Kansas Player Forgets How To Shoot Free Throws

Kansas Jayhawks’ junior guard Brady Morningstar, had a rough start to this season after being arrested for DUI in the offseason, as he was forced to sit on the sidelines for his club’s first 9 games of the season.

Upon his return, he has proved to be a great backcourt compliment to All-American candidate Sheron Collins and sophmore 2-guard Tyshawn Taylor, by averaging 6 points and nearly 4 assists per contest.

While the Jayhawks have all but proven to be the NCAA’s most complete team as the current #1 squad in the nation, they and all who where watching their game against the Texas Longhorns during Rivalry Week, were treated to a once in a lifetime funny moment by their third year guard.

Morningstar was selected by Kansas coach Bill Self to shoot free throws that were supposed to be shot by Cole Aldrich, since big Cole picked up a technical foul, his 5th personal, and earning a foul-out. Morningstar was an obvious choice to take the shots from the charity stripe, since he is a 75% free throw shooter on the season.

Coach Self had to be questioning his decision of choosing Morningstar after the player inexplicably forgot how to shoot a free throw.

As he finished his follow-through, he leans forward and shoots the ball a miniscule 6 inches in the air, jumps forward, catches the ball and then shoots it at the basket before his feet again touch the ground, almost as if he was afraid of traveling.

Brady’s explanation for the strange play is that the ball was wet and slipped on the way up, so he tried to shoot the ball before he crossed the line. Nice try.

Well, at least he gave the Longhorns something to smile about after the 80-68 defeat by the Jayhawks. The defeat gave them their 5th loss out of their last 7 games after being ranked #1 back on January 18th, and are currently sitting at 5-4 and in 5th place in the Big 12 Conference.

Check out Morningstar’s oddly unique free throw attempt:

Allen Moll is an avid NBA and College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania.  Allen is a regular columnist for thehoopdoctors.com, Bleacherreport.com, UpperDeckblog.com, and his own site, Hoops Haven.