Fuck that. The only thing I saw in all that was that everyone hates the guy.... including his girlfriend.
I think the numbers are bullshit because 2007 is about when the team started getting good again, and the team started having more fan support. Why not give the fans as a whole that victory? I highly doubt that ONE guy is causing the other team to miss an average of 6% from the line. I just don't buy it.
The interesting thing is the author dissects it by half: It's only a correlation, but that's a pretty damned significant correlation. I could ignore a 1 or 2%, but 4%? My guess is he has absolutely no impact on guys like Nash or Billups. Those guys can shoot 75% blindfolded, and there's nothing you can do about it. But maybe on a guy like Ben Wallace--somebody who doesn't get to the line much, is pretty shaky anyway.....I can see what little mechanics he has getting rattled by some douchebag in the 6th row. And for that, I salute that douchebag! Keep it up!
Or the fans are just more intense overall in the second half? When do they pass out the balloons? I thought it was only in the second half?
Many times players have said that Portland is one of the hardest places to play, so no, it wouldn't be the same in every arena.
I think the most effective routine would be if everyone in that section did a shooting motion right as the player was about to shoot. A bunch of waiving clapping baloons are just white noise if you're a good player. A whole crowd doing something like a shooting motion in unison, though, would take a lot more mental fortitude to tune that out in my opinion. Really, anything to get the guys mind off their free throw, and on the crowd, and they see enough boppers, I don't think it does much.
Make that ex-girlfriend. "Last year, his girlfriend broke up with him after incessantly fielding questions like, “Why are you with that crazy guy?” " "Free Throw Guy, girlfriend-less but ripe with passion..." BNM
What he should do is have a FTG type FTG flash mob. Like, as he's doing his dorky thing, about 25 other guys stand up and do random shit. Kind of similar to that guy who was dancing at the concert, all by himself for a good 2 minutes. Then another guy joined, and another..and before you knew it, there was like 300 drunken college kids dancing around acting like dorks. Wait...just what in the hell am I proposing here!? [video=youtube;GA8z7f7a2Pk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk[/video] btw, true story. That guy who runs in about 2:15 in in the red underwear and umbrella? Our own, HCP!
I think that's great! The guy is a intense fan what more can you ask? The players like it I love it!!
Unlike FTG, the girls (hippie chicks, anyway) seem to like the dorky dancing guys. Of course, they're probably drunk and high. So, perhaps their judgment is a bit impaired. But, at least they are running toward dorky dancing guys, not away from them. FTG is like the 3 Stooges; women just don't get him. They think he's stupid. BNM
Yeah, but it wasn't until AFTER someone else joined in. You notice that it wasn't popular until other people started doing it. If you have like a few guys join in, and then more, people will do it (well, not the old blue hairs that sit in the lower section and bitch about the noise level).
She didn't leave him because she didn't like what he did, but because of all the comments on why she was with him because of what he did. If she cares that much about what other people think screw her! FTG is better off without her.
Come on MGB... you can only be weird and eccentric if you have money. If you're flat broke, you're just a dork and most women don't find that attractive.
