r/Basketball

as the title says im terrible at making catch & shoots... but when im using a move, lets say a side step or a misdirection stepback my percentage goes significantly higher. i think i know the problem but still missing something, this is really hurting my game as a slasher i thought being a good midrange shooter would help a lil but they still sag off of me on the 3. any advice would be appreciated

I bought a shooting sleeve a while back and wore it in some practices where the weather was cold, non of my teammates said anything negative, most of them liked it and some of them even started wearing them as well. So I started wearing it in almost every practice. Then I went to hoop with some friends at a local court and one of them started criticising saying bro you are not in the NBA and that it looks cringe what do y'all think.Thanks

Guys that have played organized hoop, what’s the worst conditioning/punishment you’ve ever been put through?

What’s the backstory?

Lastly, was your team any good?

My story: I played in Hs and a few seasons D3 in college. (I was trash 98% of my career 😂) Thankfully I had started running track late in high school and genuinely enjoyed training by college, plus lucked out with a college coach who didn’t run us too crazy.

Worst practice I can remember is in High School my first season on varsity. We had a game the night before against the eventual state champions. We legitimately got laughed out of the gym. Lost by 42. I didn’t play a single minute. Next practice coach shows up with a T-shirt that said 42 in it in big bold letters lmao. He turned the heat up in the gym and had us run laps long enough for him to yell at us and give his speech, which felt like half an hour. Then we had to get on the line and he put 20min on the clock so we could run 20 suicides. People kept messing up and finishing too slow by the end so we had to run way more than 20 but we finally finish. People are puking. Trash bins all over the gym. Legs barely function. We are relieved it’s all over. Just as we’re expecting practice to be over and we can go free—— this mf puts ANOTHER 20min on the clock. Said we didn’t run hard enough. We had to do the 20 suicides all over again. I damn near blacked out.

Side note: we went like 4-14 that year. Very trash.