You will find here 6 major tips to improve your shoot.

1. Get open.
Create a lead before you receive the ball. Take advantage of your teammates to find an open shot position. Set up the shot you want. "Hoped Shots" rarely end up in the basket.

2. Shot selection.
Know your ability and your shooting percentage. Concentrate a lot while shooting practice. This is important to have a higher percentage during practice. Some good practice shooters may become only average game shooters, but there are no poor practice shooters who are excellent game shooters.
Know where your teammates are before shooting. Make sure no teammate is open for a better shot. Know when to shoot. Passing up a good shot is just as important as taking a bad shot. Be aware of defensive players' and offensive rebounders' positions.

If there's any name you can attach to this move, it's that of AND1's Alimoe, whose frequent use of the crossover has left ballers from coast to coast looking lost. Although effective in most one-on-one situations, it's best employed in transition with a defender facing you up.

1. With your right hand, dribble the ball so that it lands roughly a fifteen inches in front of your left foot.

2. Lean forward as if to make a move towards the basket, but take the ball with your left hand and step back quickly. If performed smoothly, you’ll create a few feet of space between you and your defender.

Move type: Freestyle

Tip: Be careful not to bring your legs together too quickly so as to avoid the risk of injury to your knees.

Move Type: Game

Tip: This move is easier to carry out when the defender is turned slightly so that their side faces you.

While not much to look at in isolation, this crossover can be beautiful when pulled off cleanly. Former Georgia Tech guard Will Bynum has broken it out frequently over the years, often using it to create space while caught in traffic. Simple to pick up but hard to perfect, it's a valuable addition to anyone's repertoire.

1. Crouch down very low to the ground and dribble the ball rapidly behind your back.

2. Having done for this for a few seconds, cup the ball between your hand and wrist and flick it (from behind) over both you and the defender.

3. Pretend to continue dribbling until the defender straightens up, then run around them and retrieve the ball.

Move Type: Game

Tip: Put the ball directly in the middle of your defender's back to ensure that they can't reach it.

1. Dribble the ball between your legs to your right hand.

2. Cross the ball over to your left hand.

3. With the ball on your left, straighten up as if to cross it back.

4. Instead of dribbling the ball, simply drop it.

5. Lean forward and catch the ball with your right hand.

6. Pull it back to your right and continue from there.

Move Type: Game

Tip: The timing of the tap is essential. Hit the ball too early and your defender will close their legs. Hit it too late, and they might steal it from you.

If you want evidence of the efficacy of the move, you need look no further than Manu Ginobili, who found himself looking at thin air after Baron Davis turned him the wrong way with this one. Solid footwork and body control are required here, as well as good timing to ensure that the ball isn't exposed to the defender at any point.

Move Type: Game/Freestyle

Tip: If your shirt is too tight or too loose, it will be very difficult to complete this trick. Notes: Move invented by Rory "Disaster" Grace.

1. Dribble through your legs from back to front, from your left hand to your right.

2. Cuff the ball in your right hand and fake across your body in the motion of an underarm pass.

3. Do not release the ball, but pull it back across your body to your right side.

4. Without dribbling, swing it back to your left side.

5. Move your left leg forward and dribble the ball behind it (and through your legs).

6. Regain control of the ball with your right hand.

Move Type: Game

Tip: Make sure you have a good grip on the ball before attempting this move.

Start with your right hand. Fake a fast start towards the right. At this point your defender believes you are driving to the basket with your right hand.

Block your start spinning clockwise at 180 degrees while bouncing the ball in your back from your right hand to your left hand.

The basket should be in your back when you catch the ball in your left hand.

As soon as your ball is in your right hand, continue spinning the remaining 180 degrees while bringing the ball back to your right hand between your legs.

As soon as the ball is in your right hand, fake another fast start towards the right and bring the ball back to the left hand by bouncing it behind your back.

Move Type: Freestyle/Game

Tip: Jump forward very slightly in order to catch the ball more easily. Notes: Move performed by Rashaun Daniels in Just For Fun Volume One.

1. With your right hand, dribble the ball fifteen inches in front of your left foot so that it bounces fairly close to your defender.

2. As they lunge for it, reach across your body with your right hand and pull the ball back diagonally across your defender's body so that it bounces wide of your right side. This should leave them turned to their right while you slip easily past them on their left. Alternatively, you can dribble the ball between their legs (see the video for a demonstration).

Move Type: Game/Freestyle

Tip: Put a little backspin on the first dribble out of the spin move.

1. Dribble low and fast to draw the defence towards you.

2. When they crouch into the defensive position, straighten up and throw the ball gently off their forehead.

3. Catch the ball and continue dribbling