Who changed Dwight Howard's shot where he sets for a free throw with the ball near his chest?

Please caption Kobe and Nash in the above pic.

 

Who knows how he learned it. His form is the biggest problem with his shot. He can practice for hours and hours and not improve, because he is just practicing bad techniques. Of course changing form will often make a player shoot even worse at first until you get used to it and perfect the correct technique, and some players are stubborn, or just can't seem to grasp the shooting lessons they are given. If he isn't willing or able to change his form then he will never be significantly better than he is right now. Obviously there have been other big men like Yao who have shot very well from the line, so it's just a matter of perfecting the technique. Perfecting his free throws to the point that he could shoot 70% or more consistently would boost Dwights offensive game more than learning a dozen post moves from Hakeem or McHale.

 

he has one of those forms that I just don't expect it to go in, like ever

like every made freethrow looks like a fluke

 

I'm with Rick Barry on this.

It's embarrassing for an NBA player to shoot under 80%.

He should learn underhanded. Barry swears that any player can shoot 80% if they work with him on it.,

 

nice find and good question! should ask he himself about it. what a waste, if he has been keep doing the right form he may already got a ring now. oh wait if that happened he wont be a rocket now. butterfly effect is interesting.

 

that's wrong. form doesn't matter as much as you think it does. What Dwight need to do is simulate game situation free throw. Do a couple sprints then come back and shoot.

 

Imitating Ray Allen? he's a guy who also only lowers the ball to his rib cage at the beginning of his shot and no one is saying anything about him.

 

Nash tried to teach him correct form last year and Dwight pretty much ignored him saying, he has to shoot it his own way

Beginning of 12-13 you'd see Pau and Nash during timeouts, reminding Dwight to follow through. After Dec you could tell they gave up

 

Barry is basing that on what? A sample size of one?

 

All I know is after watching Michael Kidd-Gilchrist shoot free throws, I realized how much better form Dwight shoots his free throws.

 

lol. Barry is out there to make money. Haven't you seen any of his failed marketing products like the shot-dot?

 

The Rick Barry under-handed freethrows. Jeez. I hope no player does that again.

 

I'm guessing he did.

Dwight and Shaq likely shift(ed) their weight forward. If they bring the ball down, it's throwing them further off balance, which would feel uneasy to them. They keep it up because it feels better to them.
Something obviously changed from early in Dwight's career, but i'm sure you don't want to hear my explanation on that.

 

Rick Barry wasn't the most recent NBA player to shoot an underhand free throw:

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horse meat?