Zach Leach (@_zachleach)

NBA CHAMP!!! From the first time we trained, KAT has always been locked all in. Before every season. Throughout COVID and this past October, we had a chance to sit and talk about this upcoming season and how good this team could be and how far they could go. Brother, you talked it into fruition. And we all know who you played this for. She has been with you every step of the way and is celebrating right there with you ❤️ Congratulations fam. Champion forever. @karltowns 🏆🗽 #nbachampion #karlanthonytowns #knicks #kat #hooplab

Air Adjustment Color Reads: As soon as the player takes off, shout a color that matches a spot they need to aim for. This finishing drill is all about building the skill to adjust mid-air and get creative with finishing around the rim. #tiktokbasketballcampaign #Tatcha #hooplab #basketball #basketballworkouts #basketballworkout #hooper #hoopersoftiktok #hoopers

We have to stop teaching the “Shooting Gap” #hooplab #CapCut #klaythompson #shootingguide #shootingtipsnba

Looking down doesn’t create bad habits. Not mastering the skill does. Training is where you study it, correct it and own it. Then the eyes come up. Stop confusing skill acquisition with skill application. #hooplab #CityTasteTest #pistolpete #ballhandling #dribblingdrills

What if AAU was built backwards? What if we stopped building the entire year around tournaments and started building it around the player? That’s what Chip on My Shoulder is about. I don’t care how many games a 12 year old can play in a year. I care about who that player becomes over that year. More skilled. More athletic. More confident. More knowledgeable. More prepared. We’re going to give our players every opportunity to work. What they do with that opportunity is up to them. You don’t have to live in the lab. But if you want the lab, it’s there. And when it’s time to compete, we’ll go find out what holds up when it matters. This is for the players who are hungry. The players who love being in the gym. The players who aren’t satisfied with where they are today. The players who feel like they still have something to prove. Comment “RUNS” if you want information on our FREE pre-tryout open runs. Comment “CHIP” if you want information on Chip on My Shoulder + tryouts. I’ll DM you the details. The chip gets you started. The work changes you. #hooplab #aaubasketball #chiponmyshoulder #newjerseybasketball #CityTasteTest

There’s more detail to a straight pound than just dribbling the basketball hard. Dribble with your elbow, not just your forearm. A lot of players pound straight up and down with their forearm and let their elbow get underneath the ball. Now you’re losing power, range of movement and options. We want the elbow driving the action while the hand stays on top of the basketball. That’s why we’re using the ZL MiniHandle here. The smaller surface area forces you to be precise with your hand placement and exposes the little details in your technique. Don’t just pound it hard. Pound it correctly. #hooplab #CityTasteTest #ballhandling #dribblingskills #basketballskills

New Jersey welcome - Chip on My Shoulder. I’ve been asked for years to start an AAU program. For years, I said no. Until now. This is going to be built differently. Development first. Competition with purpose. Skill development. Shooting. Team practices. Performance training. Meaningful competition. Year-round. We’re starting with 6th Grade Boys + Girls. If you want more information, comment “CHIP” below and I’ll send you the details. And I want to know… Should we open this up to MORE GRADES? 👀 If so, comment the grade + boys or girls below. WE WON’T CHASE GAMES. WE WILL BUILD PLAYERS. #hooplab #aaubasketball #newjerseybasketball #basketballtraining #basketballskills

THE WEIGHT EXPOSES THE DRIBBLE. ⚫️ You can get away with a lot of bad habits with a regular basketball. The Heavy MiniHandle doesn’t give you that same freedom. The added weight forces you to be more intentional with your technique and mechanics. You have to use your hand, elbow and forearm correctly, create force into the floor and most importantly, CONTROL where you place the dribble. Too far outside your frame? You’ll feel it. Wrong angle into the floor? You’ll feel it. Lazy hand placement? You’ll feel it. Poor timing between your hand, feet and body? You’ll feel that too. That’s why I like the weight. It doesn’t magically give you a better handle. It gives you immediate feedback when your mechanics aren’t good enough to control it. Clean up the technique. Clean up the placement. Then add the speed. Comment “Heavy” for more information on the Heavy MiniHandle. #hooplab #ballhandling #basketballskills #basketballtraining #ballhandlingdrills

Two basketballs. Two completely different demands on each hand. The MiniHandle 🔴 challenges precision, touch and clean ball placement because there’s less surface area to control. Add the Heavy MiniHandle ⚫️ in the opposite hand and now the player has to manage a completely different feel and force without allowing it to change the timing or rhythm of the other hand. That’s where this gets interesting. Each hand has its own responsibility but they still have to work together. Hand independence. Timing. Rhythm. Touch. Force control. Precision. It’s not just about keeping two basketballs bouncing. It’s about being able to control what each hand is doing independently without losing the overall pattern. Comment “MiniHandle” and I’ll send you the information on both. 🔴⚫️ #hooplab #basketballtraining #dribblingskills #ballhandling #basketballskills

Heavy basketballs have been around forever. Most of the time you see them used for ball handling, building stronger hands, challenging control and making a regulation ball feel lighter. But we like using them for shooting too. 🎯 The added weight changes everything. You can’t just push the ball up there. You have to create force from the ground, transfer that energy through your body and finish the shot with your hand. We’ll go back and forth between the ZL Men’s Heavy Ball and the Women’s Shooting Ball so players can actually FEEL the difference. Heavy ball ➡️ regulation ball. Same mechanics. Same intent. Different demand. When you go back to the regulation ball, it feels lighter coming off your hand and you can really feel the difference in how you generate power, control the ball and finish your release. Sometimes the best training tools aren’t about reinventing anything. It’s about finding another way to use them. 🏀 Comment “Weighted” and I’ll send more information to you! #hooplab #basketballtraining #basketballskills #shootingdrills #basketballshot

🏈 Think about a QB throwing a perfect spiral. You can almost tell the second it leaves their hand that it was a clean throw. Now think about shooting a basketball. Same concept. A QB uses the rotation of the football as feedback on how cleanly it came off their hand. As a shooter, we can use the rotation of the basketball the exact same way. That’s one of the biggest reasons I wanted the ZL Shooting Ball to have different colored panels. When that red and white ball starts rotating, you can actually SEE what happened at release. Clean backspin? Your hand was probably in a pretty good position behind the ball and it came off your fingers clean. Ball rotating sideways? Now we have something to look at. Is the guide hand getting involved? Is the thumb pushing? Is the ball coming off the side of the shooting hand? Are the fingers finishing through the ball consistently? The rotation becomes feedback. And here’s the important part… A quarterback CAN complete a pass with an ugly spiral. A basketball player CAN make a shot with ugly rotation. That doesn’t mean we ignore it. Because development isn’t about whether ONE shot went in. It’s about building a release you can repeat. Quarterbacks chase a tight, consistent spiral. Shooters should chase clean, consistent rotation. Sometimes the ball tells you what happened before the result does. 🎯 #hooplab #basketballtraining #basketballskills #perfectspiral #shootingdrills

The ZL Heavy MiniHandle doesn’t let you get away with loose hands, lazy dribbles or bad placement. You’ve gotta be precise. You’ve gotta be aggressive. You’ve gotta control it. Then when you grab a regulation ball, everything just feels different. Faster hands. Tighter control. More confidence with the ball. Make the training harder so the game feels easier. 🎯 Comment “Heavy” and I’ll DM you more information! #hooplab #basketballtraining #basketballskills #ballhandling #dribblingskills

The ZL Oversized Ball has become one of our most popular training tools for challenging precision, touch and accuracy on the shot. 🏀 SEE YOUR ROTATION The red + black panels give players instant visual feedback on how the ball leaves their hand. Clean rotation? Guide hand interference? Thumb involvement? Pinky causing the ball to curve? You can actually SEE the adjustment. 🤚 CREATE HAND SEPARATION This is a BIG one, especially for younger players. The larger surface naturally widens the shooting hand from the guide hand, helping players learn to generate the shot with ONE hand instead of relying on a two hand push, thumb flick or thumb push. 🎯 FIND YOUR HAND PLACEMENT The red center grooves give players a consistent reference point for their shooting hand. Pointer finger, middle finger or splitting the groove. Find what feels natural and repeatable for YOUR shot. 📏 CHALLENGE PRECISION + TOUCH A bigger ball demands more precision and control through the shot. When you switch back to a regulation ball, you’ve challenged those same mechanics under a more difficult constraint. Comment “OVERSIZED” and I’ll send you more information! #hooplab #shootingdrills #basketballshot #shootingdrill #basketballtraining

The ZL Women’s Shooting Ball has made a HUGE impact for players who are building, adjusting or fine-tuning their shot. ⚫️⚪️ Black + White panels make the rotation easy to see as soon as the ball leaves the hand. You can quickly tell if there’s unwanted guide-hand interference, thumb involvement or the ball is coming off the pinky side. 🔴 Red center grooves give players a consistent reference point for hand placement. Pointer finger in the groove, middle finger in the groove or splitting it. The goal is finding what feels comfortable and repeatable for your shot. It’s not about forcing everyone to shoot the same way. It’s about giving players better feedback so they can understand how the ball is actually leaving their hands. Comment “WOMEN” and I’ll send you more information! 🏀 #hooplab #shootingdrills #shootingdrill #basketballshot #basketballtraining

ZL Oversized ball ➡️ Regular ball. Alternating every other shot. Then @treypatt3 did this… 10 STRAIGHT makes with the regular ball. 🎯 The goal isn’t to make the regular ball feel easier. The ZL Oversized ball challenges your hand placement, control, touch and precision that gives you less room for error. Then when the regular ball comes back… everything has to be that much more precise. 🎯 #hooplab #shootingdrill #shootingdrills #basketballshot #basketballtraining

The ZL Men’s Shooting Ball has been such a huge impact on players critiquing or building their shot with the color panels for a better visual aid on their rotation and the center grooves down the center of the ball for their hand placement. No other ball is quite like this one and yes we have a women’s ball too!! Comment “Shot” and I’ll send more information over to you! #hooplab #shootingdrills #basketballshot #shootingdrill #basketballtraining

8,000 miles. 14 days. 40 hours. Jordan flew from Beijing, China 🇨🇳 to Freehold, NJ to get in this gym. Two weeks to rebuild the shot and add every skill we can fit. Stay tuned because you’re gonna see a different player on day 14! #hooplab #basketballtraining #basketballskills #beijing #beijingchina

Most players grab a regular basketball and start shooting. I don’t. The ZL Oversized Ball has become one of my favorite tools because it exposes the little things a game ball lets you get away with. If you can make this feel easy… A regulation basketball starts feeling really small. Every rep has a purpose. Every miss tells you something. That’s why this ball stays in my training rotation. 🏀 Comment “OVERSIZED” below and I’ll send you the link automatically. 📩 #hooplab #ballhandlingdrills #oversizedball #zlshootingball #shootingdrills

Two ways into the same Drop Hip Switch — both feet come up together, hips whip through in the air. Fast and explosive. Hip Rotation — back foot stays planted as a pivot, inside foot drives the hips around. Partial Pivot and more controlled. This one’s an Outside Foot Hip Rotation Same destination. Different way to get there. #hooplab #basketballdrills #ballhandlingdrills #shootingdrills #basketballtraining

One of my favorite shooting drills to do with players to test their shot off the dribble! Rules are 1) You must take 2 Dribbles and 4 Steps 2) You can’t pump fake 3) Only Speed Stops (No jump stops) 4) GET BUCKETS Got hot right out the gate in Barcelona until Mr Agua himself put an end to it! #hooplab #basketballdrills #shootingdrill #shootingdrills #barcelonaspain

2 🏀 alternating with the ZL Heavy MiniHandle Every dribble syncs to the opposite foot. The Heavy MiniHandle doesn’t get shot, it gets picked up so the off hand stays loaded through the gather. The weight and size of the ball will cause a delay on that one side so the timing has to stay perfect on the other. Start with the Heavy MiniHandle on the inside hand and finish the regular ball with the outside hand then flip it, Heavy MiniHandle on the outside hand and regular ball finish with the inside hand. The weight and size leave no room for bad timing. Comment “Heavy” and I’ll send you more information on our ZL Heavy MiniHandle Basketball. #hooplab #heavyminihandle #minihandle #basketballdrills #ballhandlingdrills

Machine Gun Shots Responses Hard slams of the basketball challengers and tests out the hands grip and strength before responding to the given cue and before lifting up into the shot the hands have to readjust to soft grip for a perfect end over end rotation shot like Maddie Burke did here 🔥 #hooplab #shootingdrill #shootingdrills #basketballshot #wnba

2 amazing weeks traveling to Spain 🇪🇸 working out some of the best young players in two amazing cities and I couldn’t be more grateful for what this game has brought to me. Players and families thank you for trusting me and allowing me to teach the skill side of the game. Coming in everyday working hard and giving me your full effort! @coach_sarmiento @like23.es @diegociorciari thank you guys so much and can’t wait to link up again for round 2! #hooplab #like23 #zaragoza #barcelona #spain

5 MiniHandle Dribbling Drills 🔥 Our brand new MiniHandle is an elite training tool that will sharpen a players hand speed, tighten dribbling control, lock in on true dribbling techniques and mechanics, strengthen the forearms and force better ball control! Comment ‘Mini’ and I’ll pass over more information!

The Official Hoop Lab ZL Men’s and Women’s Shooting Basketball is HERE!! ✅ Patented center grooves running down the entire ball lock in your hand placement ✅ Dual-color (Red/White - Men’s) (Black/White - Women’s) design exposes your shot rotation instantly Most players don’t actually know why they miss. It’s hard to consistently find the right hand positioning and at times even harder to see true end-over-end rotation on a regular basketball. This changes that. Every rep gives you real feel. Every rep gives you real feedback. Every rep makes you better. No guessing. No wasted shots. Just repeatable, game-ready shooting. This isn’t just a basketball. This is a tool that holds you accountable. If it spins clean… it goes in. 👇 Want one? Comment “Shot” and I’ll shoot over the preorder link.

Felipeeeee 😂😂😂 #felipe #zaragoza #like23 @Like23es

🎯 7-foot sniper. History made. We stretch that range every time in the lab focusing on distance, control, soft touch and the ability to maintain the same mechanics all the way throughout and it just keeps getting easier for him! The greatest shooting big man to ever touch a basketball just put on an efficiency clinic. Highest plus-minus in a single postseason ever. Bodega KAT is a king in New York! 🗽🏆 #hooplab #kat #knicksin5 #newyorkknicks #karlanthonytowns

The rep didn’t go BUT the smile did. That’s the part that translates. Basketball doesn’t reward the kid who never misses. It rewards the one who can miss, smile and keep attacking through the failure. Keep believing in yourself. Carter gets it and he’s 8. #hooplab #nevergiveup #determination #basketballworkout #freeholdnj

2 more. The work showing up. @karltowns 🗽 #hooplab #karltowns #knicks #newyorkknicks #karlanthonytowns

The midrange is a weapon most players never sharpen because they either never were taught it or told never to shoot it. Either way, develop it anyway. This drill exaggerates hang time and patience so you’re forced to lock in on that control! The same control you need on a normal pull up. Here’s Dez working the athletic side of a true jump shot, catching his peak before the release. Build your midrange! #hooplab #shootingdrill #midrange #fy #basketballworkout