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Message: [QUOTE="Crank, post: 3167760, member: 9692"] You can never remove the dork aspect of shooting that way, and for that reason, and with today's heightened emphasis on always being a bad ass, there's no way you'll ever get more than one or two free spirits shooting it. Regarding the oft-cited Rick Barry, the right question to ask is, "what would Rick Barry shot if he had shot overhand?" Guy may have shot 92% instead of 90%. Impossible to know. Regarding the handful of players who switched to UH and showed immediate improvement over OH, perhaps they had particular mechanics issues that the underhand technique improved or eliminated, but that doesn't mean it would necessarily translate to every player. Also, most guys who switched were abysmal free throw shooters to begin with, and that could well mean that they're 2 or 3 deltas out on the FT bell curve, and therefore outliers. [/QUOTE]