Dr. Dish IC3 Basketball Shot Trainer Rebounder with Net Return System

My son spent the fall working really hard on his cross country running ... and his basketball shooting accuracy suffered. With tryouts coming up he asked for some way to get his shot rate up while practicing at home. I read reviews and decided to try the iC3. It's not the very easiest thing to assemble but even with the help of a 7- and 13-year old, it took less than an hour. We hoisted it up on to the rim, adjusted the pole standoff, and ... the thing just worked! Again and again and again - the ball goes in and it comes back to you. *Every* once in while the ball can hang up but if you're shooting with two balls (one after the other) the second ball will free the first. I can probably adjust things to reduce this even further. We used it over the Thanksgiving break, and it just kept right on working. My son could easily swing the ball return to where he wanted it. This contraption raises your shooting rate by 2-3X and by letting you stay put between shots it is much easier to concentrate on your form. Caveats - based on other reviews I made sure to get plenty of tension on the bottom of the net funnel. I suspect that any slack there will increase the stuck ball rate. Also, the net is well above the rim (which is a great thing for mid-range and out) but you'll want to take it off to close-in work. Two people can take it down and put it up quickly. The net extension rods collapse and fold up, making it something like a large fold-up chair with a weird extension for the ball return. All in all I am extremely satisfied with this purchase.

Expensive. Excellent ball return, keeps the reps going!

This rebounder is such a great tool for my 15 year old to very efficiently practice his 3-point shots and his free throws! Now I don't have to chase the ball all over the neighborhood. However, he likes me to stand underneath, catch the ball as it comes down the shoot and throw it to him (as it would come to him in a game) instead of receiving it like a slow rolling bowling ball. I had my son read the directions with me to choose the pieces along with the correct nuts and bolts. It went together very easily as you just need two 10mm wrenches for everything. There were no missing pieces and within a short time we were lifting it onto our hoop and HOORAY it works beautifully! We are thrilled with this piece of equipment that will help my son round out his valuable skills! I would highly recommend this great tool!

Product is great but the instructions sucked. You def have to be a little handy and have a pretty good understanding of how to put things together. None of the parts are labeled. It is however pretty sturdy and helps my son put up more shots than he would normally be able to.

This definitely dialed my kids shots in. Easy to assemble and to install. I recommend using two people for safety. Definitely worth the price for the return.

Makes practice shots a breeze. It returns the ball to you as well so you can practice nonstop and every miss is caught in a net and goes down the ramp that sends it right back to you.

This is a phenomenal shot trainer and ball return piece of equipment. It does exactly as purported and has helped my son immensely. The iC3 is well constructed and was really quite easy to put together. Just follow the instructions exactly... simple as that. I think it took me around 45 minutes to put together but it would have been quicker since I was helping with dinner. My son shoots quite a bit everyday as part of his training and this allows him to be efficient with his time. To become a great shooter, one must have correct form and one must put in the reps to develop muscle memory. The net helps instill muscle memory for the correct trajectory of the ball, which aids the form. It is true that one can get several hundred shots off in a short period of time. I prefer to have the ball return directed to me. At that point, I can then pass the ball to my son so he can practice creating his shot pocket. Overall, this is a great product, which I would highly recommend!

I can see over time how this product stands up, but I figured I'd post because at first this product seemed like a flop and it is pointed out in several reviews. The basketball gets stuck in the front of the goal, in between the basketball net and the trainer net. I adjusted the tension in a few different areas, as people mentioned that being helpful. But then I remembered the story (which turned out to be just a myth) of NASA spending millions on pens that would write in space and instead the Soviet Union used a $1 pencil. So I cut the basketball net up by just the very bottom knot (so about two or three inches) all around. The net still looks like a normal net, just a tad bit shorter, and I gave up trying to get the ball stuck after my many repeated attempts failed (those same attempts would previously get the ball stuck from those angles about 80% of the time). It's late and I need to get to bed, but tomorrow I have a theory about the ball bouncing out too often. It involves Tom Brady and a minor bit of deflate-gate. Setup was pretty easy overall, and the arc level seems just about right. The feeder, with that adjustment, works very well.

At near the end of Assembly we found one of the telescopic tubes was bent, preventing it from extending and also had end hole on wrong side. There are four tubes That should be identical, but the bent one was different. there was some quality assurance paperwork inside the box, but obviously someone missed the defective part. There is no way that this part was damaged during shipping. This would’ve come that way from the manufacturer. This piece of equipment was very expensive and I expected better. As mentioned this defect was found at the end of assembly. I did not want to disassemble repackage and return so I just bent the piece back by hand and was able to extend the inner piece. I would not recommend Anyone to buy this at this price point.