Handle pressure.
Create space. Play with confidence.
Help your player do more than look good in a drill. Professional shooting coach and skills trainer Matt Foley connects ball handling, finishing, and footwork with the decisions players face in games—so they can recognize an opening, attack with purpose, and make the next play with confidence.
November 8, 15, 22 & 29 · Four Sundays · $115 total
A move becomes useful when your player knows when to use it. Learn to recognize the defender’s position, create an advantage, and make a decision when help arrives.
Work on protecting the ball, changing pace, retreat dribbles, and escaping pressure while keeping options open.
Game connection: advance the ball with control and recognize when a pass is the better solution.
Connect changes of direction with footwork, pace, and purposeful attacks. Learn to create space for a shot or a drive.
Game connection: read how a defender is positioned and attack the opening.
Develop finishing footwork and control with either hand, then practice recognizing when a help defender leaves a teammate open.
Game connection: choose between the finish, the pass, or keeping the play alive.
Learn to cut, relocate, use screens, and find space for a catch-and-shoot opportunity. Stay involved when a teammate has the ball.
Game connection: move into a useful passing window instead of staying covered.
Players need chances to make choices. Each session connects focused skill work with coached situations where a defender changes the answer.
Matt Foley is a professional shooting coach and skills trainer who set several shooting records at Thomas Johnson High School. Over the past five years, he has worked with hundreds of developing players and built his own coaching systems.
His approach connects clear progressions and personal feedback with the situations players face on the court. Players learn what to adjust, why it matters, and how to turn a practiced skill into a useful game decision.
Skills are revisited throughout the program. Instruction and challenges are adjusted to the group.
One consistent hour each week to build the skills and decisions guards use with—and without—the ball.
Four focused Sundays to develop ball control, finishing, and smarter decisions—with clear teaching, personal feedback, and opportunities to apply the skills against a defender.
Complete the Google registration form, then follow its confirmation message to pay. Payment secures your player’s spot.
No. The program develops ball handling, finishing, decision-making, and off-ball movement. Players at any position who want to improve those skills can benefit.
Shot Lab focuses on shooting mechanics. Elite Guard Training Lab focuses on creating opportunities: handling pressure, getting past defenders, finishing, passing, and moving without the ball. They are separate programs with separate registrations.
The full four-session Elite Guard program: November 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2026, from 4–5 PM. That is four total hours of training and $28.75 per session within the program.
Live matchups and challenges are adjusted by size, ability, and readiness so players can practice against appropriate competition.
Use any registration button to open the Elite Guard Lab Google Form in a new tab. Submit your parent and player details, then follow the payment instructions in its confirmation message. Payment secures the spot; submitting the form alone does not complete registration.