A short coaching clip (YouTube) by Ethan Khoza advising basketball players to target increased paint touches—e.g., 2–3 per quarter—to both score more (layups, fouls) and create plays for teammates via kick-outs when help defense arrives. The speaker reframes a scoring-first mindset into a playmaking goal focused on attacking the paint consistently.
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Your goal needs to go from, well, I got to score this amount of points or that amount of points or this. You got to start thinking, okay, I got to get two paint touches each quarter. And what this will lead to is sometimes when you get to the paint, you get a paint touch. You're going to be able to shoot it and you're going to get a layup, you're going to get fouled or whatever. But a lot of times when you get to the paint, someone's going to draw in on you, you're going to have help in there, and then you're going to kick out and create for your teammates. Okay, so not only are you talking about scoring here, but just making you more valuable in terms of creat creating plays for your teammates. You have to get more paint touches. So if that's not something you've thought about, just giving yourself a challenge of saying, hey, I gotta get three paint touches per quarter. And just watch how many more points you score, how many more plays you create for your teammates. When you make that, your goal of getting to the paint drawing in the defense, and if they don't come in, lay up or foul, and if they do, you can kick it out.
