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Now, we talk about habits, what we want you to do is get into a good habit when you walk into the gym. I watched some of you as you came in this morning, you grabbed the ball, you started warming up and your first shot was almost out here. You just came out, you just started shooting. That is a bad habit. And the reason I tell you that it is a bad habit is there are things in your body called ligaments, joints, muscles, tendons that need to be warmed up properly and stretched out so that when you go to shoot the ball, you are not pushing the ball.
When you go to shoot it does not become because your arm is tight, a quick muscle. You know that movie that is out right now with the 12 year old rookie, Rookie of the Year, have you heard about that? They said that he tore his muscles out of his shoulders and now he has a wicked fastball, because it just boom. That is what you do with your shot.
So you have to warm up all these muscles and joints and tendons on your body. You have heard of players like Bill Sherman, and Bob Cousy and Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Chris Mullen, Scottie Pippen, all these players will come in close to the basket and go and warm up from here. Now they do not come in here and start taking five or six dribbles – go ahead and dribble – as soon as they catch the ball and then go to a shooting position. The reason they do not do that is because it is not a good habit, if they do it when they practice, what are they going to do in the game?
As soon as they catch, they are going to put the ball down. The biggest problem we have with younger players is that want to catch the ball, and they want to put it on the floor and they never even see what they have. So, even when you warm up in practice, we are going to get you in the habit of going to a warm up spot, into a triple threat position – come in just a couple of inches coach – now we will team you up in pairs, when we do this. But for now I am going to show the five spots that we will warm up from. Should go to a triple threat, this is spot number one. Shoot. And she will make. Shoot. Ten shots from this position before she goes to spot number two. Shoot.
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How many shots a game did you take? Do you know? You are not sure right. I am sorry? 20 or 30, how many points in a game did you average? Coach, come over here. Okay, you took 12 shots, 20 or 30 shots a game. I had to remember that. He took 12. Okay. Alright, so you took 12 shots a game, you average ten points a game, now remember when you take away the times that you go to the free throw line, if you are fouled on a shot, is that counted as one of your shots from the floor, no. So, he averaged ten a game, but he took 12 shots a game. He probably shot 44%, somewhere in their. Okay, 45%. That is a good average, 45 % - 55% is a good shooting average for basketball players. So if he had taken 20 shots a game-
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