it here. You don't gather the ball on the way up. You gather the ball on the way down. Got that? So you see that that down up motion. It really is a secret. Now we also can talk about the left hand dribble because for righties the left hand dribble is generally a better shot because you're bringing the ball to the shooting hand. Well can you still dip the ball that way? Yes the answer is yes you still can. So as I bring the ball it's the same idea with the float. It is okay the left hand's on the side of the ball. I come down here. I bring it to the right side. I don't want to reach across because that's when you get that same hurt too early to gather right here. Now I have no dip. I got to not only get it across my body but now yank it up into the shot. So as I come up here and I'm floating the dribble boom boom. See that? I'll show you in real time in a little bit of release. Okay that is another secret. Now again if you're worried about the ball getting stolen because you're floating the dribble. Well generally if you're a good player and you're out here about 25-26 feet. If the defender is not giving you a couple steps then you're going to blow right by generally right? And we can worry about that's why you have to really worry about heavy pressure. All you need from here is a couple of feet of space for your defender and then you can pull before they're even ready. So you want to try that quick. Show me a left-hander. Good yeah. That's actually even more natural looking for that. I don't know if that felt that more natural. That looked better. Let's see if you guys can do it. Yeah better. That already was much better than right-hand dribble even though you're you're right. Yeah okay you're getting there. You're getting there. Now remember the left hand is on the side of the ball right versus the right hand when the hand's on top of the ball like we're dribbling it and then doing it. But it doesn't mean the ball won't go down. The ball needs to go down and then back up. It has to go from up here. Boom okay. You've seen plenty of NBA players dipping off the dribble and if you want to witness it live and in person then you've got to download SeatGeek. The best app to find tickets to any sporting event, concert, or the theater. With just a few taps SeatGeek will scour the internet for the best deals out there giving them a grade so you know what kind of value you're getting. They're rated number one on Trustpilot amongst all major ticketers so you can feel secure that your tickets are legit. Best of all you can save 20 bucks off your first purchase by using my code bball. So head over to SeatGeek now and you can enjoy all your favorite NBA teams live and in person. Now another really quick thing I'm sure you guys might like is you ever see um it's dribble in place for me real quick. Show me the dribble. Now what you'll notice for him when he's doing a lot of guys do is they pound the dribble and they straighten the whole arm. Well if you watch guys like Russell Westbrook what I love what they do about dribbling is it's all wrists so it's like this. Okay like he'll cross over and he'll just come down boom. See that my arm doesn't straighten it's much more deceptive right it's boom like that. So you can still master that kind of a move with the float dribble. So if you want to float it and at any moment the guy you know is going to reach it for it because it's up higher he thinks oh I'm going to steal it from you. You can use that dribble with just the wrist. Yeah you got that? You like that? Do you ever do that? No? That feels okay. Do that again. Yeah now you got to give it a little bit of a drop into you know dropping it sounds like you're crossing over and going. This is something you need to work on because if you float the dribble it will now give you the chance to shoot the ball with a dip which is again the key from deep again deep not necessarily close from deep and if they think that they're going to steal it from you you use that kind of a dribble with just the wrist and you're right by the guy every time he looks embarrassed it's embarrassing for him. The last piece of the puzzle though which I love about this is that because my left hand is pointing up to the ground or to the sky as I'm going to gather the right hand dribble I can now do all that Steph Curry stuff where he fakes a shot off a dribble. So as I'm coming up and now I float it I can do my left right just like I would normally do. I'm looking at the basket even and I can go left right bring that left hand here right and as it's coming down just push it across and it missed my left hand it keeps dribbling so left up here and then come back back down. Now the defender has a hard time figuring out whether you're going to shoot it whether you're going to cross over and drive or just run your offense and that'll guarantee that you'll get more space. Did you want to do that move before where you shot fake off the dribble? Let's see. Good. So what you're doing on that is the very typical one which is bringing the left hand up toward the ball and then you cross over. What I'm suggesting is the ball is up here it's on the way down and the left hand's waiting for it and instead of collecting it like you would to shoot it you just push it to the side. Can you try that? Yes. Okay good. Now do it one more time and we'll get it smooth and we'll let's try this guy real quick. So yeah okay good. You add a gaze to the brim and then you add a little left right for the shot and you're going to get everybody baked out of their shoes. You want to try it? Let's see. Not quite. That was more of a sutter step. Show me a left right like you're going to shoot it right. Get the eye gaze to the rim but then as the ball's on its way down you just push it over that way. Good. That was pretty good. The left hand placement is key. If you bring it to the side or up too high then you don't get that same kind of dip like I'm showing you. Again it's deceptive because the ball starts going down and at any moment depending what the defense does or your decision you can then keep dribbling or shoot it and that's the key here when you want to be deceptive in terms of getting that shot off and I'm telling you the more you do this and as you come up right I could get that shot off like that so quick they'll never bother you. They wouldn't get a hand up because they'll be like whoa the ball's already out and if you practice this with you for a few weeks even you're going to see the ball go in as often if not more than when you shot normally off the dribble. And that's the key. So don't forget float dribble is really important for a lot of different things and also it'll help you then get a good dip off the dribble from deep and I guarantee you will make a lot more shots from behind. So thank you guys for demonstrating. That was really great. Keep working on this and we'll get back to you. We'll check on your progress in a little bit and don't forget sports fans the B-Ball Breakdown not a channel for a conversation. You in? You in guys? I'm always in sir.