Question I get all the time is, “Can I be an open A (or whatever level), by June of next year?”
My answer is the same; I have no way of looking into an athlete’s heart. I have seen improvement where I thought it was impossible and I have seen no improvement when I thought it was a no-brainer.
This is up to how much work you put in.
Someone said once in a camp, “I cannot kill the ball off the back wall. I worked thirty minutes on it and I still cannot do it.”
A pro I was teaching with said, “I worked on it four hours in one practice last week.”
It takes repetition of a movement done correctly to be able to execute under pressure.
Practice is fickle. I see folks falling back on one leg killing the ball from 38 feet away in practice. That same shot in a tournament is a skip.
Check out how many ceiling balls are hit by top pros. You might be surprised. One of the internet experts said something like “so and so never hits a ceiling ball.” What they should have said was, “Nobody notices when so and so hits a ceiling ball” because all of the pros hit ceiling balls (or should) to get them out of sticky situations.
All of them!