Shooting 5-spot series

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A shooting work-out with a partner or coach.
1) Shots off a pass
Start under the basket, sprint around the first spot with a right-shoulder turn for a pass, shoot, run under the basket, repeat at the other four spots. Mike Neighbors - 5-spot shooting - touch the middle of the lane between spots.
(Variations)
- make a putback after a miss, or after every shot |

| 2 Continue with 5 shots using left-shoulder turns, running under the basket after each shot.
(Spin self passes for a solo work-out, see Shooting - 5star circus, also Spot and Nash 3-spot) |

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| 4 b) Off the dribble
From under the basket, dribble to each spot and back to the basket for a finish at the rim.
Variations
- dribble with the same hand all the way through - make a behind the back dribble at each spot.
Tim Springer - pound dribble 10 times, dribble out and around a cone, finish with a layup (angles are glass, front of rim, reverse layup), repeat for 7 makes, use cones at multiple spots. Progressions - finish with a floater, spin, step-through - make a change of direction going away from the basket.
See Layups - Speed.
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| 5 3) Shots off the dribble
Dribble out to each spot and shoot a pull-up jump shot, dribble with the same hand through-out the drill.
Derek Kellogg - dribble around a cone and shoot, inside pivot foot.
See Shooting - 5star triangle. 6-spot shoot-out, Layups - Speed. |
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