dobrojim wrote:Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:dobrojim wrote:re Ves and the FO's inability to develop him, the mistake there is 2 fold:
1. The FO shoulda/coulda done a better job at evaluating his mental characteristics
as to whether he was likely to be the personality type that would work long and hard
to address weaknesses in his game. His 28% FT avg is sufficient evidence that he does
not possess the psychological makeup imperative to better achievement. So they failed
in that respect.
2. That's been on him for not developing, not the FO which as I state above
failed to identify either/or the extent to which he was raw vs his obsession
in getting better. But he failed in being sufficiently determined to improve.
Vesely's FT shooting is a mental block IMO. It can be cured very easily.
sorry. With all due respect, there is no evidence to substantiate that
and lots of evidence to refute it. If it was easy, it would have already happened.
To be fair, he was shooting FTs in the mid 60s prior to being drafted. It was clearly a weakness, but that's to be expected to some extent for big men. The fact that he has managed to get substantially worse at FTs in 3 years, along with his publicized anxiety issues with FTs in the NBA, indicate that there's something wrong on his end, not ours. You can't really coach stuff like that at the NBA level. If you get nervous in front of that big of a crowd and let it affect your game, that's on you, and even a trained sports psychologist is going to have trouble correcting that.