Your catch-and-shoot is clean. Then you put the ball on the floor, rise into the same jumper, and the miss pattern doubles in width. Same release, same follow-through — so what changed? Look down. Those aren't two versions of one shot. They're one shot launched off a different base every time.
The base decides what repeats
Standing still, your feet find their spot automatically: about shoulder width apart, shooting-side foot slightly ahead. That base is why your spot-up shot repeats — everything above the feet launches from the same platform, rep after rep.
Off the dribble, the platform goes freelance. One pull-up you're too wide from a hard stop, the next too narrow off a crossover, the next your feet land staggered the opposite way because you drove left instead of right. Each variation tilts your hips and shoulders a little differently, and the shot inherits the tilt. The release you've grooved ten thousand times is fine; it's being asked to fire from a new foundation on every rep.
This is why off-the-dribble scatter resists release-focused fixes. Players film their arm, tinker with the wrist, adjust the guide hand — and the real variance is happening below the knees, before the shot even starts.
Watch your feet, not your hands
Next time you film a workout, spend one viewing ignoring the ball completely and just watch where your feet land on the gather. It's usually a revelation. CoachVision reads your stance width at setup from a single clip, so you can put a number on how much your base wanders between a spot-up and a pull-up.
The repair drill is the 1-2 Step Catch & Shoot, because it installs one footwork pattern you can carry from catches into dribbles.
Start with the catch version. Toss the ball out ahead of you with backspin so it bounces up like a pass. Move to it and catch on a 1-2 step: inside foot plants as the ball arrives, shooting-side foot steps through to square you — landing at your spot-up width — and you rise into the shot in rhythm. Twenty shots. The goal is that every single rep finishes on the same base: shoulder width, shooting foot slightly forward, hips at the rim.
Once the catch version is grooved, swap the toss for one dribble: push the ball out, take one hard dribble into the same 1-2 plant, same width, same rise. The footwork is identical — that's the entire point. You're teaching your feet that no matter how the ball arrives, they finish the approach the same way, every time.
Timing lives in the feet, and so does consistency. Give your pull-up the same base as your spot-up, and it will start giving you the same results.