free throw

For all of LeBron James’s seemingly endless talents on a basketball court, shooting free-throws hasn’t always been one of his fortes. James is a 74 percent shooter from the charity stripe for his career, but has struggled this season and is shooting a career-low at 67 percent. LeBron, the perfectionist that he is, is highly [...]

Lucas Nogueira is a third-year player out of Brazil who is seeing his first consistent playing time in the NBA this season. He is a valuable shot blocker and rebounder in a reserve role for the Toronto Raptors playing 19 minutes per game. Fun fact, when I was in Las Vegas for NBA Summer League [...]

Say goodbye to Hack-a-Shaq. It’s all but gone. From Tim Bontemps of The Washington Post: After years of debate over whether the strategy of fouling a weak free throw shooter in order to force him to take foul shots has a place in the NBA, it appears the league will find a way to eliminate [...]

The NBA has had enough of Hack-a-Shaq. No, seriously, it has. Talk of change has been prevalent for a while, but nothing was done over this past offseason to address the tactic that entails teams intentionally fouling poor free-throw shooters. But it looks like something will be done this summer. As commissioner Adam Silver said, [...]

August 26, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors The similarities between Dwight and Shaq are alarming. Dominant Orlando big men? Check. Both nicknamed Superman? Check. Hired a free-throw coach while in Orlando? Check. They even had the same shooting coach. In his quest to become a better free-throw shooter, Dwight Howard has turned to a man [...]

December 28, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol In the NCAA college basketball contest between Idaho State and Utah State last week you wouldn’t expect anything amazing to happen. All in all the game was quite dull. Except for one particular free throw by Idaho State’s Kamil Gawrzydek. He tossed the ball toward the rim in [...]

December 6, 2010 – Dr. Dime We all know there is a lot of pressure on athletes to perform. We also know that NBA players undertake a borderline OCD level of routine when it comes to how they approach free throw shooting. To become one of the greats you need to be so repetitive in [...]

Each week in The Hoop Doctors “Skool for Ballers” we will bring you tips, analysis, or drills on various aspects of the game to help guide your training to be the best damn baller you can be! Don’t forget, being a GREAT baller takes as much work off the court as it does on! By [...]

June 12, 2008 – Dr. Browntorious If any of you caught Wednesday night’s game, you would have seen something you’ve seen all year long, but didn’t see in Game 1 or 2 of this series. For one, you had good old Jack sitting in his usual courtside seats cheering away. Second, you saw the fans [...]

  June 10th, 2008 – Dr. Dime Kobe Bryant and company need to attack the rim more. Check. Kobe came out to start this game with one intention in mind. Go hard to the rim, using his athleticism, and absolutely punish the opposition. And it worked. Kobe closed the game with 18 free throw attempts, [...]