JOSH CHASE / SPECIAL TO THE PVT The Global Shot Doctor, Duane Lewis, conducted a basketball camp at Pahrump Valley High School Tuesday. Advertisement

Several Pahrump Valley High School basketball players plan to make the all-state team during the Trojans' 2007-2008 campaign.

In order to do that, though, according to Global Shot Doctor Duane Lewis, those players will need to shoot about 500 shots a day for 100 straight days.

And they'll need to shoot them right.

To help them on their way, Lewis visited the high school Tuesday, giving two three-hour sessions--one in the morning, to help soon-to-be prep stars currently in grades 4-7, and one in the afternoon to help ball players in 8-12 grades hone their skills.

Lady Trojans coach Bob Hopkins invited Lewis to give a set of clinics at the school because Hopkins remembers how Lewis' help upped the game of Hopkins' former teams. This year marks the first time Lewis has worked in Pahrump.

"He's showing them the correct grip, body positions, setup, follow-through and cybernetics," Hopkins said, while Lewis was working with some youngsters. "Basically what he does is teach them how to shoot."

Shooting is something Lewis knows a lot about. A 25-year coach at a school in Colorado, Lewis said he decided to star a traveling clinic after hearing about somewhat less skilled lecturers giving clinics of their own. He gave his first clinic in 1983 -- the same year Hopkins and his team first met him.

It was in high school that Lewis said he began to perfect his shot. He played basketball on the court, as well as on a homemade hoop his father installed inside their house.

"I had studied a lot and I knew a lot about shooting," the shot doctor said of his decision to put on clinics. "I shot 64 percent in high school."

But it took more than just knowing how to shoot to become able to effectively teach the skill, Lewis said. He had to analyze what it was that made his shot so good.

Muscle and tendon movement as well as body position and finger placement all go into a good shot. Not only did he study his own shots, Lewis said, he also has analyzed the shots of some of today's biggest stars, like LeBron James and Steve Nash.

"I just put it all together and made it easy," he said.

Students participating in the clinic paid $40. All members of the Pahrump Valley girls team were required to participate, said Hopkins, who hopes the session will show up in the girls' play next season.

In the 2006-2007 campaign, the Lady Trojans, powered by a stout defense, but hampered somewhat by an offense that generated less than 50 points per game, were 30-4, but lost to Spring Creek in the Nevada Class 3-A state championship game, 47-33.