Passing II

NBA teams have hired employees who apparently rebound shots and pass the ball to a player who is practicing his shooting. I have at least 3 objectives or criticisms of this. 

It indicates or implies that to develop one's shooting is more important than to develop passing skill. To have another player doing the rebounding and returning would allow that other player to practice all sorts of passing techniques from all the varied places where the ball is rebounded to. 

By practicing to develop an identical, repeatable shooting form you are a) boring your intellect, which considers it has learned how to shoot at earlier developmental levels and b) reinforcing the familiarity whit missing shots, which is likely to prevent the development of unerring shooting -- that is to say, never missing a shot in game contexts, or especially in "clutch" contexts, which is the ideal. While the shooter may be said to be practicing jump shots, the prevailing norm that I observe is that these are actually set shots, by which I mean that the player's body is not moving at all in any lateral direction when he shoots. 

I have learned that the fun and joy and pleasure of shooting practice -- though no doubt readers will not get me yet on this point -- is taking shots on the move and making the rough calculation of how much the aim must be adjusted to compensate for the drift of the motion imparted to the ball.