A coached basketball shooting workout led by Ethan Khoza focused on challenging an elite shooter to expand game-ready capacity by increasing difficulty and pressure. Drills include artificially constrained spot-up variations (wrap-around waist, hands locked behind back, late hands, bad passes), pivot/crowded-space catch-and-shoot work, dribble-move shot creation with the coach forcing specific looks, and pressure sequences requiring consecutive makes without two misses.
Questions this video answers
Make three shots without missing two in a row.
Make eight shots without missing two in a row.
From all five spots.
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So right here I'm going to take you through a shooting workout with one of the elite shooters that I work with. If you're a good or great shooter, then the goal of your shooting drill should be to expand your capacity to perform. And we can only do this by challenging ourselves. So as you'll see throughout this, the goal of these drills is to challenge her as much as possible. And by doing this, every other shot that she'll see in the game is going to seem so much easier. So if you're a player watching this, grab a friend or a teammate or someone who will help you out and go get better. Let's get into it.
Okay, we're making it harder now. Same shots. Before you shoot it, you have to wrap the ball around your waist, whichever one it is. So I'm here with it there first, then go up with it on all of them.
So here we are going through a four shot series. In order to make it more difficult to make those shots, I'm forcing her to wrap the ball around her waist before she's allowed to shoot it. Now, obviously it's not something you would do in a game, but this is a way to artificially make it more difficult to increase our capacity to put the ball in the basket.
Oh, yeah, you're gonna keep your hands behind your back and they've got to be like locked like that. Starting off like that, I'm gonna pass it to you. You're waiting for the last possible second to get your hands up for it as long as you can wait.
So right here we're taking normal spot up shots and we're adjusting them so that we're able to work on different quality qualities that translate to the game. The first thing is being able to get your hands ready fast and then being able to shoot when it's unclean, catch as well when you get your hands up late, and then being able to do both of those things when it's a bad pass to pass to the left, to the right, high, low, fast, slow, being adaptable and able to make the shot regardless of the pass. And then on top of that, we add a pressure element to this where she's got to make three shots without missing two in a row. So now she's got to be able to handle all of that and deal with the pressure.
So I'll give you the ball. You're just starting right there. You can pivot here, you can move the ball, whatever. I'm just gonna be somewhere in this space here. You just got to get A catch and shoot off, though, only. Only rule however you do that is on you. You just can't put the ball to ground.
I'm there.
You might as well adjust where that.
Now we're working on being able to shoot at a different footworks off the catch. I'm crowding her space, providing pressure. She can't put the ball on the ground. All she's allowed to do is pivot and change her shot path in order to get the shot off. So this forces adaptability and problem solving when it comes to the defense forcing something or taking something away. Now we're doing a similar variation of this where I'm really emphasizing the side that I'm closing out from. So again, forcing variations in her shot path, the speed she has to get the ball fall off at, I can continue to challenge her in terms of how difficult each shot is. And now right here, we're working all shots off of the dribble. So I'm using those two shoes as our boundaries in terms of where the gap help is. She's forced to create a shot right here, either in the mid range or from three. And as the defender right here, most of the time, I'm choosing to force a look on her. So I might want her to get to a specific type of shot, so I may force that. I may want her to get to a shot in the mid range or a shot from the three so I can force that again really allows us to target specific sorts of shots. Every shot is going to be a little bit different. And you'll notice too that we're not just working on shooting here, but working on ball handling. We're working on being able to change pace and being able to be creative with the basketball. And much like we've been doing for the rest of the workout, we're working on being able to hit different sorts of shots one after the other. And right here, going back with those pressure makes. So she's going to make three shots without missing two in a row. So now again, each shot means a lot more because there's weight on each miss. And then I always like to end with just getting reps up. And there's a lot of ways that you can do this. Right here we're sticking with that pressure theme. And she has to make eight shots without missing two in a row. So right here you see her make eight in a row. This is a great way for us to be able to get up purposeful reps where we have to continue to shoot despite fight the pressure. Now you can adjust the amount of makes necessary for you specifically, but we went eight makes, about missing two in a row from all five spots and then we did some additional shots after. But again, the way you get reps up is all up to you. If you guys enjoyed this workout, make sure you drop a like subscribe drop a comment down below. I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace.
