[Iko] #Rockets assistant Ben Sullivan on the science of shooting. Sullivan says he owes legendary coach Chip Engelland a lot for his success, especially with regards to charting development with players.

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   ST012Mi 2 years ago

   I [posted something to this effect from Wiki a week ago.](https://www.reddit.com/r/rockets/comments/14z75na/ben_sullivan_is_only_39_yo_has_an_nba/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)

   Also, since Twitter or * ahem * X is annoying, here’s the excerpt for you folks that don’t have the app:

   > He gave me a guide on how to go about (shooting), how you assess, and how you come up with a plan. In which order do you go evaluating not only the biometrics of a person’s body, how they physically are able to hold the ball or extend their wrist and elbow and hand placement and all those things, but then also the mental side and growing their shooting mentality. And so with each individual person, it’s kind of like a baseball swing or a golf swing or a snowflake. They’re all similar, but they’re all uniquely different. And each person’s shot is very specific to their own body, their own mind and how they’re made up. And so you have to go in and evaluate where they are physically, mentally, what’s their relationship with their shot. You build a plan around that after getting to know them, what they’re about, what they’re looking to improve. That’s the mentality of going into each project. Being a shooting coach, that was my title but that’s not my current title. Now it’s more something that I do, it’s something that I’ll work on guys with, but that’s not all that I do.