NU is 136-th in the nation @ team free throw %. Not one player on the husker roster shoots great from the charity line. McVeigh & Watson are ok. I wouldn’t call them “great”. But the rest of the team is pretty pathetic. Nebraska basketball doesn’t have the talent to overcome being 136th in the nation @ free-throws.
I think there’s an easy fix here. Miles really needs to stress that guys like Jordy, Jacobson, & Morrow need to think about incorporating a granny shot for free throws. It’s the most frustrating part of watching basketball. Missed free. And I get that it’s hard for taller guys to make free throws since their hands and body don’t cooperate with how one shoots an overhanded free throw.
But there’s the key word “overhanded”. Statistics prove that shooting an underhanded free-throw will dramatically raise your free-throw % when you’re a tall person. Being tall is actually an advantage when shooting underhand from the stripe. But no one does it outside of Canyon Berry & Chinanu Onuaku. And both are success stories. It just doesn’t make any sense.
Rick Berry has reached out to guys like Howard & Drummond in the NBA about this. He told them he could dramatically raise their free throw % by teaching them an underhanded free throw. They basically told him, not interested due to it making them look like fools. They’d literally rather look cool and lose vs look bad and win. And this is why basketball will never be as great in my mind as football. If I told a linebacker, if you tackle “this way” you will dramatically increase your tackles and heavily reduce the amount of broken tackles you give up. However, you stance will make you look like a dork. How many football players would care how they look? Seriously. Or if I told a baseball player, you'll hit .300 if you choke up on the bat a little.
So if I am basketball coach and a kid is shooting less than 70% from the line, he’s going to have to try shooting granny shots. There is no excuses for being worse than 70% from the line. Even that’s low. When will coaches and players start seeing this? Am I wrong here? Does the form of shooting matter more than actually making the bucket?
I think there’s an easy fix here. Miles really needs to stress that guys like Jordy, Jacobson, & Morrow need to think about incorporating a granny shot for free throws. It’s the most frustrating part of watching basketball. Missed free. And I get that it’s hard for taller guys to make free throws since their hands and body don’t cooperate with how one shoots an overhanded free throw.
But there’s the key word “overhanded”. Statistics prove that shooting an underhanded free-throw will dramatically raise your free-throw % when you’re a tall person. Being tall is actually an advantage when shooting underhand from the stripe. But no one does it outside of Canyon Berry & Chinanu Onuaku. And both are success stories. It just doesn’t make any sense.
Rick Berry has reached out to guys like Howard & Drummond in the NBA about this. He told them he could dramatically raise their free throw % by teaching them an underhanded free throw. They basically told him, not interested due to it making them look like fools. They’d literally rather look cool and lose vs look bad and win. And this is why basketball will never be as great in my mind as football. If I told a linebacker, if you tackle “this way” you will dramatically increase your tackles and heavily reduce the amount of broken tackles you give up. However, you stance will make you look like a dork. How many football players would care how they look? Seriously. Or if I told a baseball player, you'll hit .300 if you choke up on the bat a little.
So if I am basketball coach and a kid is shooting less than 70% from the line, he’s going to have to try shooting granny shots. There is no excuses for being worse than 70% from the line. Even that’s low. When will coaches and players start seeing this? Am I wrong here? Does the form of shooting matter more than actually making the bucket?
