O'Neal unveils new free-throw motion

by **sdude** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:44 am

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/basketball/heat/sfl-spheat13oct13,0,2503408.story?coll=sfla-sports-heat

can't wait to see it with my own eyes

by **Dan's Brain** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:47 am

one-handed free throws...well at least he couldnt be any worse.

p.s. ^^colin mochrie and whose line. fuck yeah!

by **Cornerthree** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:32 am

Changes are good... I can't tell if he improves, but it's good that he tries something new...

by BZ on Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:33 pm

At this point of his career where he can't really just bulldoze people as much as he can in the past, he HAS to improve his free throws if he still wants to score alot. :mrgreen:

by **KIG1** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:38 pm

Oh yeah, I can't wait to see these. I hope he is a good FT shooter, it would help out fantasy basketball so much.

by **maes** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:51 pm

Good idea to start practicing it one handed, forces you to get your palm under the basketball and put some arc on the ball instead of line driving it.

I'm also impressed that someone of his career is actually spending time in the summer trying to improve little parts of his game...there are scrubs who won't even practice FTs much less a superstar.

by **J@3** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:01 pm

I'm also impressed that someone of his career is actually spending time in the summer trying to improve little parts of his game...there are scrubs who won't even practice FTs much less a superstar.

By the sounds of things he's never really bothered trying anything drastic until now... I read an interview with some shooting expert who was brought in to help him with his FT's years ago and apparentely he didn't listen or really want to change anything at all. I would've thought after having this problem for so long, right at the end of his career is leaving it a bit late.

by **Laxation** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:10 pm

Jae wrote:I would've thought after having this problem for so long, right at the end of his career is leaving it a bit late.

Prides a bitch...

Its odd no one has posted it on youtube yet... And I dont know how much its gonna help him, hes still at 50%

by **Zoom** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:33 pm

I've read that shooting one handed has helped him get more of an arc into his shot. That must surely be better than what he was doing before. :wink:

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:50 pm

Jae wrote:
I'm also impressed that someone of his career is actually spending time in the summer trying to improve little parts of his game...there are scrubs who won't even practice FTs much less a superstar.

By the sounds of things he's never really bothered trying anything drastic until now... I read an interview with some shooting expert who was brought in to help him with his FT's years ago and apparentely he didn't listen or really want to change anything at all. I would've thought after having this problem for so long, right at the end of his career is leaving it a bit late.

I'd say he's doing it out of necessity. With advancing age and rule changes making him less of a force on offense the Hack-a-Shaq technique is much more effective. Back in the day he could shoot 5/14 from the stripe and still score 25-30 points whereas these days it stands out as even more of a weakness since he's not making up those points with his field goal attempts.

by **sdude** on Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:09 pm

"It looks a little nicer," Riley said. :applaud:

by **cyanide** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:29 am

Let's see if it'll take him past the 50% FT mark by the end of the season.

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:32 am

At least his FT's still better than Ben "no offense" Wallace.

by **Jackal** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:43 am

At this point of his career where he can't really just bulldoze people as much as he can in the past, he HAS to improve his free throws if he still wants to score alot.

Well he still can, because he's still huge, but as soon as he starts doing it, the refs call him for it. They call him differently now.

Few years back people actually tried to defend him, then Divac just resorted to falling down and since then.

Am I saying he's just as dominant as before? Nopes. Do they call him differently? Yeps.

by **Jowe** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:14 pm

wilt chamberlain used to shoot them one handed. Heck rick barry shot them underarm. Doubt it'll make a difference for Shaq though.

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:48 pm

I forgot about Wilt's FT shooting form (saw some Classic games), man that was ugly. Even uglier than Ben Wallace, imo.

Shaq: The Master of Shaquido.

YouTube · by **JaoSming** on Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:10 pm

heh, EA made that game :lol:

by **BIG GREEN** on Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:07 am

I owned that game on my Sega GameGear...it was the shit. Spent many hours on that when i should've been doing homework.

by **air gordon** on Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:28 am

man- he should just do it Granny style, like Rick Barry and later in his career, Wilt Chamberlain

by **Gundy** on Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:32 am

He should do it like Arnold from "Hey Arnold!".

O'Neal unveils new free-throw motion

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