Gabby...a question

[Sonny44]

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Love it.

 

[stamfordhusky]

Wilt, Shaq & Rondo all have problems shooting free throws (& come to think of it, prolly Andre Drummond as well), have HUMONGOUS hands & that becomes an issue at the line. Don't think that's a problem Gabby faces, so her free throw shooting should improve with (lots of) practice. Ray Allen, an excellent shooter at the line at UCONN & in the NBA has said that the only time he feels uncomfortable on the court is when he's at the line because all of the attention is focused on him. Maybe that's some of Gabby's problem. In both cases, it's certainly fixable.

1. Wilt could make a high pct of FT's in practice, so it wasn't necessarily hand size. There are many NBA players with huge hands who hit a high pct.

2. Gabby's issues may be fixable - but it's far from certain. Many players who struggle from the line put in huge amounts of practice time and don't improve. Hopefully she is not in that category.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Wilt also went 28-32 from the FT line in his 100 point game, but that was early on in his career when his FT% wasn't quite so terrible. At some point bad mechanics, possibly from some type of chronic injury, crept in.

 

[stamfordhusky]

Wilt also went 28-32 from the FT line in his 100 point game, but that was early on in his career when his FT% wasn't quite so terrible. At some point bad mechanics, possibly from some type of chronic injury, crept in.

Wilt's mechanics were bad at all stages of his career. But I saw many NBA games in person where he was making over 80% of FT's in practice. And I saw games later in his career where he was hitting a good percentage of 20-footers in practice, going head-to-head with Jerry West. For Wilt, it was 90% mental.

 

[Jim]

A while ago on one of Geno's post-game interviews or something like that, Geno was asked about Gabby's foul shooting. He mentioned that he and the coaching staff were working with Gabby on her jump shot and FT shooting. He said they thought the problem was that Gabby had too high of an arc on her shot, which when the ball caught iron it would hit hard and bounce away instead of landing softly and dropping into the hole. The coaching staff was trying to get Gabby to change her shot, which, considering all the other things she has had to learn moving to a new position, seems like a lot for a freshman to take in all at once.