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[QUOTE="Gutter King, post: 5193650, member: 4789"]
I agree with promoting shooting threes, and I hear A LOT of random people against this...but in reality, they need to build strength so that when they attempt other shots there's less moving parts.  This is very important for developing a clean shot early IMO.

You'll have to teach them form simultaneously with building strength, you can't have one without the other.  Boys it's less difficult because they have more strength, but I open the shooting stage of practice with three three pointers each, the first of which the highest they can get it.  You want to break them from doing the two handed shove, and build their muscle memory with how the trajectory should be.  This also allows them to calibrate a little easier.

Otherwise, QDOGs post is probably the best advice in the thread.  Just simple effective stuff.  Something else to do is if you do have a player willing to drive and shoot, don't forget to instruct another agressive player to crash the weakside glass.  7th/8th grade is mostly about garbage scoring, this is a very simple way to score two or three more baskets a game.
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