Bad Passes

Anyone that has played basketball has been in practice and heard their coach yell, "Throw good passes." You hear this all the time when you and your teammates are going through shooting drills. Usually no one is guarding the passer or the shooter so there should be good passes. But is that game like? How many times in a game is a shooter given a perfect or near perfect pass coming around a screen or moving to an open spot. This perfect pass becomes harder when you are being pressured the full length of the floor. Now, you want to be able to make the pass when you are pressured so your teammate can shoot in one smooth fluid motion, but that doesn't always happen. So as a shooter what can you do about this? My answer is spend time shooting off bad passes. I suggest spending about 10 minutes at the end of a shooting workout. Nothing special or fancy, just coming around a screen and catching a bad pass. Or stepping into a shot off a bad pass. This can even be done throughout the shooting workout or practice. If you are shooting 10 shots off a fade screen then maybe one or two of the passes thrown should be bad passes. I suggest, if all possible, for the coaches or managers to make the passes. If there are not enough coaches or managers then the drill should be done after practice with the coach and a few of the players. I do not believe players should practice throwing bad passes to teammates. The bad passes should be catchable, but the shooter may have to jump, bend low, reach behind, etc to catch the ball. This will teach the shooter how to catch bad passes and still be able to shoot in rhythm. Catching a few bad passes in practice will help prepare the shooter for more game like situations