
That give him a better understanding of what works and what doesn’t. However what often gets ignored is that middle phase when the ball is in the air and – Steph does this more than any other shooter that i’ve seen – is he tracks the ball with his eyes after his release and that provides even more information and data points about his overall sequence and his movement. Oftentimes you’ll hear people say you know the shot felt good as it was leaving my hand and that’s because based off doing those thousands and thousands of reps again as you’ve accumulated data points and built out that database to now be able to predict what’s going to happen – feedforward. Second most analyzed point is that first phase – the shot itself. All those things provide data points as feedback. The two phases that are normally most analyzed are the last phase the outcome – did the ball go in the net or, more detailed, was it short was it long was it left versus right and then picking up those patterns. There’s two specific types of learning – feedback and also feed forwardįeedback is more reactive – it’s based on what’s already happened and then correcting it whereas feed forward is more of a predictive model.

ĭuring each of these sequences the brain is interpreting what’s going on and trying to learn from that sequence. Then you have that period where the object is in air towards the target and then lastly you have when it reaches that target. In all of these, there’s three key phases.įirst is that initial sequence the jump shot. In soccer (football), it’s the kicker hitting the ball towards a target. In marksmanship, it’s the individual and the gun with the bullet towards a literal target. In the NFL, it’s the quarterback throwing the ball to a receiver. You have the individual – in this case Steph as the shooter – hurtling an object – the basketball – at a target – the basket.

To understand that let’s first break down what shooting is at its core. While the ball’s in the air knowing full well that the ball will be going in.

Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry is inarguably the greatest shooter of all time and he’s famously now doing this no look shot where he turns his back Raj, DPT breaks it down from a sports science perspective
