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This is a profile that Tim Brown and...

Like many of my lessons that I teach, I enjoy breaking down each aspect of the game into easy to learn steps for my players.  When it comes to the art of the shot, I break the shot down into five easy to  follow steps that help my players for the perfect shooting techniques.  The steps are as follows:
#1  Foot position/Squaring up to the basket
      - - right handed players should point their right toes to the   basket and vice versa for left hand shooters...

Everyone has heard the saying that practice makes perfect.  I have a different motto that I go by and that I instill in my players as well, and that is:  "Practice doesn't make perfect......the CORRECT practice makes perfect".  There are so many different areas of basketball that need to be practiced in order to be a great player and there is a specific way to which these areas of the game must be practiced.  I instruct my students with the idea that when we are finished with our lesson that they will practice on their own time the correct way.  So I give each student specific tasks to do each week and a number of drills that relate to whatever we may have worked on...

Making the transition from a basketball player to basketball coach isn't an easy one, especially when one's passion for playing the game still burns greatly.  My transition came about due to the many injuries that I endured while playing the game in college; from complete dislocations and fractures of ankles to tearing major ligaments...