As Stephen Curry's star has risen over the last two seasons, his pregame work has been in the spotlight.
His dribbling drill during shootaround has become the undercard to the actual game. Fans enter arenas hours before the game just to watch Curry dribble for a few minutes.
During a Warriors practice in November, CSN Bay Area cameras caught Curry doing another drill in which he wears strobe goggles, dribbles a basketball with one hand and juggles a tennis ball with the other. The goal of the drill is to improve his reflexes and timing.
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But baseball players?
That's where San Diego Padres catcher Austin Hedges comes in.
The 22-year-old Hedges and Padres strength and conditioning coach Brett McCabe saw Curry's drill and decided put their own spin on it.
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According to Padres.com, in the Padres' version of the drill, the catcher gets down in his crouch and faces a wall. A coach stands behind the catcher and bounces a tennis ball off the wall. The goal is for the catcher to snag the ball with his bare hand.
"Since you don't know where it's coming from you've got to kind of react to it. Honestly, it's one of the few drills I've ever done that when you put the glasses on it actually slows the game down," Hedges told Padres.com.
"Doing it without [the glasses on] is tough enough, doing it with is really hard. But when you take the glasses off, it's like slow motion. [The drill] becomes really easy," Hedges continued.
Hedges has even come up with his own term for the drill.
"We call them failure drills, drills you're supposed to [struggle with]. But over time, you start getting good at them," Hedges said. "If you see a live pitch from someone nasty like Tyson Ross, maybe that sinker isn't as tough to catch because you've been doing certain drills that test your reactions," Hedges said.
"I kind of started liking more failure drills. You can do easy drills, but it's not going to get you a whole lot better. This is really testing yourself on something you are not very good at it and eventually getting good at it," Hedges continued.