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Quote from: Chris22 on December 08, 2017, 01:50:32 AMQuote from: mgent on December 07, 2017, 01:18:52 PMQuote from: Chris22 on December 06, 2017, 03:09:22 PMLearn to shoot a hook shot with either hand. It makes it so easy, when you get the ball inside.You can go straight up and protect the ball with your body.I'm not sure who on our team you think struggles when they get the ball inside.Everyone who can't use their off hand.It's easy to learn to shoot with both hands. It just takes practice.And the hook shot is the easiest shot of all to learn.You act like these players don't practice or learn new things. This is their livelihood. Most have been playing ball their whole lives with numerous coaches teaching them. Coaches that know how to play the game as opposed to dudes on message boards. NBA level players constantly practice and try to improve their games. Marcus Smart constantly works on his shot, has top level coaching, but still can't shoot well. Basketball is really hard at the college and pro level. Most players know how to do the stuff Kyrie does but don't have that ability. You make it sound so easy behind a computer screen. Hey go out and learn a hook shot! It's so easy! You'll score 40 a game if you just learn this one neat trick! Al Horford would be unstoppable! As if a 31 year old and 11 year vet doesn't know how to do a hook shot. He might simply not have a good one and it's not easy.This reminds me of a story about Ted Williams being approached during spring training one year by a fan who told him his swing was all wrong and the fan offered to show him the proper way to swing a bat. At least they didn't have twitter and the internet back then.
Quote from: mgent on December 07, 2017, 01:18:52 PMQuote from: Chris22 on December 06, 2017, 03:09:22 PMLearn to shoot a hook shot with either hand. It makes it so easy, when you get the ball inside.You can go straight up and protect the ball with your body.I'm not sure who on our team you think struggles when they get the ball inside.Everyone who can't use their off hand.It's easy to learn to shoot with both hands. It just takes practice.And the hook shot is the easiest shot of all to learn.
Quote from: Chris22 on December 06, 2017, 03:09:22 PMLearn to shoot a hook shot with either hand. It makes it so easy, when you get the ball inside.You can go straight up and protect the ball with your body.I'm not sure who on our team you think struggles when they get the ball inside.
Learn to shoot a hook shot with either hand. It makes it so easy, when you get the ball inside.You can go straight up and protect the ball with your body.
It may have been easy for you to master, but for most of us mortals, the hook shot is not an easy shot. If it was easy, wouldn't every player have a good one?
Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.
Quote from: green_bballers13 on December 08, 2017, 03:13:59 PMIt may have been easy for you to master, but for most of us mortals, the hook shot is not an easy shot. If it was easy, wouldn't every player have a good one?I agree. If it was an easy thing to master, every big man would have a lethal hook shot in their arsenal.
I'm glad the hook shot is being brought up. I was just thinking, what if Joel Embiid was forced to pick up Shane Larkin on a switch? Wouldn't it be sweet if Larkin took Embid down low and had the ability to score on him using a hook shot?
Quote from: green_bballers13 on December 08, 2017, 03:13:59 PMIt may have been easy for you to master, but for most of us mortals, the hook shot is not an easy shot. If it was easy, wouldn't every player have a good one?Not if they haven't seen the memo.It's a secret technique that's no one's ever revealed to anybody on our team, thus why Chris22 created the thread.
Quote from: mgent on December 08, 2017, 07:08:16 PMQuote from: green_bballers13 on December 08, 2017, 03:13:59 PMIt may have been easy for you to master, but for most of us mortals, the hook shot is not an easy shot. If it was easy, wouldn't every player have a good one?Not if they haven't seen the memo.It's a secret technique that's no one's ever revealed to anybody on our team, thus why Chris22 created the thread.Tommy and Mike talk about it all the time. It's a forgotten shot.When people begin to insult you personally, it means you have won the argument.
Quote from: Chris22 on December 09, 2017, 12:48:01 AMQuote from: mgent on December 08, 2017, 07:08:16 PMQuote from: green_bballers13 on December 08, 2017, 03:13:59 PMIt may have been easy for you to master, but for most of us mortals, the hook shot is not an easy shot. If it was easy, wouldn't every player have a good one?Not if they haven't seen the memo.It's a secret technique that's no one's ever revealed to anybody on our team, thus why Chris22 created the thread.Tommy and Mike talk about it all the time. It's a forgotten shot.When people begin to insult you personally, it means you have won the argument.Maybe the thread is a little too broad, but Lamarcus Aldridge's epic beat-down of (the no longer DPOY candidate) Al Horford proved just how useful a hook shot can be down low. Our guy scored 2 points where his only basket was on a fall-away post jumper; Aldridge, well he scored 27 on what appeared to be a record amount of post-up hook-shots on which Al was totally helpless.