DD, Dave... How about not piling on? too hard? Ok... How about if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything? That would be really hard too... whatever, It just gets a little old.
There's no team in the league in which Ariza would be the best player or second best for that matter, hell I'll even stretch that to third.
Shoot underhand, Rick Barry style. From a physics standpoint, I believe it is the easiest way to make them.
Great shooters don't have to have weird free throw habits. Great shooters would probably make 80% blindfolded.
I think Trevor could improve his FT% to 85%, IF he is allowed to shoot from the dotted line in the paint. After all, there is no rule about how far behind the FT line one can stand. :grin:
Sorry Reek but if a player is sucking, I am going to speak about it, if he is playing well, gonna do the same. Regarding this topic, he is just not a good shooter, the evidence is all over the place, and honestly I am surprised Morey did not see it. DD
That's BS, an eleven yr limb length, hand size, etc are not even close to ariza's. Some ball players cant mechanically shoot the ball well enough to shoot a good %. That's why huge players usually have so much trouble. Ariza's wingpsan might be the issue here. It's not always about practice.
and i can't imagine someone who plays as much as a pro player would not have a ritual. You can't help but have one after so many reps. Just because we can't count dribbles or see a sign doesnt mean he doesnt have one. Personally i spin the ball, but prior to that i dribble a few times, but i never count the dribbles. I stopped dribbling when i feel relaxed. That's a ritual as well, but a fan may not pick up on it because it's not exact.
True he doesn't dribble in his FT routine, but he does spin the ball. He spins it twice...once with backspin, once with front spin (which is odd for a free throw routine, especially when it's the last spin before his shot which is about to have backspin), then a knee bend, then shot. I can't believe I just broke down a player's FT routine in a thread.
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Sure it is, think about it. He gets a lot more time to rest so that when he is shooting free throws he can get his legs into it and make more of them. Put him on the bench for about 28 minutes a game, just like last year with the Lakers and he can go back to being effective again. DD
So you're saying Ariza has perfect shooting form but he his hampered because of his size? Um, I don't think so. I'm sure that the Rockets' best FT shooter (Yao) was a horrible shooter for a long time. He's is not athletic. He is not very coordinated. But he works and works and works. Now he considered a top FT shooter. Ariza is an unfortunate product of American basketball in the last couple of decades. He is very athletic. He is tall. He has an incredible wingspan. But he lacks some very basic basketball skills He should be a much better dribbler. He should be a much better shooter. The first few things got him into the league but dribbling and shooting are a matter of practice and I suspect Ariza and a host of other players simply don't work at becoming premiere player. Why should they? They make millions the way they are. They aren't driven like (say) Kobe to improve their games.
if you're being for real here, you're saying it's a fatigue issue.. in which case, conditioning and strength would as much an answer as the bench
Cutting Ariza back to 20 or even 25 minutes a night would go a long way toward making him more productive IMO. His focus seems very poor over the course of the games and I don't think that is something that can be fixed. Put him in a limited role, tell him EXACTLY what is expected from him and let him loose. I doubt he'll be anything to brag about but I'll bet the TEAM does better. I'd prefer to see him come off the bench but at the end of the day all I care about is that his minutes go down and that he is not on the floor to close out games (unless he his having one of his bi-monthly games where he is shooting above 50%).
