On April 11 2015 11:39 RowdierBob wrote: Houston's commentary team is painful to listen to.
Agreed, almost muted towards the end.
Spurs streaking hard at the right time. Beat warriors, dallas, grizz, okc twice and houston twice over last 10 games.
Also hacking is fine, players should learn to shoot and GMs should build rosters that don't have 3 hackable guys on it.
the TSN Raptors crew might as well run around in miniskirts with pom-poms in their hands.
its almost all canadian guys that couldn't get jobs in the US. or really bad former players , that again couldn't get a job in the US.
Jack Armstrong is the only guy that really gives you the ugly truth. he really knows what he is talking about, but he doesn't have that "Dan Shulman"/anchorman-type presence. So he only occasionally gets work south of the border.
On April 11 2015 21:20 Vindicare605 wrote: Lol people still think something NEEDS to be done about Hack-a-shaq.
It's a legit strategy. It sucks to watch for sure, but it's a legit way to expose a weakness in a roster in crunch time.
It's fucking pathetic that NBA professionals can have such abysmal free throw shooting anyway.
i'm sorry but i don't agree, it doesn't expose weakness in a roster in crunch time...mainly because you can't hack during crunch time...it affects far longer periods of the game than just crunch time...
if you can't make your FTs even at a 50% clip, count your lucky physical talent stars that you are a basketball player. i don't see anything wrong with the tactic when the weakness is so huge
On April 11 2015 21:20 Vindicare605 wrote: Lol people still think something NEEDS to be done about Hack-a-shaq.
It's a legit strategy. It sucks to watch for sure, but it's a legit way to expose a weakness in a roster in crunch time.
It's fucking pathetic that NBA professionals can have such abysmal free throw shooting anyway.
Completely agree. Never understood how the sub-50% FT shooters can't learn that shit once and for all. If it's such a problem that one of the most basic basketball situation, and essentially free points, can be used against you, you should change something about your play, not the rules of the game.
after extensive practice if a player can't shoot 50% from the free throw line i think they should practice and experiment with throwing underhanded. they have nothing to lose.
Shaq apparently had some old wrist of hand injury that messed up his shooting stroke. He would've been a great candidate for the underhanded technique.
Why is anyone defending a strategy that makes the game less fun to watch, attend or play? The rules should always be changeable to improve the game and that's such an obvious fix.
On April 11 2015 23:41 Haiq343 wrote: Why is anyone defending a strategy that makes the game less fun to watch, attend or play? The rules should always be changeable to improve the game and that's such an obvious fix.
There are some things that are hard to change without causing all sorts of unintended effects. It's like trying to prevent tanking.
Why don't more players who suck at them go off the glass on free throws? I never played organized basketball, but making free throws off the glass is so easy and not hard to repeat the motion consistently. I've seen people suggest underhand before but i think bank shots are even better. They probably just don't wanna hurt their pride lol.
Underhanded is pretty solid. Rick Barry tried to teach Andris Biedrins (maybe historically bad free thrower?), but he was too proud to do it at the NBA level.
On April 12 2015 04:59 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Rick Barry had 4 sons play at a very high level.. i think they were all NBA players. and none of them adopted the underhanded free throw.
None of his sons were troglodytes. Although Jon is a little weird looking. And Dave Barry. Fuck that loser.
On April 11 2015 22:02 oneofthem wrote: if you can't make your FTs even at a 50% clip, count your lucky physical talent stars that you are a basketball player. i don't see anything wrong with the tactic when the weakness is so huge
I agree. Shouldn't change the rules to cover the abysmal FT shooting for a couple players.
EPT
nvm no Illuminati rigging game
