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TIPS ON SHOOTING FLOATER:

Here’s some bb tips that will hopefully help your game shooting a floater:

The floater is a beautiful shot. The first thing you must do is get the ball up to the shooting pocket with your knees bent, and then go straight up and release the ball.

I was at a scrimmage of a Big East team last season, and all their players in practicing the floater did it wrong. As they all leaned forward into their shot, and that resulted in the ball going long or falling short.

All good shots are predicated on getting the ball to the shooting pocket before lifting off your feet to propel the ball. If you lean forward, you are taking your legs out the shot, and are mostly shooting with your arms, and that will cause the ball to go long or fall short.

A big mistake is to start to get into your jumping motion as you bring the ball up to the shooting pocket. Not good. As your legs won’t be propelling the ball. The ball must be brought up high when knees are still bent so legs can propel the ball as player lifts off the ground.

When the Big East players were told the correct way to shoot the floater they consistently made them.