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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

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NBA Shooting Coach. Data & Skill Acq informed. Currently Shooting Consultant for @dallasmavs Formerly PHX, CLE, ORL & NBA-GLI

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

1 year

10 years from now "Release Efficiency" will be as common a term in basketball as "Club face angle" is in golf. In order to gain an advantage in learning and development we first need to be able to quantify. Once we can quantify shooting mechanics, learning will accelerate.

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@CoachDaveLove

Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 months

One of the best shooters in the world would "pre-shoot-around shoot, and post-shoot-around shoot". The best shooters always shoot the most. Always. If you want to get closer to that level you have to out shoot the best shooter you know.

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How hard do pros work? This hard ⬇️

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Don't compare your shot to NBA players by FEEL. Take video of yourself and see what you are ACTUALLY doing, not what you THINK you are doing. There may be difference. If you need help identifying weaknesses now I can analyze you shot for you. LINK ON BIO - Video Shot Analysis

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

HS Basketball Coaches: I’m considering selecting 5 coaches around the world at the HS level to work with. Not exactly sure what it’s going to look like. Would start with phone and Skype calls and talking about the challenges you face and seeing where I can help.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Coaches: I’m curious how many, if any, of you would be interested in spending a full weekend with me in a small-group environment to go over all things shooting related? Picturing a weekend at a destination 12-20 coaches, lots of time in gyms, video rooms, and activities.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Patience is key... You won’t change a habit in one day. You won’t become a 40% 3pt shooter in one workout. You won’t got from bench player to starter in one practice. But if you consistently work, great things are possible.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

1 year

Big thanks to @facucampazzo for a great week of learning and developing. Excited to see the next chapter unfold in Europe.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

Understand the player your team needs you to be. 9 dribbles to shoot a long contested shot while your teammates are standing is probably not what they need. Be ready to catch and shoot or take two hard dribbles to create something.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

🏀Top 5 Most Common Things I Say In Shooting Workouts🏀 1️⃣ Finish on balance 2️⃣ Keep it in front of you 3️⃣ Trust the shooting hand 4️⃣ Up not out 5️⃣ Keep your body simple Not sure what any of those mean? Follow my newsletter.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Why I teach index finger on the middle of the ball and adjust from there.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

I've measured the hands of players of 1000s of players that attend my shooting clinics. 90+% of them, their index finger is the centre of their hand. That is a critical detail to know when developing a shooter.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

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Quantifying Shooting Mechanics: Learning is slow because of limits in technology, but that will steadily improve over time. I'm doing the best I can to quantify the things that are important to me as a shooting coach. Quantification is the first step to removing opinions.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

💡Slow down pass to give players time to be mindful 📝 I'll use this drill for a variety of different habits, most commonly foot position 🔑 Speed up roll as player gets comfortable with teaching point 🧠 Don't roll directly to player - make them move at least a slide or two

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 months

The human body was not designed for the purpose of shooting a basketball, so there is no one IDEAL way of shooting. But there are foundational principles. And over the last two years I've worked with a research partner to prove two of them. (Thread)

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

I ask every great shooter … “Who did you know that shot more than you growing up?” Every single person has answered “no one!”

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Ball is Psych

3 years

You’d be hard pressed to find a great basketball player who wasn’t a gym rat. Come rain or shine, hell or high water, stay in the gym.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

In Australia last week for the BA Coaches Conference. Had this amazing moment after a player apologized for making a mistake in a drill. No need to apologize. You are human. Basketball is tough. When you know you made a mistake, you can fix it. It’s a good thing.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

The best shooting coach I know has ZERO followers on social media. But he is trusted to help future Hall of Famers, and they all get better. The number of followers someone has does not correlate with how good they are, at all.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

Understand the player your team needs you to be. 9 dribbles to shoot a long contested shot while your teammates are standing is probably not what they need. Be ready to catch and shoot or take two hard dribbles to create something.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

The first thing I do after determining what the bad habit is that is causing misses, is to isolate that bad habit. Simplify the situation and learn to do it differently.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

Are your habits helping you make 45% of the 4 open shots you get in a game, or are they helping you make 25% of 1 tough shot and hurting you on the open 4?

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Steve Dagostino

@DagsBasketball

3 years

📢 “Your ability to make quick decisions and be productive is way more important than your ability to make tough shots” I feel like every player and trainer in 🇺🇸 needs to hear this

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Coaches: Based on your feedback I’m considering creating two online courses... 1) how I isolate habits and layer drills to create better habits 2) how I diagnose a shot Would either of those interest you? If so, which one? Any other ideas?

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

This is why I don’t concern myself with what is “natural” for poor shooters. Doing what feels “natural” has led them to being a poor shooter. We need to build new habits, and to do that you might have to do something that uncomfortable in the beginning.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

This is great phrasing… “I want to make the uncomfortable comfortable when it comes to games… but in practice I want to make the comfortable uncomfortable.” So good as always @BBallImmersion

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Don Showalter

3 years

Chris Oliver on making players uncomfortable in games and practices! Great thoughts! ⁦ @USABYouth ⁩

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

If you are a youth player, don’t think for a second that College and Pros are doing fun, fancy, exciting drills. They are working on details. Over and over. More boring stuff than the stuff you do now. And they are mastering these details.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

Getting your elbow above your eyes is only part of the sentence I use when I teach ARC. WHEN that occurs is just as important.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

Make sure you understand the physics of shooting. I believe too much is made of the elbow position and not enough made of hand position. And I practice this A LOT.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

So happy that when I started as a shooting coach I didn’t have to worry about “creating content” or “building a brand”. I got to focus on coaching shooting + making players better. So much harder for trainers now. You have to build a brand before you are even any good at the job

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

💡Randomized form shooting w/ defender 📝 Adjust cone width for more or less time ✔︎ Shooter moves in one direction, defender must touch opposite cone before contesting ✔︎ Layer drill w/ form shooting as shooter works habits ⭐️ @BBallImmersion @alexjsharama inspiration

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 months

What are my 3 Shooting Non-Negotiables? I don't have many "absolutes". Everyone is different and my job is to adjust accordingly. But here are my 3 biggest areas of focus.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

I don’t stress 500 makes in a day to be a great shooter. 100-200 shots with focus on a bad habit will go a lot further, especially for younger or weaker shooters. Better to give laser focus to your weakness for 45min than to just repeat your same shot for 2hrs. - @CoachDaveLove

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Form shooting doesn't need to be stationary. And shooting with movement doesn't need to be game speed. This is a 3rd day working with a player. We are adding reads and movement, but still working on details within his form.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

The best way to become a great shooter: 1) Be patient 2) Shoot more than anyone else you know over the next 10 years.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

If you can make 80% of your FTs, and 40% of your 3s in games, shoot it however you want. But if you can’t, your shot is too complicated and you need to simplify. This means better mechanics. More energy up in the air and at the hoop.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

NBA Shooting Coach Thinking about starting to schedule calls with youth coaches to see how I can help. Available to youth organizations and high schools. Not sure the form it would take but would be limited to 20min. RT and reply if you’d be interested...

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

2 years

No one builds your habits for you. No coach. No drill. Coaches and drills only put you in a position to build the habit for yourself. IT'S ON YOU!

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

There isn't just form shooting and game speed shooting. There are all the speeds and layers in between. We should be using all of them to help players develop and refine new shooting habits. That is what I do. I help players refine their form to Unlock Their Potential!

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

🏀How to structure your shooting workout🏀 1️⃣Form Shooting 2️⃣Mechanical Drill (Use drills to isolate a bad habit and improve it) 3️⃣Game Situation (Get reps of game situations you see every game) 4️⃣Random practice (small sided game) 5️⃣FTs between sets

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Does anyone know how I can reach the parents of #50 ?

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Scott Abraham

5 years

This will be the best thing you see all weekend. A young man helps his teammate score a basket. The power of sports...beautiful.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

🏀How I diagnose a shot...🏀 1️⃣How does the ball spin/rotate? 2️⃣What does their ball flight/arc look like? 3️⃣What is their most common miss? 4️⃣What body positions would cause that miss? 5️⃣How do I need to teach a new body position?

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

🏀My New Shooting Non-Negotiables🏀 1️⃣ Be as balanced as possible 2️⃣Shoot the middle of the ball with the middle of your hand 3️⃣Be in a position to lift the ball up in the air

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Just saw a young coach tell her team (9 year old girls) to throw the ball out of bounds (while up 20pts) so the other team could sub players in for one more shift (with two minutes to go). I admire that play. Well done Coach!

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

Form shooting is not just shooting slowly or from close in. Form shooting is shooting with extreme focus on the details within the shot. If you don’t know the detail you are focussing on, or you aren’t holding yourself accountable to doing it, you are wasting your time.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Finished a workout with one of my NBA guys. Played a new FT game to finish. He had 10mins. Had to MAKE 10fts where the ball rolled back to him without help and without him moving his feet to collect it. He made 20 in 10min. Try it & let me know how many times you can do it.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 months

The form shooting I see most players doing is almost a complete waste of time, and the very reason they hate doing it. There is no purpose to it. For any form shooting drill to be valuable there needs to be Purpose and Challenge. Here's how I do it.... (Thread)

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

What I would focus on for shooting form with various age groups: Ages 0-11 - Balance and feet Ages 12-13 - Proper grip Ages 14-15 - Shooting motion Ages 16+ - Details Obviously this is a simplified list.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Watch my presentation on my "3 Shooting Non-Negotiables" at Basketball Manitoba's Coaches Conference. Learn the 3 things that EVERY shooter needs to try to do, regardless of their age, skill level, or current shooting habits.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

I love the social media “shooting coaches” that use their accounts to openly mock poor shooting. Remember, these are the people we are tasked with helping. If you can’t find it in your heart to be compassionate to these people I personally wouldn’t trust you to work with anyone.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Coaches: What basketball blogs, sites, forums, etc do you use the most? I don’t mean things like . I mean more like . Places you hang out online and LEARN. Thank you.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

All-time great shooters like Dirk, Nash, and Ray Allen warmed up simply but precisely. Don't underestimate the importance of making a lot of easy shots before you start trying to extend your range.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

My goal as a shooting coach isn’t to get each player doing everything “correctly”. The fact of the matter is “correct” is debatable. My goal is to correct the 1-2 habits that are really holding a player back from being much more successful.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

🏀How I diagnose a shot...🏀 1️⃣How does the ball spin/rotate? 2️⃣What does their ball flight/arc look like? 3️⃣What is their most common miss? 4️⃣What body positions would cause that miss? 5️⃣How do I need to teach a new body position?

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@CoachDaveLove

Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

🏀How to structure your shooting workout🏀 1️⃣Form Shooting 2️⃣Mechanical Drill (Use drills to isolate a bad habit and improve it) 3️⃣Game Situation (Get reps of game situations you see every game) 4️⃣Random practice (small sided game) 5️⃣FTs between sets

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Youth players would be shocked by a couple of things when they watch my pro workouts. First, how engaged the players are. They aren't passengers. They are asking questions and searching for feedback constantly. Secondly, the level of focus. Third, the level of humility.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

What are you working on today? Beginner answer - "basketball' Intermediate answer - "shooting" Professional answer - "Improving my balance when I come off a pin down" How many layers of specifics you can drill down will determine how successful you become.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Having a shooting theory is important as a shooting coach. Having a shooting theory isn't that important when working with an individual player. This video from a recent coaches clinic in Australia. Follow my newsletter at

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

🏀Top 5 Most Common Things I Say In Shooting Workouts🏀 1️⃣ Finish on balance 2️⃣ Keep it in front of you 3️⃣ Trust the shooting hand 4️⃣ Up not out 5️⃣ Keep your body simple Not sure what any of those mean? Follow my newsletter.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

This is relatively similar to some of my NBA workouts. Instead of explaining “drills” to players, we start by identifying what habits we are working on. Then I say things like “make it harder”, “make it more like a game” and let them decide how to do that.

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Chris Oliver

@BBallImmersion

3 years

What is player led development? My daughter dribbles, shoots however she wants while I rebound. I don’t prescribe. I encourage her to discover & I support her. Sometimes I show her something & ask her if she can do it. She makes mistakes, misses, fumbles & stumbles.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

All-time great shooters like Dirk, Nash, and Ray Allen warmed up simply but precisely. Don't underestimate the importance of making a lot of easy shots before you start trying to extend your range.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

I stand in different spots on the floor to see different parts of a players shot. Much of my time will be silent standing behind players. Here’s what I’m looking for...

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

🏀How I diagnose a shot...🏀 1️⃣How does the ball spin/rotate? 2️⃣What does their ball flight/arc look like? 3️⃣What is their most common miss? 4️⃣What body positions would cause that miss? 5️⃣How do I need to teach a new body position?

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

How can you help players get out of shooting slumps? Reply back with what you do to help them.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Coaches: I’m getting very close to announcing a weekend coaching retreat for early May. For coaches of all levels, limited Enrollment, personal access to me and everything I teach. And that’s only half the story... More details coming soon. Reply if you are interested

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

When I took the job as Shooting Consultant for the Cleveland Cavs in 2013, I needed to take a leave of absence from my full-time job at the Post Office to do so. I can confirm he is absolutely correct. A bad day in the gym is better.

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Phil Beckner

3 years

Nothing better than when you get to hangout with an ole ball coach and when asked how his day is going he drops the line… “It’s better than working at the post office.”

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

When I was a young coach I moved on from drills after a certain amount of reps just because I felt like my workouts needed to have variety. Now I'm willing to work on the most pressing issue until we make progress. Sometimes that takes a few minutes. Sometimes several months.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

💡Focus on the alignment of your fingers. 📝 Start with middle of the hand on the middle of the ball. Have partner lift the ball to the set point to keep middle of the game in the right position. 🧠 Don't allow hand to drift out of position. 🔑 Slow down and be mindful.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

I do a lot of form shooting in my workouts with NBA players. I rarely see youth players doing it, that is a problem. Plus when they do it, they usually make several mistakes that are easy to avoid. Check out my blog about COMMON FORM SHOOTING MISTAKES

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Balance, set point, consistent motion. Those are just some of the keys to a repeatable shot. Work to build habits so you can do simple things in complex situations. Get my online workout programs to improve your balance, arc, and guide hand. Link on BIO #basketball #nba

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

8 years

Fun time!!!!

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Craig Hoffman

8 years

Chopped up a variety of hoops & media topics with @kaileighbrandt and @CoachDaveLove . Really fun roundtable. Enjoy!

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

The NBA players are the most coachable group I’ve ever worked with. If you are young and think that NBA players aren’t coachable, think again. If they are listening, you should be too.

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Coach Mac 🏀

6 years

Why average players succeed: 1. Hard work 2. Coachable 3. Know their strengths and weaknesses 4. Hustle plays

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Thinking of creating a mentorship program. Would start with a small group, free of charge, focussed on HS coaches, college GAs, and young skills trainers. Any thoughts on how to keep people in a free informal program accountable to consistent attendance?

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Watch my presentation on my "3 Shooting Non-Negotiables" at @basketballmb Coaches Conference. Learn the 3 things that EVERY shooter needs to try to do, regardless of their age, skill level, or current shooting habits.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Stop searching for ONE MAGIC DRILL. With my NBA players I identify habits, isolate bad habits, then layer drills to learn to APPLY better habits. If you look for one MAGIC drill, you just get good at that drill. Learn my process to improve your ARC by clicking the link on bio.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

You’re never too good to go back to the basics. My #NBA players all build their habits 10-feet from the basket until they can prove perfect technique. Then, we move to 12-feet...

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Rather than trainer twitter wars, I’m staging a #twittercoacheslovein Three coaches that immediately jump to mind when I think of Great Coach AND kind, positive person. @BBallImmersion @RepYourWork @gregjockims Many others but they jump to mind. What about you?

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

1 year

One thing it’s hard for young players to understand… Great shooters are allowed to take tough shots because they are good enough to make them at a high enough rate for those shots to be valuable. Young shooters tend to think if they TAKE those shots it makes them great.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Stop searching for ONE MAGIC DRILL. With my NBA players I identify habits, isolate bad habits, then layer drills to learn to APPLY better habits. If you look for one MAGIC drill, you just get good at that drill. Learn my process to improve your ARC by clicking the link on bio.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

Have to share my Delly experience… I was with the Cavs in 2013-14. Delly was a part of our summer league team as an undrafted player. The general feeling of the coaching staff at SL was “nothing more will come of it but we have to invite Delly to training camp, right?”

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Alan Keane

3 years

Elite message to all players from @TheWalmsleyAdv via FB. To coaches, assume how Brian Goorjian managed this is 🔑

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

Don’t confuse “supervising” with “coaching”. Just walked through a gym with a summer camp going on. There were 4 coaches, 3 had coffee cups in their hands. Even if you are ABLE to coach like this, it’s not a great look or message to send to your players.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Talking about how to create arc at the @United_Clinics clinic at the Famous Hoosiers Gym.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 months

I believe the single most valuable thing a coach can do before starting any drill (particularly shooting drill)... Is to remind the players "what habit are we working on here?" Then hold accountable to that habit and adjust as necessary. Avoid mindless reps.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Want to become a more consistent shooter? Make sure you are covering these three areas.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

I used to do a LOT of block practice of form shooting. And I still do a little. Now, this is what my form shooting is starting to look like. More variable environment, a read, then a mindful shot. Adjust the speed, distance and variables as the skill increases. SOUND ON.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Simple and Repeatable Habits are the Magic Pill everyone is looking for but no one wants to take. They want it to be difficult, flashy and fun, but get simple and repeatable results. Rarely works that way.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

Avoid “Zero Threat Position” Can’t really pass or dribble, plus the ball is exposed. Can’t really shoot either. Will either be a flat shot, or need to either lower the ball to generate power, or raise it to get under the ball (if you are strong enough)

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

🎥Video from one of my Inner Circle Members. 💡Form shooting with a Read/Decision. 🔗Player is working to tie the reaction to a new habit. 🧰Repetition without repetition. 📖Read the feet, remember the micro skill, simplify/complicate as needed.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Ok.... So over the next week plus I’m going to try to do a lot of free online events. What would you want to learn? Get ZOOM ready.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

Want to prove to me you are a good shooting coach? Show me tangible evidence the players you work with regularly got better. Until you can do that, you are just a theoretical coach, and theories aren’t that important. Results are.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

I pay a lot of attention to the rotation of the ball. Not because the rotation matters so much, but because it indicates where the player pushed the ball and whether it has a chance to go consistently straight.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Questions for an NBA Shooting Coach? Start firing away. I’ll be back in an hour to start answering!!!

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

3 years

Take the same idea and apply it to form shooting. Stop doing stationary form shooting and start form shooting after different types of movement. Hops, steps, pivots. Play with the speed of the shooting motion to make sure you get whatever habit you are working on correct.

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3 years

Spend less time dribbling the ball straight into the floor and more time learning how to MANIPULATE the ball Push, pull, retreat, cross etc… Stationary handles are good but the game requires your body to move with the ball. Work on the real game! 🏀

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

What causes a flat shot? This is something I go into in the first day of my online workout program "7 Days to Better Arc". But once you know WHY your shot is flat, you need a progression of drills to help you change the habit. Get my progression. Get BETTER LINK ON BIO

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

5 years

I hear all the time... “You can’t change a players shot in season” The younger the player, the more I would personally ignore this “rule”. Young players are changing their shot on a daily or weekly basis anyways. Might as well change it for the better.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

Not everyone is entitled to shoot 3s. If you can't do it with good form then you are just practicing habits that make you worse. Here are my thoughts on how you can increase your range:

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

6 years

Arc has a little to do with legs and follow through, and a lot to do with hand position and set point. Make sure you understand how to truly create better arc.

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Coach Dave Love | NBA Shooting Coach

4 years

Lots of new drill content coming in the next week. This is my first building-block for form shooting. I use about 4-5 variations of form shooting, this is usually the first. More details coming soon.

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