![]() Massive practice can get you a long way, but with the same amount of practice, but without that coordination talent, your ceiling is much lower.Įverybody keeps complaining about the poor free throw shooting of guys like Big Ben, Shaq, Dwight and Dre. Those who got it right at 8, were in 95% of the cases the best ones at 18. I used to be an amateur youth coach and I've seen many kids develop. It's perfect coordination, and quite beautiful to watch. Like when throwing a ball (or shooting a basketball) it's not only their arm that is involved it's more like a power wave that starts from their feet and moves through their body, arm, wrist and finger. Their whole body is involved in what they do. It's easy to see who has "it" - their movements and stroke are fluid. Some people just seem to have it right from day one, some people never get it after 10 years of practice. I believe it's mostly a brain-neurological-muscle thing. IMHO, shooting has to do with fine grained, precise body control, which is basically something you are born with. There is no doubt in my mind he will still be a great free throw shooter. That would simulate a taller guy with bigger hands. Let's assume you give a great NBA free throw shooter (6'6" with normal arms & hands) a WNBA ball and lower the rim 5". The "big hands argument" and the "being too tall argument" (not mentioned here, but elsewhere) don't make any sense to me either. However, "having long/short arms compared to height", how would that correlate? How does the 6'9" arm know it's attached to a 6'5" or a 7'1" body? How would that affect shooting? Personally I'm pretty sure you wouldn't find any correlation. But I doubt it (and I'm a trained Mechanical Engineer). The explanation could then have something to do with physics - long/short stroke, leverage etc. So if you could correlate shooting ability to these, you might have a case. ![]() "Having long arms" or "big hands" is not a relative, it's an absolute. ![]()
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