4 Signs Your Basketball Shooting Machine is Out of Date
by Adam Pan, on Feb 12, 2016 4:47:15 PM
It's been a long practice and you're relatively happy with how things went today. But you sometimes wonder to yourself if the equipment you use is out of date and how that might be affecting your team?
Take your basketball shooting machine for example. I mean, it gets the job done right? Even though the machine stopped rotating a few years back, you and your and AD talked about it and you haven't seen a lot of change in the basketball shooting machine market.
So why would you update...?
This question has plagued many and up until a few years ago there was not a good answer.
Today, here are 4 things to look out for:
1. It's not programmable.
In today's day and age it's becoming more and more important to utilize the technology available to you. Most of the new machines allow you to track your player's shots in practice. This tells you where the shooter is hot and where they need improvement. This is where programmability is essential in your shooting machine.
Many are familiar with the basic competitor's model. This machine will spray balls all around the perimeter with no purpose. Let's call this "dumb passing." With a programmable machine, you can select where on the court you want your player to work based on where he needs improvement, or where you have him taking the most shots in a game based on your offense. This is "smart passing" and smart training.
2. Your players are not shooting with a purpose.
We are big on this at Dr. Dish. We design every product with this in mind. Stop shooting just to shoot! If you require that your players get up shots on the machine, then you should make them shoot for a goal. A good way to do this is by programming the machine to keep going until your players make a certain number of shots (ex: 100, 200, 500). This option is built right into the Dr. Dish to help keep players accountable.
3. You're only training the outside game.
Did you know on average 64% of shots during a game are taken from the inside? That number suggests it's still very important to work on your 2 point shots. The Dr. Dish All-Star is the ONLY basketball shooting machine designed with a swivel net system to move away from the basket and take passes from the perimeter to the inside. With this feature, you can get meaningful reps with your post players and simulate game-like passes.
4. Players hate setting it up.
Do you wish your player would be more excited to use your shooting machine? Maybe they would use it more if it was lightweight and easy to set up. Better yet, what if the machine connected to the player's phone to track stats? They could then share their workout summary on social media. Dr. Dish is the machine players prefer - period.
At Dr. Dish, we're committed to providing coaches and players the absolute best technology at the best price to help accelerate player development at a faster rate than ever. See why these basketball shooting machine users switched to Dr. Dish!
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