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How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:38 am
by Cyrusman122000
How can you tell and differentiate when a player is playing nervous and tight vs just having a bad shooting night or poor game like all players have from time to time.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:39 am
by CodeBreaker
Watch LeBron in 2011 Finals.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:45 am
by donkeylips
The commentators tell me
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:47 am
by Green89
Not making crisp passes. Apprehensive and not smooth in their shot.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:49 am
by jlokine
forcing shots, shooting out of rhythm, indecisiveness, hesitation, not shooting open shots, lack of confidence... another one is just a look.. roll back to george hill's face when he shot his free throw in game 1 before the JR smith gaff.. that blank stare he had when he was waiting for the ref to give him the ball, i had a strong sense he was going to miss..
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:51 am
by Lalouie
Cyrusman122000 wrote:How can you tell and differentiate when a player is playing nervous and tight vs just having a bad shooting night or poor game like all players have from time to time.
they think too much
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:57 am
by Chanel Bomber
Sometimes when they overcompensate by being unnecessarily casual or friendly on the court.
Curry in game 7 of the 2016 Finals with the behind the back pass. Lowry laughing with LeBron in the 4th quarter of game 1 in last year's ECSF. Deep down, these guys were tight.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:25 am
by Tracymcgoaty
Kyrie Irving game 7 in the finals 2016 when Cavs were up...i dont know what in the **** that dude was doing.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:36 am
by Heej
You can tell from their eyes. It's the deer in the headlights look. Their pupils dilate and their eyelids open up more. When they're locked in they look like Kawhi
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:41 am
by HBK_Kliq_33
Heej wrote:You can tell from their eyes. It's the deer in the headlights look. Their pupils dilate and their eyelids open up more
Siakam gives that look more and more as the rounds go on.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:42 am
by Priest24
They start to Derozan
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:06 am
by ballbrah
Eyes tell all
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:51 am
by JasonStern
they blow three consecutive 17 point second half leads against the Warriors. /sigh
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:09 am
by Bolivar
Heej wrote:You can tell from their eyes. It's the deer in the headlights look. Their pupils dilate and their eyelids open up more. When they're locked in they look like Kawhi
Yeah pretty much this. Also some more tells pictured here in JR, if you look at the positioning of hands and the overall posture. I'm sure at the end of that stare would be the deer in the headlights look.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:25 am
by Das
Doesnt take the open shot, when they do it's their mechanics is different. Over compensating which usually leads to overshooting it. Over passing.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:32 am
by Forbes
Indecisiveness- leads to bad passes/missed passes, pump fakes when they could’ve taken the shot, and foolish turnovers.
It’s usually not to hard to tell when a player is nervous.
Re: How can you tell when players are playing nervous/tight?
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:43 am
by Egg Nog
There are ways of noticing
