![]() One year he made only 3 of every 10 shots, and in the 2000 season, when he managed to sink two free throws in a row during the playoffs, he made headlines (“Chris No Dud at Foul Line!” screamed the New York Daily News ). Sports columnists gripe about the bad free throw techniques of modern players like Shaquille O’Neal, but probably no one has suffered more public humiliation at the free throw line than former Knicks player Chris Dudley. There, the legendary “Big Dipper” sank barely 5 of 10 shots, one of the lowest percentages in professional basketball. The late Wilt Chamberlain, for instance, could shoot a basket from just about anywhere on the court-except when he toed up to the line 15 feet from the hoop. You do exactly the same thing over and over and over again.” Yet while Barry can easily sink 9 out of 10 shots, other players fall far short. “There’s nothing simpler in basketball, because you can take all the time you want to make it, and there’s nobody waving his arms in front of you trying to block you,” says Peter Brancazio, a physics professor emeritus from Brooklyn College and author of SportsScience: Physical Laws and Optimum Performance. Judging by mechanics alone, just about every foul shot should be a winner. ![]() “Nobody ever teased me, but then it’s hard to tease somebody when the ball keeps going in.” And amazingly, it worked.” Barry’s average from the free throw line bounced from 70 to 80 percent and kept on climbing when he became a pro. “I didn’t want any part of it, but my father drove me nuts until I tried it. “That’s the way little kids shoot, and it didn’t help that everybody calls it the ‘granny shot,’?” Barry says. While the youngster’s friends liked to shoot their foul shots, or free throws, in the respectable overhand style, the old man wanted Barry to toss them just as he did-underhand. Now that your preschooler has learnt overhand throw by applying the right force, reaching the right distance, and at the right height, you can hone his overarm throwing skills by engaging him in this fun activity.As a boy in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in the 1950s, basketball legend Rick Barry got some painful coaching lessons from his father, a semipro. Gradually, increase the distance between the net and your kid and this will help increase your kid’s throw height significantly. ![]()
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