When the Journal last caught up with former Gonzaga University basketball star and NBA player Dan Dickau in 2021, his vision for Shoot 360 Spokane LLC, a high-tech basketball facility in North Spokane, was still taking shape. 

Today, the franchise facility has become a busy hub for Spokane’s basketball community, running camps, leagues, and skills clinics that reflect Dickau’s style of precision coaching. 

“It took a few years to kind of fine-tune our plans,” he says about Shoot 360, which opened in November 2021. 

While Shoot 360 has hosted basketball camps in the past, which were led by Gonzaga student-athletes and popular with youth, they were also sporadic, says Dickau. This summer, for the first time, the company has decided to formally introduce a summer camp series that is set to run from July 7 to August 12. 

Basketball camp and basketball clinic are terms that can be used interchangeably, but Dickau prefers to use the term clinic because it more accurately describes the facility’s approach to training and coaching. Unlike traditional camps that run for several days, Shoot 360’s clinics are 2 1/2 hours per clinic and focus on a specific area of the sport, such as essential guard skills, pick n’ roll, attack moves, and essential wing skills, among others. 

“A lot of those will be run by me based on my skillset when I was a player,” Dickau says. 

The shorter clinics also help accommodate the facility’s youth three-on-three summer leagues, and its hundreds of members, who reserve 30- to 60-minute sessions to train at one or several of Shoot 360’s high-tech stations that monitor and give instant feedback on an athlete’s skills. 

The facility features five shooting stations that provide instant audio and visual feedback, as well as shooting analytics. At skills stations, athletes follow a routine displayed in front of them while an overhead camera registers the athletes’ movements to track and analyze their performance. 

Shoot 360 is located in a 12,000-square-foot facility at 3700 E. Francis, a block east of the Freya Street intersection. It has a staff of nine coaches who work with 225 members. Memberships range from month-to-month, three-month memberships, and annual memberships. Recently, the facility introduced a “four times per month” membership for athletes currently focused on a different seasonal sport but want to keep up with their skills during the off-season, Dickau says. 

Shoot 360’s strength, Dickau says, lies in its ability to train athletes across the spectrum of ages, from “Lil Ballers” as young as four to college players and Gonzaga alumni now playing professionally in Europe. 

“The amount of kids that we’ve impacted in three short years has been really cool to watch,” Dickau says. 

Over the past year, Shoot 360 has also been working closely with Spokane Public Schools. Dickau and his team have brought their coaching into classrooms and physical education classes for the day to teach students about the fundamentals of basketball. Dickau says they’ve done about three of these sessions and notes that they also serve as opportunities for kids to sign up for free clinics offered through the partnership with Spokane Public Schools.

One such clinic took place on June 14 and had about 80 students sign up. 

“We understand not every family can afford to have a membership here,” Dickau says. “But at least if we can give them some access on occasion, whether it’s a free clinic, or getting to know our coaches, or maybe learning a thing or two when they come in, that can help those kids.” 

Dickau, who played professionally in the NBA for six years and was on the coaching staff for the Portland Trailblazers for one season, says that since opening Shoot 360, he’s let go of other ventures to focus more on the facility. He sold his barbershop franchise businesses, but remains a college basketball broadcast analyst between November and March for KHQ, CBS Sports, and ESPN, offering commentary during Gonzaga basketball games. 

Most recently, he’s stepped into an entirely new field: addiction recovery services. He now works with Emerald National Laboratory, a Eugene, Oregon, toxicology testing company that specializes in comprehensive drug and alcohol testing. The company plans to open a lab in Spokane to support local programs, he says. 

“It’s something I never thought I would be a part of,” Dickau says. 

But after diving into the addiction, treatment, and recovery space and learning about what so many people in Spokane are going through, he decided he wanted to play a role in helping people recover. 

Shoot 360 is still in its growth phase, Dickau says. As it enters its next phase of growth, he wants to focus on making basketball fun, accessible, and transformative. 

“I look forward to helping more kids not just get better at the game of basketball but find how to work hard at something,” Dickau says.