You Need To Do THESE 2 Things In All Your Shooting Workouts...

This video is going to give you the exact two steps you need to take if you want to become a really high level shooter. If you're a player who's constantly working hard, getting in the gym and getting hundreds of shots up, yet you still aren't as good of a shooter as you think that you should be or that you want to be, this video is going to give you the exact reason why, and I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do in order to get to the level that you want to get to. The problem with a lot of players and how they train shooting is that they don't train to actually be successful in real games. Which is why you, you can walk in and see them shoot in an empty gym by themselves and look really good, but you put them on a court in a five on five setting and all of a sudden they fade into the background and all that work is basically for nothing. That's a super frustrating place to be. I've been there as a player. I see it happen all the time with players that I coach and players that I train. So my goal of this video is to help you understand how to translate the work that you're doing, the shooting reps that you're getting in, how to make that transfer into game success. And there's really two things, two principles that you need to understand, that if you apply them to all of your workouts, you're going to become a great shooter. Let's get into it now. The first thing that we want to understand when it comes to getting better as a shooter, this applies to every area of basketball, but specifically talking about shooting is that we have to define what getting better actually means. And it's very simple. We can imagine what we are as a player as like a line here, okay? And if you're watching this on YouTube, you can kind of see how I have my hands just like, this is our capacity, okay? In order to get better, we need to find ways to expand this capacity so that we're capable of doing more. What that would look like means that maybe on a great day you can make three threes in a game because this is your capacity. How do we get it so that on a great day you could make four and then five and then six and substitute that for any numbers that you want to. But the point being, we need to find ways to take our capacity and force it to expand. And I use the word force because that's truly how it works. If you go into the gym and all you do is work on stuff that you're comfortable doing and so that you're already able to do. You're never going to force your capacity to expand. So you're always going to be the same player. Meaning you're going to put in all this work. You're going to shoot hundreds of shots every day. You're going to look around and say, oh, I'm working harder than that person and that person. And you're going to wonder, why am I not getting better? Or why are they outperforming me? And it's because you're not forcing yourself to expand your capacity so you're not really getting better. Now the way that we do this is through a method called DL training. DL training stands for differential learning training. And essentially it's the way that we force ourselves to improve at a certain skill. In this case, shooting. Now, getting back into what I was saying, when it comes to expanding our capacity to perform. So how do we expand that? Well, we do this by expanding our movement solutions. All that that means is that think about getting the ball into the basket is the problem that we need to solve. We shoot the ball in order to solve that problem. Right? Right. Problem is I need to score a bucket. Because basketball is about whichever team scores most points. That's the problem. How do we score? The solution is make the shot. Okay, so the more solutions that we have to that problem, the better we're going to be and the bigger your capacity is going to be to perform. Meaning if you can make a free throw, that's a, that's one solution to a problem. Now all of a sudden, if you can also make a three point shot, now you have even more solutions to that problem. And then all of a sudden you can make a mid range pull up. Now you have another solution. Okay, think about it this way too. If you can make a shot, let's just take captain shoot threes, right? You can make a shot coming off of a like a slide, right? A slide to your left. You can make that three. And you can also make a standstill three. And you can also make A3 where you're sprinting in transition. And you can also make a three where you're backpedaling. All of a sudden you have different movement solutions to, for, for the same problem. You're going to be a lot better as a shooter than a person who can only make a standstill catch and shoot three. Likewise, we can think of if you can also make a three when someone throws you a not perfect pass, all of A sudden, you're going to be a better shooter than somebody who can Only make a 3 when the pass is perfect to them. Okay? So going back to DL training, differential learning, what we want to do to become a better shooter is we want to increase our solutions, our movement solutions. And so we're gonna do this by exploring different ways of accomplishing the same thing. Before I get into the specifics of how this might look, the. The mindset that we need to have with this and that I say to my players all the time is that everyone's heard the 10,000 reps rule, right? Where everyone's like, okay, you know, we want to get 10,000 reps of somebody to become great at it or sometimes talk, you know, referred to as 10,000 hours. And where I would say when it comes to shooting is, is that you almost want to flip the way you think about it and say, hey, can I get 10,000 variations of the same shot? If I can do that, that means that I explored so many different movement solutions to the same problem, and I'm going to be way better than somebody who's only. Who only has one solution to any given problem. Because then as soon as one thing is off, I'm a little tired, or the pass wasn't great, or the defender closing out, or I'm a little off balance, or I don't catch the ball super clean, next thing you know, you're going to miss the shot. But the person who's worked through 10,000 variations where their hands are different and their feet are a little off and the pass isn't great, and they may be a little rushed, they're going to be prepared for any problem that they face, because they're going to have a solution for that exact problem right there. So, for example, if we work on shooting off of one leg, right, we're shooting threes off of one leg. We're going to be so much more prepared to make shots in games when you're a little bit off balance because. Because you've worked on being really off balance because you're shooting off of one leg. That's just an example. We're going to dive into some more examples of what that might look like. So types of differential learning shooting, right? When I just refer to as DL shooting. One of the ways that we start off all of our workouts with my team is we. We. We call it DL shooting. But the rule is you have to shoot six shots, and it can be anything but your normal shot. So generally, we'll partner up and we'll say, okay, you're going to shoot six shots. Make or miss, you're going to shoot six, and your partner is going to go. You're going to go for three sets of that. And the only rule is that the shot can be anything but normal. So your feet can be a little different, your hand placement could be a little different. The speed of your shot can be different. You can go off of one leg. You can, you know, be facing a weird direction when you shoot. It just can't be your normal shot. You're still going to shoot it with your. Your shooting hand, like, like normal. That's not going to change because we want to be still representative of the game in a way, but we want to find ways to just have no pressure, just explore different moving patterns. Okay. And we want to be super creative with how we get to that right there. So what this can look like is we can go off of one leg kind of like I mentioned, we can use, like, weird footwork where our feet are staggered or maybe really wide or really narrow or, you know, crossed over, whatever. We can work on a coming off of like a bad pass or, you know, you can just kind of drop it to yourself and pick it up low or bounce it and pick it up high. We can go with a different shot path to maybe bring up the left side of your body on the way up or the right side or the middle, whatever. Maybe you don't dip the ball, you just keep it really high when you catch it the whole time. We can go off of ball wraps. We're going to kind of wrap the ball around our waist or whatever. We can go off of. We can touch the floor with the ball. It's one I really love to do as well. Just exaggerating like the. The length of our shot path and where the ball starting from. And obviously working on, like, if we get a really low pass as well, we can work on different hand placement, which is a really, really good one as well, where, okay, maybe we catch the ball and our hands are a little wide or they're a little narrow. And now we're working on being able to make it when our hands aren't placed perfectly, which happens actually a lot. We can also work on shooting really fast, shooting really slow. Okay, so shooting really fast for the times when a defender is closing out to you or the clock's running out, and shooting really slow for those moments where you have a ton of time. And the goal is to become an expert at the skill, which is shooting right and we do that by expanding our solution base as much as possible. Somebody who works on all these things that I just mentioned here. They're going to be prepared for anything that comes their way and they're still going to be able to make the shot because guess what? They've worked on all these, all these imperfect situations where their hands aren't right, their feet aren't right, they're off balance, the momentum of the ball is coming up where the ball path is different, they're being rushed, whatever the, they're going to be able to be the shot anyway. And that's how you become an elite shooter. One of the examples that I use a lot with my players is I talk about Jaylen Brown in the playoffs against the Indiana Pacers where he made that, that three at the end of regulation and he was getting closed out on, I think it was. Siakin was closing out on him and he brought the ball up the left side of his body and still nailed the shot right where it was imperfect. He had to bring the ball up a different shot path. At the end of the day, you, you have to make the shot. You get the job done or you don't get the job done. And there's no excuse for, oh, well, you know, it was contested or whatever. Like, no, he gets paid 300 and whatever million dollars because he's able to do that. And so we want to train so that we're able in those situations to get the job done by any means necessary. And that's what it takes to become a great shooter. So that's the first part of becoming great as a shooter is adding this into your workouts. What I would say is take some of the stuff you've seen on the screen so far or, you know, some of that I've mentioned and start off your workouts. You, you can say to yourself, okay, I'm going to go five sets of six shots. Or if it's just you by yourself, maybe you say, I'm going to go 30 shots here where it can be anything but normal. And 30 doesn't seem like a lot. You can do less than that. We usually, like I said, we do 18 shots at the beginning of our team workouts of this sort of stuff. But we do it every single day. So those reps add up over time. So if you do that every day, all of a sudden you might be getting hundreds of reps a week of exploring different movement solutions so that you're going to be way more prepared to make those shots in games when Imperfections happen, which case you didn't know is going to happen quite often. Okay, so really simple way to add this into your workouts. And every single player should be doing. I don't care if you're the best shooter in the world or the worst shooter in the world, you should be finding opportunities to do this. So that's the first thing. The second thing that you need to do in order to become a great shooter and to make sure that your, your shooting workouts translate into in game success is pressure reps. Adding pressure reps to your shooting workouts. And one of the reasons that players don't perform well in games, they might be great shooters in practice or in workouts, but they can't do it consistently when the game gets here is because the stakes are higher. One of the things that the analogies that I've used before is imagine that you have a balance beam on the ground, right? And just, just on the ground, just think about it like being in your front yard, okay? You got a 10 foot long balance beam and someone says, hey, I'll give you $100 if you walk across this balance beam. Chances are you're going to go out and at least try. You know, maybe you, you're really, you really have no balance, right? And maybe you fall off, but whatever, you don't get a hundred dollars. But ten foot long balance beam, you go outside and right in your front yard, you just walk across it. Now imagine that same person says, hey, I'm going to raise this balance beam 10ft in the air. Now what? $100, you go across it. You know, maybe you try it. If you feel really confident in your balance, maybe you don't, if you don't feel very confident in your balance, but you know that number's gonna be a little bit different. And then now imagine that, you know, they say, hey, we're gonna put this balance beam 100 stories in the air. And now are you willing to try it? And I know I won't. There's no chance I'm doing that. And you probably wouldn't do it either. That's really what it comes down to. We have to look at it, say, hey, end of the day, the, the circumstance was different, the pressure was different, but the challenge was the same thing. Okay. On the ground though, it felt so much easier because the stakes for failing are non existent. Just like you know, if you're shooting in an empty gym by yourself, there is no stake, there's nothing at stake where you can fail. And doesn't matter. There's no scoreboard, there's no coaches, there's no referees, there's no fans, whatever. You just shoot it again. In a game, though, everything matters, right? There's so much more pressure going into it, and it's almost like practice is that situation where the balance moves on the ground and the games where the. All of a sudden the, you know, the balance beam is either 10ft in the air or 10 stories in the air, right? And there's also way more riding on each shot. So we need to make sure that we're prepared to handle the difference in pressure that we're going to face between practice and games. And we need to make sure that our practice is. Has a lot of pressure involved so that we're prepared to shoot despite that right there. So we need to put ourselves in those situations. And a few ways to do it is really, really simple. Really what it comes down to is kind of adjusting how you do your, like, your sets or your reps for your drills. This might not be for every drill, right. But at least for a few, I think it's a good idea to kind of approach it this way. So one of the ways that I love to do it is just super simple. We'll go for a certain amount of makes in a row. So maybe instead of going five spots, five shots or five spots, five makes, we go, okay, at each spot, we've got to make three in a row. So now all of a sudden you make your first shot, you make your second shot. Well, now there's a lot of pressure on this next shot because if you miss it, you're back to zero. And now we can start to add in pressure to our shooting, which is going to translate much more to the game where there's pressure on every shot because you're down to. Or you're worried about your playing time, or, you know, you've got someone in the. In the. In the. In the crowd watching you that you want to, you know, show out for whatever there's pressure, and we can stimulate it that way. Super simple way to do it. Just changing going from straight makes to makes in a row is a really great way to do that. Another way that I love doing because it builds a great mentality that I'll explain in a second here is we have to go for a certain number without missing two shots in a row. So, for example, we're at. We're doing the five spots again, but instead of five makes, we have to make six shots without missing two in a row. So you shoot your first one, you make it. You shoot your second when you make it, you shoot your third when you miss it. As long as you make the next shot, you keep going. So you shoot your next one. Boom, you're at three makes, okay, but you missed that one. You're back to zero. So now what that does is, again, it puts pressure on you to not miss two in a row. But it also builds a mindset of I don't miss two shots in a row or I miss my first shot, I refocus, and I make the second shot. Which will pay off for you big time in games, right? Having that mindset, having that mentality, that experience of missing a shot, refocusing right away and making your next one so we don't spiral out of control, right? That's a really, really great way for us to build a mindset of a great shooter is by adjusting our drills that way too. So certain amount of makes without missing two in a row. One of my favorite ways to add pressure to shooting drills, another way is just make it simple, go, you know, blank for blank. So you got to go 4 for 6 at this spot. And great way to add pressure. Great way to add a certain goal that you have to meet right there. And then one of the other ways that I love to do this is we have to make a certain shot after, like, whatever the drill is. So, for example, we'll be doing a drill. Maybe we're doing like pull ups and then range. And we say, okay, we got to make two pull ups in a row, and. And then you got to make a catch and shoot three after that for that to count. And so we can do it that way. And that really adds a lot of pressure to that catch and shoot three. Where it says, okay, I completed the drill, but in order for the drill to count, I now have to make that catch and shoot three at the end. So we put a ton of pressure on that shot right there. Something I do with my, with my players all the time. And it can be as simple as, like, we look at the DL shooting that we were talking about earlier. Maybe we go with the ball wrap shooting. And we say, okay, you got to make two shots in a row doing the ball wraps. And then if you do that, if you make two in a row, then I'm going to pass you the ball, you're going to shoot a normal catch and shoot three. And then in order for that set to count, you got to make that three. You can go stand still or you can move into These, but it's going to be a bad pass. Just catch it. Shoot. You have to wrap it right now. Just catch it. Shoot it. Just new spot every time. We're going to go same thing. Sets of two. At least two for three with a made normal one if we get that. Okay, reset. Dude, got one. Oh yeah. Normal shot, one set. A lot of pressure riding on those shots now. Even on the easy catch and shoot, there's pressure on it makes it more game like, much more likely to translate to in game success. So if you add those two things to your shooting workouts, you're going to become a way better shooter, it's going to transfer, is going to translate to way more in game success for you. And every single player should be doing this sort of stuff. If you start to do this. I know that like the DL shooting, it's stuff that's starting to pick up a little bit, but most players don't do this stuff. Right. When I first started doing this with different players that they're like, what are we doing right now? And I explained to them like, hey, this is why we're doing that. And it's when they hear that, it makes complete sense, right? So this is a great way to get a leg up on everybody else. Because most players aren't doing this. They're sticking to what they're comfortable doing, what's already in their comfort zone and they're not expanding their capacity. Right. So if you want to do that, you need to find ways to challenge yourself and this is how you do it. 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