How to Correct Your Grip in Basketball

Coach Mac's tips will improve your hoop shooting on the basketball court! This time he focuses on grip correction.

Video Transcription

A lot of times when you start to shoot, and you back out here from 15 feet and 16 feet, you have a rebounder and you start to shoot. If you find that you are not really making your shots, if you find out that, you have been shooting out here and for one reason or another, the ball is not going in, you might notice that the ball is going to the left or the ball is going through the right, okay. There is a miss, follow the miss with another shot. Just like that. And I noticed that the ball is going to the right on both of those misses. I would realize that it is probably in my grip. I would realize that as I am shooting the ball, my left hand stay it on a little bit too long. The ball is headed to the right a little bit, okay? That I could do two things, I could consciously figure that out or I could actually go to my secondary left handed grip. Put the ball. Put my hand underneath the ball, which would guarantee me a better grip with my right hand.