Paolo Banchero Describes KD’s Insane Shooting Workouts

Paolo Banchero Describes KD’s Insane Shooting Workouts

Your your improvement in shooting this year and obviously you had a full summer um with USA basketball um but just the what what types of things were you working on over the off season did you change anything did you figure out what’s a good shot for you what’s a bad

Shot for you from that range like where where is this Improvement coming from yeah I think I put in a ton of reps um I did change I think a little bit with my base um and how I get into my shot and then I think my arc just being as

Consistent as I could with my arc I think that was something that kind of would fluctuate throughout the season and so just drilling you know getting Arc of my shot uh you know whether it was with Mike um I think I spent some time with Kevin that helped me as well

Um just with my shot you know seeing how he details just every single rep looks the same I think that really kind of Kevin as in Kevin Durant Kevin Durant yeah I think that just woke me up and showed me like yo like showed me a different level of working out you know

Just really yeah like you gotta lock in like not saying obviously I work out hard yeah but Kevin is like is it the attention of detail yeah it’s like that’s a whole different level that you got to be able to reach then that’s that showed me you know being with him this

Summer I was like okay I got a long way to go did you do his one uh footed spin spin into a shot yeah it tough like you know BR the first time I started doing that it was probably like it was late in my career like it took me like a week

Where I could like consistently do it at the three-point line I could do it at the elbow fine no issue or then he’ll do it where he starts on one foot spins Taps the second foot it’s right up into a shot and like you’ll do it or I’ll do

It and I’ll and it’s like I’ll get in my shot but it’s like I’m just so focused on the feet and like making sure everything’s like all one so it kind of looks kind of put together you know piece by piece and then C gets out there

And fluid every time same same thing every time I feel like almost every National televis game they show like the intro and they do the uh you know and for the Phoenix Suns Kevin Durant you know they make up a stat 31 points eight rebounds seven assists 57% from three

Over his last seven he’s only the fourth player in the last 40 years to do it you know whatever whatever they’re talking and they show Kevin he’s always doing that I swear it’s every every broadcast I’m like they got Kevin again he does that like 6 60 minutes on the

Clock he not even before the game when they’re doing the the the intro it’s wild because especially the so like the the half one is easy but like when you do the full one the first few times you’re like I feel so stupid and he just makes it look effortless and obviously

Dirk did it too that’s you know DK OG but those guys it’s it’s so impressive yeah and he’ll shoot like literally 85% in the workout really and like literally like working out with him it makes you lock in even more like them workouts with KD were some of the best shooting

Days I’ve ever had because I felt like you know I can’t let this dude leave me in the dust is it just you too or is there anyone else there yeah it was just us but like it really took you kind of to another level like damn this is where

I gotta be like he just he don’t miss so it wasn’t necessarily it was like competitive but it was just more like I can’t I can’t look like an to Kevin I can’t miss seven in a row like we’re doing drills where he got to go

Three in a row I got to go three in a row we can’t move till we both get three in a row like you can’t I’m not going to that’s pressure on both of you exactly I’m not gonna be the guy that sits here and tries again four times like I just

Couldn’t let myself be that guy how did that how did this come about you reached out to him uh Mike did yeah Mike through Mike yeah so Mike also helped you with your shooting oh yeah for sure what is he like I’m I’m curious because you know

I played against Mike obviously but very like um specific way of shooting and Bob Tate uh rip passed away recently was uh helped helped my shooting coach for him for a while Bob also helped Blake and I believe Jay kid as well what what are the things Mike

Stresses to you when you guys work on your shooting I think uh being down before I being ready being down and ready like before I catch um not being straight up and then his thing is always like like shoot it like shoot that mother like that’s what he tell me to do

Like sometimes you leave short or you’re like if if anything all this fails like you got to get it there you got to shoot it you got to have a chance like give it a chance and so that was kind of how he how we started cuz when I was working on

My arc like working on your Arc is always tricky I feel like did you did you change your release point at all though uh I wouldn’t say I made an effort to change it I think maybe by changing the AR The Arc did alter Al a littleit but I think that was the

Biggest thing was just being so comfortable with it that I’m not thinking about you know not trying to calculate anything I’m just letting it Fly and getting to the point where I can just catch and fire um and I think we put in so much work that you know during

The season it was kind of the same thing like I hav’t been able to just you know once I see a shot that I like I take it and if it goes in it goes in if it doesn’t you know I’m G shoot the next one yeah that was something he helped me

With too

In this clip, Paolo Banchero (Orlando Magic) describes working out and shooting with Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns)

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