ARMS When the ball is in the air,
start that forward motion. Ideally, the timing is when you catch the pass, the arms are in a position where you can immediately release a shot.
FEET 2-POINT TAKE
The 2-point line is the greatest thing the MLL has to offer. Why don’t more college people open their eyes and look at basketball? When they added the 3-point line, it’s impossible to play zone defense. Dudes rip it from out there. You want to speed up the college game? Put in a 2-point line and encourage guys to actually shoot.
MY FUTURE
I’ll be 36 next year. I’ve reached that point in my career where it’s a wait-and-see. How am I going to feel come March? I had a great experience in Boston. To be able to play with Ryan Boyle, Mitch Belisle, Kyle Sweeney and Brodie Merrill, who I’ve come up with our entire careers, was special. If it is my last year, it had that nice closure to it.
I
n shooting drills,
pick a spot. We don’t particularly care what that spot is, shoot to the same spot every time. There’s
a good Bruce Lee quote, “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,
but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
That’s the mentality we want in shooting. When you’re practicing, shoot to that spot again and again.
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Notice there is not too much movement forward. You want it to be a contained motion with not much movement ahead of where you caught it. The emphasis is on the quick release.
CENTER CONE
In this drill, often players will continue to curl toward that path of where the ball is coming from to the feeder side of the cone (in the center of the fi eld). You want the player to stop at that cone.
In football, if you have a receiver going
against a zone, you want them to sit down in a zone where they’re open and not move. With the time-and- room shot, the idea is to get into that spot in the zone, sit down, set your feet and be prepared to shoot as soon as you get it.
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