Dirk Nowitzki’s Shooting Workout: A Learning Experience

A few weeks back we had the pleasure of being witness to Dirk Nowitzki and his long time coach, Holger Geschwindner going through one of their legendary (and rather secretive) shooting workouts on one of the Maverick’s days off. If you have no clue what one of these workouts looks like please scroll down and watch the videos that accompany this post, because quite frankly it is very hard to describe in words the type of drill work that was being done. This workout, regardless of its unorthodox nature, encompassed everything that should be sought after in a player, trainer, skill development program, and life. Several lessons were learned from observing this quick but effective one hour workout: