Dwight's freethrow. What to do?

dunleavyjr · Post #1 » by **dunleavyjr** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:40 am

There's going to be lots of Hack-a-Dwight. Guy just can't buy anything from the charity stripe. Any solutions?

1. Take him out late in the game?
2. Hire free throw coach?
3. Make him shoot 100 FT before each every game?

zapatasblood · Post #2 » by **zapatasblood** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:46 am

Nothing just go with it and pray to the gods he hits one or two.

HTown_TMac · Post #3 » by **HTown_TMac** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:47 am

zapatasblood wrote:Nothing just go with it and pray to the gods he hits one or two.

Basically..

We knew this before he signed.

tha_rock220 · Post #4 » by **tha_rock220** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:48 am

zapatasblood wrote:Nothing just go with it and pray to the gods he hits one or two.

Exactly. You can't bench your best player. Everything else he does helps you win.

MaxRider · Post #5 » by **MaxRider** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:52 am

his all mental
he just need to relax and let his muscle memory take over and just shoot it
problem is he think too much
catch and shoot usually goes in because of it
when you are wide open and you think too much you usually miss

Zubby · Post #6 » by **Zubby** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:54 am

Team needs to remember Dwight is on the floor for more than a couple quarters

MKL · Post #7 » by **MKL** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:57 am

I would sub out dwight if they go to HackaDwight. Doc did that with DeAndre.

tha_rock220 · Post #8 » by **tha_rock220** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:01 am

MKL wrote:I would sub out dwight if they go to HackaDwight. Doc did that with DeAndre.

Doc isn't benching his best big when does that though.

MKL · Post #9 » by **MKL** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:10 am

tha_rock220 wrote:
MKL wrote:I would sub out dwight if they go to HackaDwight. Doc did that with DeAndre.

Doc isn't benching his best big when does that though.

This is why we have Asik.

Get real man, homer aside, Dwight shot 33% FT tonight.

tha_rock220 · Post #10 » by **tha_rock220** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:12 am

MKL wrote:
This is why we have Asik.

Get real man, homer aside, Dwight shot 33% FT tonight.

Get real? You compared DeAndre Jordan to Dwight Howard.

MKL · Post #11 » by **MKL** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:17 am

tha_rock220 wrote:
MKL wrote:
This is why we have Asik.

Get real man, homer aside, Dwight shot 33% FT tonight.

Get real? You compared DeAndre Jordan to Dwight Howard.

33% FT!

tha_rock220 · Post #12 » by **tha_rock220** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:24 am

MKL wrote:
tha_rock220 wrote:
MKL wrote:
This is why we have Asik.

Get real man, homer aside, Dwight shot 33% FT tonight.

Get real? You compared DeAndre Jordan to Dwight Howard.

33% FT!

Yeah, it doesn't matter how valuable the player is. Any player who misses free throws get benched...because that's what Phil Jackson did to Shaq and Popovich did to Duncan.

inquisitive · Post #13 » by **inquisitive** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:28 am

you guys cant blame any loss on FT shooting anymore...we will miss alot of them...we knew getting howard that this was pretty much a given...just hope he gets 1 of 2 everytime and roll with it.

MKL · Post #14 » by **MKL** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:32 am

It's context isn't it. If you guys noticed, even McHale subbed out Howard on offense at the last 30 seconds in the 2nd overtime.

A good coach know when to protect the win and his players. Doc did that perfectly with DeAndre, there was no drama.

Howard didn't even want to touch the ball at the end of tonight's game, he was afraid to shoot FTs.

tha_rock220 · Post #15 » by **tha_rock220** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:36 am

inquisitive wrote:you guys cant blame any loss on FT shooting anymore...we will miss alot of them...we knew getting howard that this was pretty much a given...just hope he gets 1 of 2 everytime and roll with it.

Like I said, taking him out denies the Rockets everything he does well. Dwight got an offensive board and gave it to Jones to put the Rockets ahead for good.

LarsV8 · Post #16 » by **LarsV8** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:59 am

It is what it is.

If it is not better after nine years in the league, it is never going to improve.

dunleavyjr · Post #17 » by **dunleavyjr** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:00 am

I have an idea. How about asking Yao to be Dwight's FT coach? Yao is a big dude. He knows that secret at the charity stripe.

adrenaLINe · Post #18 » by **adrenaLINe** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:26 pm

LarsV8 wrote:It is what it is.

If it is not better after nine years in the league, it is never going to improve.

^ this

hungsizzle · Post #19 » by **hungsizzle** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:29 pm

Time to hire a hypnotist!

-Sizzle

minnytola1960 · Post #20 » by **minnytola1960** » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:09 pm

dunleavyjr wrote:I have an idea. How about asking Yao to be Dwight's FT coach? Yao is a big dude. He knows that secret at the charity stripe.

At this point in Dwight's career, I doubt there is much in the way of coaching or practice that can help him significantly improve his free throws. I'm sure that he's already spent hundreds of hours of his career going through that routine. At this point, it's all mental. You could make him shoot 1000 free throws before every game or make him practice them 8 hours a day and it still probably won't be of much help in an actual in-game situation.