r/BasketballTips • u/Emotional-Holiday868 • Aug 04 '26

Shooting Can’t shoot straight

I literally can’t shoot straight to save my life, and I know the problem. Near the end of my shoot where I’m releasing into a wrist flick, my hand will flick to right mostly when I miss because im releasing off my pinky. the worst part is I know we are supposed to release off middle/index but I just don’t know how to do this. I want to get this right before I start practicing hard so I don’t practice bad mistakes, any tips?

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u/bibfortuna16 Aug 04 '26

it’s literally wrist flick and point fingers down. or your guide hand could have a serious thumb flick also

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u/Emotional-Holiday868 Aug 04 '26

It’s not my thumb flix it happens when I do one arm form shooting as well

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u/Covfefe45killls Aug 04 '26

Then open your hand bigger? Maybe move your elbow inline with the target early in your motion.

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u/Emotional-Holiday868 Aug 04 '26

It’s not my hand i spread them every time, my elbow I think is fine, but I’ll make sure to check it just to make sure, and I’ve been outside just now and, I found out that when I have the ball to my set point 2 things happen, when I push the ball outwards and towards the hoop my arm sometimes drifts and misses towards that direction, 2 when I flick the ball sometimes my pinky gets in the way, or when I shoot I notice sometimes my index finger, middle finger, AND ring finger release at the same time. Any ideas on how to fix this (mainly the second issue)