Well it is not the worst especially with McGrady. Ok it is not the best but pretty ok. And I expect him to attempt even more ft than 7. But Scola 2/5 and Landry have to improve...Especially Scola
We just plain got beat up last night on the board even though the record did not show. And please keep practicing on the free throw because it is free. Before the playoff start and after Yao went out for the season. I said that we will miss him on free throw, rebounding, intimidating, block shots, second option and etc.. But now we have to do without him please take care the free throw that the only way we can make them paid beside shooting the wide open three-point shots.
I have not played competitive, officiated basketball in over twenty years. I can step out on my drive way and hit 9 out 10 freethrows all night long. I know junior high players who can. I know little dribblers who can. I understand game conditions put the pressure on, but really, free throws are not that hard. What it suggests to me, is the Rockets don't have many pure shooters, or shooters period. Concentration and shooting technique, that is all it is.
How about this for motivation? Every time they miss a free throw, they lose $1000. Free throws is part of their job description, isn't it? So it's only fair that they get penalized for not doing their jobs.
Every time Scola walked up to the line I was ready to punch my TV, just waiting for that miss...did not anticipate Jackson though, haha, not ready for that.
I have never seen a team this bad at making free throws. This fundamental basketball and it's cost us two playoff games. There is no excuse - Adelman should have gone boot camp a long time ago and made them stay late into the night shooting them. Honestly, it's embarrassing and the Jazz are probably chucking it up; the strategy used to be "Hack a Shaq," but with the Rockets it's just "Hack the Entire Team."
It starts with your superstar scorer being a below 70% FT shooter. It moves to your low post player being a below 70% FT shooter. They're going to get most of the foul calls but if you can't make your opponent pay, then they should hack away!
And tons of practice. You can't tell me that Yao Ming is a naturally gifted shooter. He's made himself a good FT shooter by shooting tens of thousands of them in practice.
Even if he was born shooting free throws, that's not stopping him from practicing every single day. There is something seriously wrong with our guys if they don't get that.
Yao has a naturally soft touch and a reliable shooting form. Some people can practice for years and still suck at shooting. Look at Shaq or Ben Wallace. Practice can only do so much. You have to have skill and talent also.
scola is absolutely the most frustrating player to watch shoot ft's. someone PLEASE get him a shooting coach that teaches him how to FOLLOW-THROUGH.
Nice. Seriously, when a girls' high school basketball team can shoot free throws better than a NBA team that's pretty sad. We wax on all about T-Mac's talent and ability to hit impossible fadeaways over defenders, but a set shot with nobody up in your grill? You have to hit that ***** more than 80% of the time. This goes for everybody on the team.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I'm sorry, are you telling me that Chuck Hayes's FT form is naturally inborn? That crap is the most awkward, unnatural, ungodly thing I've ever seen in my life. It's so beyond catastrophic that you need to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch. The fact that Chuck Hayes still shoots FTs like that tells me that coaches and players DON'T WORK ON FTs. I still remember the last game of the season - the Clippers announcers hilariously ragged on Hayes so bad that they had to replay his FTs before going to commercial break.
