Ethan Khoza breaks down how NBA guards like CJ McCollum and Bradley Beal create space on contested shots using fades, drifts, and hip turns. The workout progresses from form shooting to paint jumpers to controlled fadeaway drills with precise footwork.
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July 29, 2020
20 made shots at the first hash mark, then 20 made shots at the second hash mark.
Step right foot, then left foot; as soon as the left foot hits, pop off the ground into the jump shot.
Start in a left-foot-forward lunge with ball in left hand; go into a 2-step with the left hand, pop off the left leg, land on the right leg, then push out into a left foot, right foot controlled fadeaway (jumping off two feet).
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As your competition gets better and better, you're going to be forced to make more and more contested shots. As you all know, the ability to hit wide open shots with nobody pressuring you is way different than the ability to hit shots with a hand in your face.
Today we're going to break down some.
Film of some of the best two guards in the NBA to see how they are able to hit these contested shots. And then we're going to take what we see in that film and we're going to go through a workout that's going to allow you to take those skills and implement them into your own.
Game so that you're able to start.
Hitting tough contested shots.
Now, the shots we're looking at today.
Are advanced shots, especially at the high school level. So this isn't something you can watch one time and go use it in your next game if you've never done it before. But as you continue to work on this more and more, you'll get better and better and you'll be harder and harder to guard. Let's get into it.
There's a few massive keys we can take from watching CG McCollum in this clip right here. You'll see him catch this ball and go into a fade or a drift on this jump shot, and obviously he has to do that as he's being contested, but it also serves a couple other purposes as well. This fade actually allows him to get into his jump shot quicker than he would if he went up with a normal jump shot. Because you're going to see right here when he catches this ball, he's actually not facing the basic completely when he starts his jump shot. As he goes up, he turns his hips and his shoulders in the air to get in line with the basket and then release to the basketball as opposed to doing this while he's still on the ground. Something that I'll tell my less experienced players is that you want to have your shooting hand foot slightly ahead of your non shooting hand foot when you go up for a jump shot. But as you see right here, CJ McCollum actually has the opposite with his left foot ahead of his right foot. But as you see as he goes up into that fadeaway, his body starts to turn and it ends up with his right hip ahead of his left hip, allowing his shoulder to be in line with the basket so he can flow right into that jump shot quickly and efficiently. The point of this being, if you.
Want to start hitting contested jump shots.
You'Re going to have to have this.
Type of fade away in your bag as well. This is for sure a more advanced shot, but once you get very comfortable, you don't need to worry about necessarily having your feet or your hips facing the right direction when you go up into your jump shot. Because when you turn in the air, you can get everything set and still have a nice fluid release into your shot.
Now that's how your fadeaway will look.
When you're going to your strong side. Let's talk about when you're driving to your weak hand side.
So for you right handed shooters, when.
You drive to your left and pull up for a contested shot, your fadeway is going to look a little bit different as you're going to your weak side. You'll probably actually find this to be an easier shot as your hips and your shoulder are already in a prime position to shoot the basketball as you have a slight turn to your left.
This slight turn is exactly what you want to have as a shooter. The reason that Bradley Beal is able.
To get the shot off is because of how quickly he goes up into his shot. As soon as his left foot hits, he's going to step right foot, then left foot. And as soon as that left foot hits, it's a pop right off the ground into his jump shot to catch his defender off guard. Gives a little bit of a lean or fade on it, which gives him enough room to get that shot off. All that stuff together makes this an impossible shot to block.
Like I mentioned, this type of shot against defense is a very, very advanced shot to make, especially at a high level against good defense. Right now we're going to get into a workout that's going to go through some of these shots so you can start to master them. Before we get started, I want you to make sure that when you're driving to your weak hand side and you're going into that fade away, don't do the Dirk Nowitzki leg kick right here.
I want you to do it just.
As you see Bradley Beal do it right here. Landing right foot, left foot and you're going to jump off of two feet into that fadeaway. Or if you're left handed, you'll go left foot, right foot, making sure you're jumping off of two feet. These aren't just fadeaways, these are controlled fadeaways. So you need to make sure that you're under control and you're jumping off of two feet every single time. Let's get into it. We're going to start off with some form shooting to get going. The shots we're shooting today are very difficult to shoot consistently. So you need to make sure that your form, first and foremost, is the consistent part. Without that foundation, your ability to make these more difficult shots is going to be very, very inconsistent. We're going to start off with form shots. At that first hash mark. After you make 20, you're going to back up and you're going to go to that second hash mark. You're going to make 20 more.
Now you're going to move back a.
Little bit, and we're going to go.
With some paint jump shots just to get our jump shot nice and warmed up. We're going to be going with all sorts of different looks from inside the paint. You could do a self toss. You can go off the Dr. You can go some sort of combo move to yourself. Just working on hitting those jump shots to get ourselves going.
Now we're going to start working on.
These controlled fades close to the basket. So you guys are really going to have to pay attention to the footwork right here. That's a crucial part to this drill. You're going to start in a lunge position with the ball in your left hand and your left foot forward. Then you're going to go £2 with your left hand. Then what you're going to do is you're going to pop off of that left leg. You're going to land on your right leg and you're going to push yourself out to the side into a left foot, right foot, controlled fade away.
After.
You finish the reps going that way, you're going to switch sides and go the opposite way again. Make sure you guys get this footwork down before you start going full speed. After you finish those, you're going to move back to that second hash mark and do the same exact thing.
Now we're going to move back to the free throw line, and we're going to shoot these jump shots off of a float dribble. Just again getting ourselves warmed up, being able to hit different shots off the dribble. Now we're going to add to that float dribble. We're going to take one more dribble getting downhill, and we're going to a nice, soft, controlled fade right here again, making sure we're jumping off two every single time. Now, coming off this float dribble, you're going to go with a quick between the legs into one more dribble. And then you're going to go into a nice controlled fade away right here. Next, we're going to start at the elbow and we're going to go with two pounds into a push cross, into a controlled fade towards the middle right here. So you see I'm starting with that ball. Two pounds going towards my middle, making sure I go into the nice controlled fade off of two feet. Next we're going to go with the same thing, except now we're going towards the outside elbow, two pounds into that push cross, into a nice controlled fade now going towards the baseline. I want all of you guys right now to go to the top link in my description below to get my free elite perimeter score workout where we're going to work on the skills that you're going to need to have if you want to be an elite scorer on the perimeter. Completely free. Go ahead and click it. I'll send it to you right now. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure you leave a like and subscribe if you're new and drop in the comments what you want to see next. That's it, guys. Peace. Oh yeah, and by the way, for those of you who've been asking, my elite ball handling program is going to be dropping very, very soon and it's going to be a massive game changer for a lot of you guys. So be on the lookout for that pen.
