Develop A DEADLY Floater With This Workout (Full Basketball Workout)

Ethan Khoza breaks down a floater progression starting with freestyle dribbling in the paint, then footwork drills for one-foot and two-foot floaters, mixed-call practice where a trainer shouts which shot to take, and defender simulation to build decision-making under pressure.
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Ethan Khoza
May 4, 2023
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Floaters are a must have shot for every player, especially for guards. So here's a full workout you can use to develop your floater. You can be anywhere, we'll say between.
This hash mark and that hash mark. So like this little rectangle here. So you're just going to be dribbling the ball around just like real casual. At some point, I'm gonna say go, and then you're just right. To a floater, we'll go all with.
The right hand here.
Kind of move yourself around the circle.
So the goal for this workout is to get reps without reps, but basically just means that we're trying to make every rep a little bit different. Because in a game, every single photo you're going to take is going to be a little bit different from the one you shot before. So right here, he's just freestyle dribbling all throughout the paint. At some point, I'm telling him to go, and then he's getting up into a floater as quick as he can. One foot, two foot, doesn't really matter here.
Go. I want to touch on the two footwork just so you can feel it. If I'm coming down, like with my strong hand here, I'm almost skipping to get to my two right there. It's almost like a drive stop so I can skip off that inside. And then that's where I'm going up with that floater right there, that dribble step there. One, two. And then you can get your shoulders off the drop and you have your dribble. And then 1, 2.
And here we are just kind of introing what that footwork's going to look like. Coming off of two feet, where we're getting to a little bit of a skip step and then up into our floater just to intro us that he's comfortable doing it. As we get farther along to the workout.
Let'S mix it up. Now you're going to get to your right every time, but just start or so here, whatever. So if it's in your left, then we'll just cross into it. And then if it's in your right, then you can just drop and jump. Okay, same thing.
So now he's freestyle dribbling, waiting for a go call. As soon as it happens, he's getting back towards his right, getting into that skip step forward and up with the floater.
Go. Similar how we were doing before. You can be anywhere, really, in the paint, just dribbling it. I'm going to give you either a one or a Two. If it's one, you're getting to floater off.
One. Two. Get it off. Two. So now we're just mixing up one foot and two foot floaters. He's freestyle dribbling, waiting for my call which will tell him to either go to a one foot floater as quick as he can or a two foot floater as quick as he can.
Good one. Good. You're just going to handle the ball anywhere in this half. So I don't want you to move though. So don't stay in the same spot. At some point I'm going to reach for it. Okay? Yeah. If you're getting me out of there, you're going to get downhill. Everything's a floater though. One foot, two foot doesn't matter.
So now we're working floaters coming off more of a game like look. So now we're adding in a reach which is going to tell him when he's going to attack. Which means we're also able to work in a little bit of ball handling work as well. So we can handle pressure and still be able to get downhill and get to his floater.
Same thing I'm reaching for, but I'll say one or two as you're going one.
So now I'm going to reach for it. But as he attacks, attacks. I'm gonna give them either a 1 or a 2 call which will tell them either 1 foot or 2 foot in the floater.
Oh yeah, we'll play off this reach. Now you can get to whatever.
So I'm.
But I'm gonna keep defending you though. Okay. So as soon as that reach happens, you're going whatever you gotta do to score. Floater, layup, shot, whatever.
So now we're starting off with the freestyle dribbling into the reach. But now he has full freedom to score however he can and I'm defending him the whole way. What you'll see though is that he's going to start to find opportunities to mix in that floater, which is exactly what we want. Because now he's finding ways to translate the work that we're doing into actual game situations where he has to actually make the decision to get to the floater after first perceiving that it's the right thing to do. This is how you really see game results with stuff that you work on. So make sure you give this workout a try. Drop a like subscribe if you're new and click the top link in the description below. To get my free leap rear score workout. I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace.
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