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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 3806735, member: 7171"] Practice is important, but like anything else in sports if the mechanics are bad, it will have limited impact - unless the practice is being used to improve the mechanics. Practicing mistakes only gets you so far. A free throw shooter with good mechanics could take six months off and shoot it well immediately. You know it when you see it - relaxed wrist and forearm, soft knees, nice arc, lots of backspin, limited movement. Think Larry Bird. The latter one - limited movement - should be easiest to fix. But a lot of players are all over the place. Too many moving parts. Missing to the left or right should not happen at this level. I think most misses are long - because they are too stiff, don’t bend knees and release upward enough, ball doesn’t float enough. Not surprisingly, Paige has the best free throw mechanics on the team. [/QUOTE]