Imagine this… you or a player on your team struggles to make free throws. You make about 55% of your free throws and because of that the coach doesn’t trust you to make shots in games.
You get to play some, but not a lot. You are known for defence, and that’s about it.
Nothing is going to change unless you do.
One of the years I worked with an NBA team we had an athletic big man that didn’t play many minutes. He had played most of his first couple of years out of college in the D-League and had bounced around a couple of different teams in the NBA, never really playing too much. We started playing him some small minutes, but he didn’t really have much of an offensive game, and only shot in the mid-50’s from the free throw line.
At the beginning of one off-season I taught him 3 drills that I wanted him doing all summer. While that wasn’t a perfect world, it would at least give him a head start when we got back for training camp and would see each other consistently again. For 4 days, we did the 3 drills over and over again. I wanted to make sure he know how to do the drills and why he was doing them, and what to focus on while doing them. At the end of the 4 days I asked him to send me video of the drills as often as he could.
I’ll be honest. I wasn’t expecting him to ever do the drills. I was prepared for him to come back for training camp with the exact same habits. I was hoping he would move his set point from over his head, to over his nose, but I wasn’t confident he would put in the time by himself. See, most players think that the coaches change them. The reality is, the coaches make suggestions and the players change themselves. I needed this player to realize that he would need to make the change.
A couple of weeks later I got video in a text from the big man. He was doing the drills and doing them well. I gave him a little feedback, but mostly he was on track.
A few weeks later, more video. Still doing the drills and now getting really good at them.
He came back for training camp and I was shocked to see a totally rebuilt shot. He had taken every piece of feedback to heart and had made the changes himself with very little guidance.
That season he started to get 12-15 minutes a game. He was making 75% of his free throws. He was having 3 point contests with coaches and winning, to the point that the coaches started discussing if he should be shooting 3s in games. The next season he was shooting 3s, and making them at a high rate.
He committed to changing mechanics that were holding him back. He forced himself to get better. Now he starts in the NBA. He makes millions of dollars. He’ll play in the NBA for 15 years.
Now image what that kind of improvement would look like for you? What if you improved so much you got another 12 minutes a game? Or doubled your points per game?
Would you want the same drills he did? If you struggle with your ARC, I can give you same program he did. The first drills, all the tips, all the progressions. 45 videos in all.
Then you just have to do the work like that player did.
