OFFICIAL Around The NBA Thread...... August

I guess we know who's been torturing you

 

He’s a great dad couldn’t imagine a better one, but for whatever reason he is in my head. Maybe I should try granny...

 

Lol over Houston?

 

Indiana is in the east, though...

 

That is the SHIT!!

Imagine if Shaq took Barry's advice! Kids everywhere would've known it was ok to do it and there would be no stigma.

Fuck Shaq and his ego.

 

Shit.... Guess I won't be so hard on mine then!

 

My bad. I was thinking y'all were talking about OKC.

 

Man I don’t know what it is, it’s the craziest thing. It really messes with me. At this point I think of my dad as one of my best friends, though at times even at
33 he still has to step out and give me the dad advice, but playing basketball around him I become a real head case. It goes beyond ft’s but that’s where it’s the worst because at the ft line things slow down.

 

I see no problem shooting free throws that way. It doesn't make you any less of a player. Dwight Howard should do this as well.

 

I think shooting mechanics are important but sheesh if you can’t hit a ft screw the ego do whatever it takes to get it in the basket.

 

Ever see films of Don Nelson shooting FTs? IIRC he had a decent career %, but his form was baboon-butt-ugly! He used a one-handed shot-put style.

 

I know it's still not good but DeAndre Jordan got his FT% up to 58% last year which was by far his career high. Andre Drummond went from 38.6% to 60.5% which I think deserved a lot more attention than it got last year. That is a truly remarkable improvement.

I think these guys think that they are so good that they will just start falling eventually.

 

The Drummond stat is pretty incredible. Both because that’s a heck of a jump and 2nd because it’s sad you can raise your ft% by 22 points and still be basically a bad ft shooter...

 

You know the Pistons have never finished better than 8th in the east that last ten years?

 

They also have several championships (3?) since the last one we have

 

Seems legit...

 

Is Olshey writing that site's tweets now?

 

I’m all for having our fantasies but I think it’s usually best not to post them online...

 

I did not like Nate as a coach when he was in Portland, but I've met him, and it's awfully hard not to like and respect the guy on a personal level.

Keeping in mind I have not paid any attention to Nate's coaching since he left the Blazers, it seems reasonable to assume he's learned some things over the years and is probably a better coach today than he was then.

 

In my mind, a 50% free throw shooter NOT learning and trying out the underhand technique shows a LACK of self confidence and masculinity. A confident man would step up to the line, own it, and make shooting underhanded free throws cool.

Hell, it's so unusual these days, with probably going on two generations who have never even seen a person do it, some sponsor could frame an entire advertising campaign around it. The possibilities are limitless. It would be a gold mine for the first big name player to pitch this to an advertiser. Kids would be doing it all over the place.

I'm going to expect a commission for this idea.