Free throws - if your good during practice and bad during games maybe this is why

You also don't shoot the practice free throws after running up and down the court, fighting for position, and getting hacked/slapped hard.

There probably is some validity to it.... but there are countless other acts during the game that differ from practice... doesn't mean that practice doesn't translate to game situations.

Players seem to always hit open shots in warmups/practice... not so much during the game. And when they do hit open shots during the game, they usually do something that they'd never do in practice/warmups (a head nod to the passer, a high-five, trash-talk, etc.).

 

Some people are good singing in their shower alone but freeze up if they have to sign in front of a crowd especially a large one.

A lot more pressure shooting FTs when it matters and hearing boos on the road

 

If you stick to a routine before you shoot the FTs, it shouldn't matter whether there is or is not a hand slap in between.

90% FT shooters also hand slap

 

He uses his arms only when he shoots. He needs to use his legs also.

 

I think we already knew he was getting in a rhythm in practice and that's why he was so much better. There's a lot that he does differently, so it's not just the hand slapping. He needs to be able to make them regardless though, otherwise it's a fluke.

 

In practice you are shooting numerous free throws in a roll which allows you to get in rhythm. Not too mention you're shooting them without any pressure nor his your adrenaline pumping.

 

I think the hand-slapping is idiotic, too, but I doubt it has any effect on Dwight's shots.

 

Get rid of the hand slapping. Don't do it because of some negative effect, do it because it is a stupid and pointless waste of time.

 

Dwight needs to get hand slaps in practice to simulate game conditions.

 

god even I can shoot 80% in practice.

When you're running up and down a court, fatigued, hacked, its harder to get in a rythm.

 

John Lucas was the first person I saw with the hand slap.

 

Almost everyone is good during practice. Almost every player shoots worse in games than in practice.

 

I've never understood why people compare practice, where you shoot dozens of FT's consecutively to game action where you shoot two, and then 20 minutes later go back for another 2. In practice you can stand there and get into a rhythm.

Remember the Denver game where the Nuggets sent dwight to the line on line 9 straight possesions. After a while not only was he making them, he wasn't even touching iron.

 

Yes, but if you shoots over 80% in practice and under 60% in game, something's not right.

 

In practice you are shooting them consecutively as opposed to in game where you are shooting a couple at a time. It's harder to get in rhythm.

 

With Dwight his mechanics are so poor and his shot is so flat and hard that there is no room for error. Since he isnt as loose in games as practice his timing is slightly thrown off resulting in alot more misses.