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I commented something similar on the video, but I realized you would have to define the problem much more rigorously to get an analytical solution. The ball can hit a point from many angles, so doesn’t that mean there can’t be a perfect solution? If you define the problem with precise constraints that roughly match the paths that will tend to occur from real people shooting baskets, and ignore variables like ball spin that probably don’t matter much in practice, I would imagine there would be an analytical solution.