Practice Shooting Drills

What can I use instead of cones, a hoop, or a timer if I don't have them?

If you don't have cones use water bottles or rolled socks to mark the three shooting spots, if you don't have a hoop use a laundry basket or a taped target on a wall, and if you don't have a timer use your phone's clock or count seconds out loud during the one-minute drills.

My elbow keeps flaring out during the five dry shooting motions—how can I fix it?

Place a small rolled towel under your elbow and do slow, exaggerated dry shooting motions focusing on keeping the elbow under the ball before moving on to the ten shots from the closest cone.

How can I adapt this drill for younger or older kids?

For younger kids move the cones closer, shorten the one-minute drills to 30 seconds, and keep fewer shots per set, while older kids can move cones farther back, extend the one-minute rounds to two minutes, or add jump shots to increase difficulty.

How can we make the drill more challenging or personalize it?

Make it more challenging by assigning point values to each cone, keeping a score sheet or video-recording each one-minute round with a phone to analyze form, adding a weak-hand rule, and then share your finished practice results and what you learned on DIY.org.