would be fitting to be the 8th seed, healthy, and have the Celts lose their guys to injuries. A Celtic hater Knick fan can dream?
franco12 wrote:would be fitting to be the 8th seed, healthy, and have the Celts lose their guys to injuries. A Celtic hater Knick fan can dream?
I think this is the exact risk profile that allowed the Celts to acquire Holiday and Porzingis the way they did.
newyorknewyork wrote:NYKBocker wrote:Panos wrote:Rookie wrote:Panos wrote:EwingsGlass wrote:Mitch Robinson is running and jumping again. Allegedly.
Well that's kind of all he needs to do. Not like he needs to get his shot back!
Dude needs to learn how to shoot free throws.
I don't understand how anyone in the NBA doesn't hit 70% of their free-throws.
Just practice, dude. It's the same fucking shot, every time.
That's like the big man trait for since forever. There has to be something being that tall to mess up your ability to hit free throws.
I know for Shaq it was because his hands were to big. Not sure if that is the common reason for the poor FT shooting big men.
Actually I think it was his wrist..
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Don’t Get All Out of Joint About Shaq’s Free Throws
BY RANDY HARVEY
DEC. 3, 1996 12 AM PT
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Shaquille O’Neal has been examined from head to toe--especially the head--because of his free throw miseries. But not nearly enough attention has been paid to his wrists.
He broke both when he fell out of a tree as an 11-year-old. As a result, he still cannot cock his right wrist normally and his hand curves inward. That is the reason he looks more like Randy Barnes than Reggie Miller from the line.
“That’s a physical fact,” Laker Coach Del Harris says. “He can’t put his wrist into the classic free-throw shooting position.”
Finding an alternative has been Harris’ project. It is more of a challenge than he faced previously when coaching free-throw shooters such as Rick Barry and Calvin Murphy, but it’s necessary.
O’Neal, who has made 44.9% of his free throws, will have to improve for the Lakers to consistently win close games because defenders know that their best chance to stop a score is to hack Shaq.
Harris believes that O’Neal can find a style suitable for him. But Rule No. 1 is that he can neither solicit nor accept advice from anyone else.
Feels like he is gonna be back Sunday or Tuesday and once it happens this team will flip to another level, even before Randle comes back. When Randle went down, I thought we would ride out 20 games and win 12 or 13 since so many were at home. Little did we know OG was gonna be out for the same time - without the contact/thud we felt when Randle went down.
Randle adds the dimension we need to punish people offensively, but I think OG's return gives us everything we need to have the best defense and hustle team in the NBA around Brunson.
