Sports Product Review

Last week my 11 year-old son learned a great life lesson within the context of basketball. In our season’s first game, which our team won, he was our leading scorer and played well defensively. However, he had at least eight free-throw attempts and missed them all. I knew this must have bothered him when I saw him out on the street the next day, by himself, shooting from the line. He was out there a long time and, at one point, I asked where he was. “39 for 91,” he replied, forlornly. I asked if he was going to shoot a hundred. “I have to shoot until I get to 50 percent,” he answered. I was afraid that might take years, but finally, at 122 shots, he arrived at 61. He shot at least 100 more each day until our next game and, in that contest, made six of his first seven from the stripe. But then, with 14 seconds left and the team down by two, he was fouled driving to the basket. He had two shots and needed to make both to send the game into overtime. I didn’t think it was likely that he’d make a pair in a pressure situation like this. I was already plotting my speech to him after the game about how his shooting had improved and that all of that practice had, in fact, paid off. Then he made the first one. Now I started praying to the Basketball Gods, asking for divine intervention. It worked. He swished the second clutch shot and sent the game to OT. We won.

As a reward for his hard work I’m going to get him the SHTMKR ShotMaker from Gared Sports, (www.garedsports.com). Requiring no tools, it hooks to the net with three snaps and automatically returns every made shot directly to the shooter. Since this will reduce the amount of time he needs to follow his daily free-throw regimen, now he’ll have more time for homework. Or, working on his jump shot. 

Source: Gared Sports