Lin's form looks just fine. It's just his confidence that's shot. I've never seen another player in the NBA depend more upon positive reinforcement. I would rather Terrence Jones shoot threes at this point than Lin. It's getting ugly out there.
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It was sarcasm. I have gotten so annoyed by the threads going towards Lin it has become deliriously funny to me.
Chandler's shot isn't ideal, but he seems to sink them when they really count. I just keep reminding myself that Robert Horry had and ugly jumper too...
I've watched Chanlder and it's no worse than Bob McAdoo, Vinny Johnson, and George Iceman Gervin. Shooting is all about confidence and right now he's not pulling up with confidence. Also, his shoot falls more when he has a high release with his right hand way over his head. This alleviate those missles directly to the rim!!!
It's too late to change his form. You CAN put some arc into the shot like we've seen before. He worked so much during the 2012-2013 offseason to get the arc into his shot and he was shooting very well with it. Now he's regressed back to a flat shot. I say wait till the offseason to fix anything.
chandler needs to get back to what he was doing early in the season with out all that leg kick stuff. that is really throwing his shot off and making it inconsistent. less movement = easier to replicate the same motion every time (which is needed to become a great shooter)
THIS Bill talked about it one time on the broadcast. Says Chandler told him it's how he's always shot so he's not changing it. Not sure if this is the reason, but I know a few people who do the same thing and what they all have in common is baseball. Batters who extend and plant their left foot on the swing pick up this habit if they play basketball as well. What happens is the same motion used to prepare for a swing in baseball is replicated in basketball when going into triple threat position in basketball. Chandler often times plants the right foot and fakes extending the left foot. He's learned to get his shot off quickly, pass or drive in that same motion. Too late to change.
Make no bones about it; Parsons is a really good shooter. Is his shot a little funky? Yes, definitely, but he can will the ball into the basket with the best of them. Change his shot to "make it better", and it could ruin his shooting altogether. If everyone could make a minor tweak and all of a sudden shoot like Curry then they would. One of those easier said than done scenarios. At the end of the day he gets buckets and that's all I care about. I've seen way too many basketball players with "perfect form" that barely graze the front of the rim.
He usually shoots a solid %, so I let it go (even if it means shooting horribly for 5 games straight then catching fire for 3), but his stroke bothers me too. I doubt he ever becomes a consistent shooter, because he has to measure every shot with his sling-shot release. He's currently a "good" shooter, but it's hard to see him being any more than that.
He shoots like the 2nd or 3rd highest 3p% on the team. Maybe you should redirect your anger to someone else?
Shooting form isn't textbook, but it works for him. He just needs to stop kicking his legs up and/or fading away to make it more consistent.
Perhaps, but that may come from having a lot of duties on the court and thusly trying to do much at one time, causing a deformation of his shooting form subconsciously. The dude's always been a big shot maker and taker, that's for sure. From high school, to Florida, and to the Staples Center.
