Simplified Top 6 Steph Curry Shooting Tips for 2021

Key Steph Curry Shooting Tips

Steph Curry is one of the greatest shooters of a basketball that has ever lived. He is arguably the greatest shooter ever. He has just become the all time leading 3 point shooter in terms of amount of 3's made so it would help any basketball player to get the top 6 Steph Curry Shooting Tips. So here they are based on an article from Hunter Atkins of Forbes Magazine….

And Now On To Your Top 6 Steph Curry Shooting Tips

1. Square Up the Lower Body With the Basket

“Everybody shoots differently,” Curry begins. Hall-of-Fame forward Rick Barry heaved free throws underhanded. Bulls Center Joakim Noah shoots with all of his fingers like he’s pushing the ball away. Even deadeye sharpshooter Reggie Miller clapped his wrists when releasing the ball. “I’m more like finesse, with a lot of touch,” Curry says. “But if you go waist down, it’s all the same.”

Your feet should be shoulder-width apart. Your dominant foot (i.e. the right foot if you’re right-handed) should be slightly in front of your other foot. The goal is to square up your lower body with the rim. “That means I’ve got 10 toes facing the basket,” Curry simply puts it. If your toes, hips and abdomen face the basket, the odds are better that you’ll shoot on target. “You can be a little off,” with the placement of your feet, he explains. “Technically, I kind of cheat a little bit and mine are just off-center, but they are both facing the same direction.”

2. Jump from a Strong Base

Even the leaping height of a jump shot varies for pros. Curry does not get so high off the ground as Ray Allen, for instance. The key with bending your knee is: “You want to have a strong base.” Bending too much or jumping too high can feel contrived, so find a comfortable motion that you can repeat on every shot. “They say, when most guys get tired and they start to miss, it’s because their legs are tired. You’re foundation is lost. As long as you have good foundation, good balance, your consistency, your accuracy, goes higher.”

3. Look at the Hooks

Looking at the rim is only the beginning of focusing your shot. Curry aligns his trajectory more exactly by staring at the hooks on the bottom of the rim that hold up the net. “There are always three that are facing you no matter where you are on the court,” he says. “That’s almost the width of the basketball.”

It is too difficult to spot the ball in the center of the hoop from long-range. The hooks, however, provide an exact, clear target for Curry to spot. “It also promotes better arc because I know I have to get it up in the air to get it on my target. That’s what your eyes are looking at.”

Curry says firing toward the back of the rim can ricochet the ball at a bad angle. He prefers trying to land the shot just over the top of those three hooks to increase the chance of a benevolent bounce or lucky roll.

4. Make a 90 Degree-Angle

When bringing up the ball, your forearm should be perpendicular to your biceps, creating a 90-degree angle at the elbow.

“You don’t want a chicken wing,” Curry cautions. You do not want your forearm skewed and elbow pointing outward.

5. Shoot With the Fingertips

You shoot the ball with your fingertips to release it with precision and control the spin. The ball will wobble if it rests in your palm. “It’s the same thing when you’re dribbling,” Curry reasons. “You don’t really dribble with the palm of your hand. You dribble with your fingertips because you have more control.”

Held up by your fingertips, the ball should be about a half-inch above your palm. “You don’t have to exaggerate it, just enough where you can have a little bit of daylight in there and see,” he says, literally peering from behind his hand to make sure light shines through.

6. Always Follow Through

As you extend your hand up on the shot, push hard with your fingertips and finish with them dangling in that classic gooseneck shape. This will dictate the arc of the jumper. “You want to hold your follow-through up to put good spin on the ball,” Curry says.

After the release, hold up your craned wrist and keep your hand in the follow through shape. Sure, this promotes good form. But Curry insists: “No matter if you make it or miss it, you always look good.”

Even Curry recognizes the importance of that.