Basketball has been around for about 125 years and people continue to shoot the basketball the wrong way. Of course from the beginning no shot form was established. Any way you could get the ball to the basket and into the basket was acceptable. In the 50’s and 60’s we began to see the formation of a general form used to shoot the basketball. There are three very important things when correctly shooting a basketball balance, hand placement, and eye contact. First is hand placement, hand placement is the most important part of shooting a basketball. You want to have one hand on the side of the ball and another one on the back side of the ball. The hand that is on the side will depend if you’re a left or right handed shooter. So which ever
