Falling Short

My jumper is always on line and appear to be going in but falls short most of the time. What can I do to be more consistent?

Two possibilities:

Either (1) your body/leg power, what I call Up Force, is too little, or (2) you are aiming too high for the amount of energy you are getting from that power source. The height you chose was not appropriate.

Shooting with my method is a dance between power and height. Since I advocate the release be at the same speed and force every time, and since the leg drive energy is changing from jumper to jumper, something else has to change, and that is the height or angle of the shot.

PLAY WITH HEIGHT...

Practice shooting from one spot, say 15 feet away, and vary the Up Force and vary the arch. Shoot with all kinds of varying leg power, from tiny to massive. You will quickly learn how to adjust this last-second variable and your shots will start to find the bottom of the net regularly. Varying arch is just an instinctive thing. Make sure you have enough leg energy to get the ball there easily, and then you can adjust up or down as required to find the center of the target. If your leg power is minimized, then you will be shooting flat and hitting short is always a possibility. Up the leg energy and you will have more possibilities.