Teaching Shot Selection to Your Basketball Team

A Practical Way to Teach "A Good Shot" to Your Team

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Bad shots lose you games. It’s not rocket science.

Teaching your players to evaluate shots the same way you do? That’s another story.

I was thinking through this during last off-season…

If EFG% is the most important factor to winning games, then I better start immediately drilling shot selection with our team.

So, here’s how I’ve gone about teaching shot selection via teaching points, drills, and film breakdown…