{"id":235,"date":"2026-09-24T01:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:47","slug":"3-targets-to-create-offense-without-hitting-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"3 Targets to Create Offense Without Hitting Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"3 Targets to Create Offense Without Hitting Harder\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBi1eqbSjos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Kyle Koszuta\u2019s longform with Jake: building right-side offense for a PPA Challenger path by teaching three specific targets that create aggressive opportunities without simply swinging harder. The theme is intentional targeting \u2014 pick spots that force floats, body jams, or poor counters so offense comes from geometry, not raw power.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Offense can be placement, not just pace<\/li>\n<li>Three concrete targets beat \u2018hit harder\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Right-side players need planned attack spots<\/li>\n<li>Weak replies from good targets beat heroic winners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch and list the 3 targets by name<\/li>\n<li>Live ball: only those 3 targets for one game<\/li>\n<li>Track how often each target produces a weak reply<\/li>\n<li>Cue: \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=383\">choose a target<\/a> before you swing\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Kyle Koszuta\u2019s longform with Jake: building right-side offense for a PPA Challenger path by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,388,200,401],"tags":[63,402,403,49,62],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-offense","category-strategy","category-targets","tag-kyle-koszuta","tag-offensive-targets","tag-placement-over-power","tag-right-side","tag-thatpickleballguy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}