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- What's up GQ. This is Chris Matthews.
A lot of you might know me as lethal shooter.
The shooting coach, [upbeat music]
[upbeat music continues] Bobby port is the tape.
His car were polled. Skylar Diggins,
Candace Parker, Travis Barker, [chuckles]
straight future G Herbo.
The list goes on.
Just anybody that loves the game of basketball.
I'm willing to train them.
Everybody that we named their shooting percentage
went up while I was training them.
I just feel like numbers don't lie.
You want to mass it audit shooting.
You have to take the your every single day
to shoot the ball.
You just can't watch TV and say,
I want to be a shooter.
You have to get muscle memory,
get your reps, get your footwear,
get your hand placement.
So I think anybody and everybody
can be a shooter.
It takes you understanding that what
you did before, it didn't work.
And once you understand that didn't work
and you trust me, you will win.
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The main points that I look forward to
artists shooting before training the players,
how they catch the ball,
how's their foot work.
How do they shoot when they're tired?
What's their go-to move.
What move can't they do?
How did they shoot after a time out
when the coach just literally lit into them?
how do they shoot when the crowd is against them?
How do they shoot at home?
Some people,
if you put a tall defender in front of them,
they can't shoot.
So when I train against you, you know what?
I'm going to hire somebody to six foot, 10,
close out of your arm,
if you're tall and you can't shoot
against somebody shorter,
I'm going to hire somebody that's not tall
as you to close out. [slow upbeat music fading]
I watched every single thing that
the person does,
because if you miss that one thing,
that's taking their shooting percentage
down as a trainer, as a coach,
you failed that person.
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It doesn't matter how good you shoot.
You need somebody to help you.
Tiger woods has a coach,
and Steph Curry has a coach.
Nobody's good enough to not have somebody
teach them or critique him,
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Buddy Hield this summer, he's a great example.
He's shooting a pill off the ball this year,
and when I was training him the first day,
he's like testing me. He was like,
"what's up? What you see wrong in my jump shot?"
And I was like, "well, I see this."
He was like, "no, you're not right."
And I was like, "you shoot your way,
and they will shoot my way. If your way wins,
we'll keep it your way."
And then when he was doing my way, he was like,
"all right, all right, tell me everything."
If you could let them see how beneficial
it is to work on their craft and get better,
that's what my life was all about.
Danny green hired me to be a shooting coach.
Last year, he was number one NBA, last year.
I was only with Danny green for a few weeks,
but he allowed me to change some certain things
with his hands, the bottom half of his body,
shooters like Buddy and Danny,
who were already at least shooters,
they don't come in saying,
"this is what I'm doing wrong."
They come in and say,
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My workouts aren't the same for everybody.
It's depends on who the person is.
When I was with Bobby porters, I said,
"hold up, man, this guy has the potential to be
one of the top shooters,"
that was telling Bobby this,
because I really believed in his
jump shot and that my main goal, I said,
"I'm going to make you top 10 in
the NBA and shooting."
And he was laughing at me.
"Yay, yay, yay, whatever let's get out of here,
let's get something to eat."
And then he finished top three.
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and he doesn't have the
ideal shot. He has a wide base.
He has a slight hitch in the shot,
but it's consistent.
It's perfect for his body type, you know,
a lot of people have to understand your
body type isn't going to be the same
as Susan's body type.
And once we figure out what's consistent for
you in that melody for your body,
we want to continue to keep that.
He's a big guy, he's like six, 10.
I changed the way that he was on his feet,
because if you have bad balance on your feet,
you're not going to have a consistent jump shot.
I changed the way that he was
to catch the basketball,
because the way that he was catching it,
he couldn't get to a quick rhythm that
I needed for him to have a consistent jump shot.
I changed how low he took the basketball.
Some players,
they can go really low with the ball,
but everybody has different body types.
The way you catch the basketball can
determine if you shoot
45% from three or 35%,
as soon as your hand touches it,
everything goes to your brain and
if you're not catching something the right way,
your brain can't really get that repetition
and that jazz, and with my clients,
I teach them when they catch it to what
the feel for the shooting,
some people, when they catch it,
they catch it hard. You know, as a shooter,
you want to catch it, but you don't want to
have so much force, you know,
because how can you catch somebody with
so much force that feels so soft.
I've had clients before that,
when they catch the ball, you can hear it
like, [sound of basketball being caught]
and it's like, how can you shoot the basketball
being so rough?
You gotta be gentle with her.
I might be wrong,
but I never had a client top three in the NBA
in three point percentage.
That was just a testament of how good he shoots,
and importantly,
how much work he puts in because
people don't realize professional athletes,
their entire day is booked,
and for them to take the time at 10 o'clock at
night and 11 o'clock at night, midnight to shoot,
which Bobby was doing last year in the playoffs,
they would have practice.
He would shoot late at night,
wake up to play the next day,
and that was just a testament of
how hard he wanted to be a great shooter.
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People say, how come you don't take time to
train with normal people.
I train normal people every single day.
It's just, when I train in celebrity,
it goes viral. [catchy upbeat music fading]
I was in Atlanta helping Dwight Howard
in 21 Savage hippie up,
and I was just like, "you know what?
I'm going to train 21 Savage."
We trained, I think at midnight [laughs],
it was crazy midnight,
and then when I posted that all these
other rappers started hitting me up like,
"Yo, I didn't even know you train rappers,
like I would have been hit you.
Then all these other celebrities started
hitting me up. you know, Michael B. Jordan,
Chris brown, 2 ChainZ, Little Yachty,
Machine Gun Kelly, that's my guy.
Machine Gun Kelly loves basketball.
He's a Cleveland guy,
he grew up watching basketball and it's easy
to train people who are celebrities that love the game,
but most importantly, they want to learn.
People don't realize Machine Gun Kelly's really tall.
He's like six, six, So the biggest
adjustment that we changed with him is,
was his follow through because sometimes
when he catches the ball, it wasn't strict.
When you shoot the basketball,
you have to have a strict body to do
the same thing every single time.
But sometimes he was catching his body,
he was doing different things,
so I was teaching him how to be strict
and have a good follow through,
and once he caught on to that....
he has a nice shot.
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When I trained Drake,
he's serious about the art of shooting.
He's at men's leagues. He has leagues at his house.
He's not like,
"I'm just trying to work out the workout."
Like he wants to win,
Drake wants you to train him like you
train an NBA guy, because I'll test you.
You know, if you're a celebrity or something,
I want to see if you really love the game,
I'll do something to you to see if you say,
"Oh, hold up, man. Why you hit me so hard?"
So I was really aggressive,
when I say really aggressive I'm talking
about like as aggressive as I would be with
DeAndre Jordan, whose favorite shot
is a fade away. He loves Kobe.
So when I was hitting him and he was
working on his fade away,
I was showing him like,
"Hey, if somebody hands here, you go that way.
But you won't immediately go because
they're trying to push you that way.
You give them a little give so they
have to change their footwork so you
can go that way. If somebody is hands here,
you want to go that way.
But if somebody is hand here,
they're dead because if you are
too back like this,
you can go anywhere you want,
or you can be like this at face up,
which I showed him as well.
I would say top to bottom,
we changed his entire jump shot.
The one thing about Drake,
he has a beautiful follow-through,
but it was the mechanics at first from
the start that wasn't right,
but the follow-through was correct.
So I changed everything from the foot all the way up.
And then the follow through, I kept the same
because the follow through was perfect.
And if you give him homework,
and you go train them again,
you'll see the difference in his jump shot
because he shoots every day if he's not in the studio.
If he ever hits me up,
I'm going to continue to train him
because he's not doing it just to be cool,
he's doing it because he loves the game.
It's amazing to look a client in their face
and they're like smiling
when you tell them something,
it's like,
"dang!" I felt that, but I didn't ever know.
I can't explain that type of joy and
that's why my life is so committed to them,
just helping others and helping them
take a step in the right direction.
To everybody watching this,
if you want to be an elite shooter,
taking the time to form shoot every day,
try to make at least 300 shots a day,
stay inside the mid range. Once you master that,
go to the three point line. Once you master that,
go to the NBA line, once you master that,
you're in Steph Curry land.
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