This study was aimed at examining whether the effectiveness of self-talk is consistent across different moving conditions and shooting distances. The subjects that involved 13 male basketball players specialising in physical education in the college were recruited for this experiment. In this study, we adopted Wulf et al.'s (2005) Shooting Performance Rating Scale to calculate shooting accuracy. The scale assigned points according to where the basketball lands after shooting, using a five-point scoring system. The result found that in free throw, the score in self-talk group was 44.25 compared to the score of 40.73 in the non self-talk task (P<.001). In spot shooting of two-point task, the score in the self-talk group was 41.60 (3.96), whilst it was 38.13 in the non self-talk task (P<.001); for three-point task, the score was 36.69 in the self-talk group whereas it was 33.92 (P=.005) in the non self-talk group. In moving shooting of two-point task, the score in self-talk group was 37.26, whilst it was 37.88 in the non self-talk task (P=.446); for three-point task, the score was 33.51 in the self-talk group, whereas it was 33.46 (P=.952) in the non self talk group. It revealed that self-talk's effect on basketball shooting performance was predominantly contingent on whether the task was single or dual-task oriented as opposed to directly correlated to distance. Furthermore, self-talk had a positive effect on the shooting of a single motor task, whilst it did not improve the accuracy of the shooting integrated with a movement of manoeuvring the ball.