How to Shoot a Free Throw in Basketball
Transcript
Eric 'Broadway' Jones: All right, Swoop.
Dwayne 'Swoop' Simpson: Yeah?
Eric: We're back.
Dwayne: We're here.
Eric: We're showing these people how to shoot a free throw. You wanna be free.
Dwayne: Yeah.
Eric: Free...
Dwayne: Fallin'.
Eric: There you go. That's how you wanna do it. Free throws ...
Dwayne: Free, oh.
Eric: ... free throws is all about repetition...
Dwayne: Yes.
Eric: ... and technique.
Dwayne: Yes.
Eric: Two things you wanna remember with free throws, repetition, technique. Say it with me.
Dwayne: Repetition and technique, okay.
Eric: Repetition, technique. You got it, you got it.
Dwayne: All right.
Eric: So you repeat the action over and over ...
Dwayne: Uh-huh.
Eric: ... and practice the same technique.
Dwayne: Now, around what percentage should I be trying. I'm a 10 percent free throw shooter. All right? So that's, that's, is that pretty good for me?
Eric: No, no, no. You're free throw shooting, because there's nobody guarding you on the free throw line ...
Dwayne: Really?
Eric: ... or the foul line. You wanna be somewhere between 85 and 90 percent.
Dwayne: So that means I gotta make a lot of shots?
Eric: Absolutely.
Dwayne: Oh. Well, maybe that's not my ...
Eric: Can you handle that?
Dwayne: I'll work on it. I gotta practice.
Eric: Yeah, well we'll leave it to the expert.
Dwayne: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: That's why we have DP here to show us the proper way how to shoot a free throw. Now we're here with DP the expert.
Dwayne: OK.
Eric: Now he has a motion where he takes three dribbles, gets a good knee bend, but don't do the other thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He gets a good knee bend, and gets a good follow through. We're gonna watch DB on his foul shooting technique. That's how you make a free throw right there.
Dwayne: Good!
Eric: Now notice the same motion. Three dribbles, then extend on the follow through. That's a good free throw.
Dwayne: Yeah, that's good. That's nice. That's nice.
Eric: You like that?
Dwayne: I like it. I'm looking.
Eric: This is how you become a better free throw shooter, Swoop.
Dwayne: OK.
Eric: This is what I'm trying to tell you about.
Dwayne: So you telling me that if I just calm myself down ...
Eric: Yeah.
Dwayne: ... have proper technique.
Eric: Technique.
Dwayne: And what was the other word you said?
Eric: I don't remember.
Dwayne: Me neither. [laughs]
Eric: It doesn't matter.
Dwayne: First, I'm gonna go here, get my ...
Eric: Proper technique.
Dwayne: I have get a routine like his though. Right?
Eric: Yeah, you get a routine ...
Dwayne: OK.
Eric: ... technique. Yeah, yeah.
Dwayne: I'm a on that.
Eric: You only got 10 seconds. You only got 10 seconds.
Dwayne: And then I just ....
ERIC: D**n.
Dwayne: Nice.
Eric: Now you got it. Let me see that routine again.
Dwayne: OK. OK. OK.
Eric: Spin it out. You gotta make that sound, too?
Dwayne: Yeah.
Eric: Then, follow through. So that's why you're set for set. All right. Now, as you can see the right and the wrong way to shoot a free throw. If you have the proper technique, and then you use repetition, good follow through, good form, you can become a better free throw shooter.
