Ethan Khoza presents a basketball shooting drill he calls "five nine shooting" that makes five-spot three-point shooting more game-like by requiring progressive make targets at each spot (9→8→7→6→5) with a reset after two consecutive misses. He explains pass-type variations per spot (high, bad, side, low, normal), competitive timing, and scaling options, and briefly promotes his full Elite Shooter program.
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Shooting is the most important skill in basketball, but it's probably also the most difficult skill to become great at. Why is that? It's because so many different things go into making a shot. The pass you receive, the closeout the defender gives you, how fast your momentum is taking you, where you are on the floor, how tired you are, and probably a dozen other things. So our shooting drills need to prepare us for this variability if we want to become great at shooting. So in my opinion, this is the ultimate way to do five spot shooting. I'm not the biggest fan of normal stationary spot shooting and workouts. If your goal is to improve your shot past a certain point, that type of shooting just becomes too easy. It doesn't mimic any of the demands of the game. And if it's what you spend most of your time doing, you're likely going to struggle to make shots in real game. So here's a way to adjust your spot up shooting so that it becomes more challenging and game like, and prepares you much better to make in game shots. We call this five nine shooting. Here are the rules. You're going to shoot threes at all five spots. At the first spot, you have to make nine shots without missing two shots in a row in order to move on to the next spot. If you miss two in a row, you go back to zero at that spot. At the next spot, you need to make eight without missing two in a row. Then seven at the next spot, then six, then five at the last spot in order to add another level of challenge to it. We also shoot certain types of shots at each spot. Today we went high passes at the first spot, bad passes at the second spot, side passes from the third spot, low passes from the fourth spot, and normal passes at the last spot. We also make it competitive by trying to beat our best time every day that we do. This record is around five minutes. You can give yourself a time limit if you want, or if you have a partner. You guys can see you can finish faster. You can adjust the amount of makes needed at each spot. If this is too hard or too easy, you can also choose to start at 5 and go to 9 instead. And if you want more shooting work that's going to help prepare you to make real shots and games at a high level. Then make sure you check out the Elite Shooter system, which is my full shooting program. That'll be linked down below if you're interested. So give this workout a try and let me know down in the comments below how quickly you get it done. Drop a like and subscribe if you're new. I'll talk to you soon. Peace.
