« Reply #94 on: January 25, 2018, 07:02:17 PM »
https://twitter.com/jonjohnsonwip/status/956284647713001473/video/1
Good Lord, somehow his shot is looking even worse the longer this thing drags on.
This has to be the yips at this point, right?
How the hell do you develop that kind of hitch in your shot, especially in a free throw?
Yeah, it has to be the yips. That’s a career-ender, potentially.
I’d lie to the kid, tell him his shoulder is damaged and he needs surgery, and somehow find a doctor who will perform something fake for him. He needs to believe that it’s not in his head, and the “rehab” hasn’t worked to do that.
That is a good approach.
However, they have already done that, saying he has a muscle imbalance.
The kid knows whats happening to him, he is smart.
I feel bad for him.
And really good about our end of the bargain.
That’s why you do a fake surgery. Find a doctor, tell him to examine him. If there’s something structural, fix it. If there’s not, tell him there is and pretend to fix it. Heck, have him tell the team the same thing he tells Fultz, so they don’t know either. Even if all you’re doing is removing a benign mole, he needs to think that there was actually something holding him back. And the coaching staff does too, frankly.
I’m sure it’s probably unethical, but he needs to go into surgery thinking there’s something wrong that he’s actually having a surgical procedure to correct, and wake up being told he had the surgery with a small scar to prove it. You can’t think your way out of the yips.
Sounds like something from black mirror
Great show. Start binging it a couple of weeks ago. Almost done with season three.
What SL is suggesting is dark and most likely unethical but it's an awesome idea.
There’s no “most likely” about it; it’s counter to most of Western healthcare's moral duties and obligations, specifically informed consent.
Are the “yips” actually diagnosable empirically as a medical condition, or are they purely psychological? Doing just a little bit of research, it seems that it can go beyond mere sports psychology and involve an actual neurological dysfunction.
Or are they a diagnosable psychological disorder?
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