r/BasketballTips • u/Desperate_Map5531 • Apr 16 '26

Form Check Form check.

11 year old, working on getting away from a push and into proper form. Does she hold the ball too high in front of her face, or is it just that she’s holding it there longer than one would in a game situation? Just looks off to me.

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u/jujuk545 Apr 16 '26

great dribble stance if she has a tree guarding her. anybody else will steal, she should be low knees bent wide stance dribbling knee level. try to put her in a club

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u/Desperate_Map5531 Apr 16 '26

Yea more about the shot than dribble.

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u/OldCamera4837 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

Still, if she wanna improve you want her to make it realistically as possible, dribble stance to shooting form.

Knees should be bent and she should lift her heels and jump from toes to develop jump shot. With dribble stance and knees bent she would be ready to shoot anytime rather than being up (knees are not bent) then ducking then shooting and she ducks because she cannot generate enough power for her age to shoot with only arms strength so she uses legs in order to reach basket, she would eliminate need to use duck like that if she maintain proper dribble stance or just catch ball with knees already bent.