Hoosier Shooting Academy Reaches 6 Million Shots With Machine-Driven Training

At Hoosier Shooting Academy in southern Indianapolis, there are no courts, no scrimmages, no team or 3-on-3 training. The floor is made up of 14 separate shooting keys, exclusively focused on individuals and their growth as shooters and shot-creators. That singular model has now produced a number that is hard to argue with: CEO Paul Swartz, a dedicated basketball coach and trainer for over 20 years, is celebrating over 6 million shots taken at his Indiana-based facility in just 4 years of operation.

For Swartz, the approach is admittedly uncommon and mostly unprecedented, but he believes it is a game-changer for the future of player development. "When people saw it on paper they thought I was crazy," Swartz said. "They looked at it like 'there's no way.'" The skeptics have been quieted by volume. Six million machine-tracked repetitions is the kind of data that reframes the argument.

The machine powering that volume is the Dr. Dish shooting system. HSA utilizes the Dr. Dish CT shooting machine to give players an NBA-level trainer at their fingertips no matter the day, time, or situation they are training in. "I have NBA trainers on top of NBA trainers with the Dr. Dish," Swartz said. Every one of HSA's 14 shooting keys features a Dr. Dish unit, meaning every session is tracked, structured, and accountable from the moment a player steps onto the floor.

Swartz was deliberate in choosing Dr. Dish over competing equipment. "It was a simple choice," he said. "I see where Dr. Dish started and where they are now. I see innovation, I see a vision, and I see them growing. Dr. Dish and the HSA are lock-stepped together to change the future of basketball. Then, I look at the competitors and see the same things reproduced over and over. They show little or no growth or innovation."

The résumé behind that conviction runs deep. Swartz has a reputation for training and developing some of the NBA's top talent, including Gordon Hayward, Mike Conley Jr., and Jeff Teague, along with thousands of college and high school players. His philosophy traces back partly to a Stan Van Gundy interview in which Van Gundy argued there was no real player development, and Swartz looked around and saw that every other facility was built around teams. "Nobody was ever developing the player," Swartz said.

HSA's model addresses that gap directly. The machines give players a structured, high-quality workout even without a physical coach standing next to them. Memberships grant access to all 14 shooting keys, various skill development areas, and hands-on coaching personalized to each player's specific needs. The facility sits at 1260 Interchange Crossing Blvd, Suite 1, in Indianapolis, on the city's east side.

Swartz spent nearly a decade traveling the country before opening HSA, picking the brains of trainers, coaches, and industry influencers. "Go against the grain," he has said. "Don't fall into the trap of what everyone else is doing. Create your own structure." Six million shots later, that structure is producing results that speak for themselves.