How do you live with yourself if the most simple thing, the only thing that's a constant, same size ball, same size basket, same distance every single time you get to the line, with no one trying to prevent you from doing it, and you can't make four out of every five? You should be ashamed of yourself. That means you should try anything that's not against the rules in order to go and get more proficient at it. The bottom line of it is that you have to have enough personal pride to want to be the best you can be in whatever it is that you do in life. He said, "I'm a hip hop kind of guy and it would ruin my image." He didn't want to do it. (Nick Laham/Getty Images) HM: Do you think it's just more important to these guys to look cool than to be accurate? RB: Obviously it is. Why in the world wouldn't someone want to go and do something that experts in the field of physics have said is the most efficient way to do it and then learn the technique and go practice it? Everybody has been copycatting everything else in the world to try to do things that other people do exceptionally well, other than the underhanded free throw, and the way I did it.Ĭhinanu Onuaku of the Houston Rockets surprised the basketball world when he brought back the underhanded style of free throw shot. There's less moving parts. I mean there's so many positives to it. They all came out and said it's the most efficient way to do it. Physicists have done studies on it and you can Google it and find the reports that they did. HM: So what makes it so accurate? RB: It's a very soft touch shot. That's not masculine." I mean, it's ridiculous. Now, all of sudden, it's like, "Wow! You can't shoot that way. RB: I don't know why people have an aversion to doing it because in the old days men used to shoot that way and nobody made fun of them. HM: Explain to us the advantages of this underhand throw because most players aren't using it. I respect and admire that he's done this on his own and gotten himself 20 per cent better at the free throw line, which is a complement to him. Again, I'm not saying this to disparage him. HM: What's wrong with Chinanu Onuaku's technique? RB: There's a lot of things wrong with it: his feet are too wide, he's got too much wrist involved, he takes his hand off the ball.
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