He has a better chance of scoring intentionally missing the FT and trying for the offensive board himself lmao.

I watched the Pacers try and fail to box him out with three guys at once in last year’s playoffs

Why does are his shot attempts so far down per possession if his ORB is so high? Does he pass out of every rebound or something? Dude is averaging like 2x as many offensive rebounds as shot attempts, and it doesnt look like the fouls explain it.

On one hand its impressive if he’s getting that many without relying solely on tip ins and put backs. On the other hand Im not really sure how you could even have that few attempts without Ben Simmons levels of shot avoidance.

He’d be in the HOF if he played 40-30 years earlier

second round players are often ridiculously unique when they actually become decent

Genuinely looks like someone who was raised in a gym that only had a hoop and no basketballs

there was a free throw here van gundy said “if there wasn’t a backboard it would have just kept going” one game i was dieing

people were joking about his ft% going into the 20s a few weeks ago, but dude might actually end up in single digit lmao

Andris Biedrins got in his own head and then shot 16%, 32%, 11%, 31%, and then 17% to end his career.

Never seen yips that bad in basketball berore

Dude should try underhand. 17% is way more embarrassing than a higher percentage with a granny shot.

Genuinely needs Jeremy Sochan’s shooting coach atp

of course when it was against us he started shooting 45% 😭

Clyde has been advocating for granny style

And it confirms the eye test. I’ve never seen someone shoot worse free throws in my life and I’m pretty old. If the rim is 10 ft his shot reaches a height of like 10 ft 11 inches.

Do you know why his record is listed as 74% when he shot 76% two years later? I thought it would be an attempts thing but he actually took more during his 76% season

If I was the GM I’d have a clause in the contract that he gets an additional 2m or something if he shoots fts underhand

if he can finally stay healthy for once for sure. but these last two offseasons ppl were saying we couldnt even trade him for much given how injury prone he is. as it is we’re keeping him off back-to-backs and holding him under 25 mins a game.

He doesn’t make hundreds of millions.

His contract is very team-friendly.

Ask Shaq

Have some respect to yourself ffs.

When people say something like this, what exactly do you mean? Do you think Mitchell Robinson, a 2nd round draft pick who has turned himself into an NBA rotation player and playoff starter, a guy who is literally setting records, doesn’t put in effort? Do you think he’s just going aww shucks, who cares about free throws, and not trying?

You don’t accomplish what he’s accomplished without an insane amount of hard work. He would obviously like to improve. What exactly makes you think he’s lacking self-respect, and what do you think more of that would achieve in this situation?

I promise you every NBA player, from Mitchell Robinson to Ben Wallace to Andris Biedrins, shoots thousands of free throws every year and tries to improve.

Or is the idea that this is so embarrassing that you think he should just give up and retire?

Nerves. Not everyone can handle the lights. Most of these guys are perfect in practice.

What I don’t get why Robinson (and Shaq and others) doesn’t make a conscious effort to get a much higher arc on his shot. His FT shot is so flat that it would be difficult to hit consistently even for a good shooter. In general more arc on the shot gives more room for error in making the basket, so for two shooters with equal variability in their shooting trajectory the one who shoots with a higher arc will make more shots.

There must be something about the physiology of players like Robinson and Shaq that makes it difficult for them to control shots with higher arcs. But I have to think that it’d be worth it to trade a little bit of precision for a much wider margin of error for making the shot.

Weirdly, Steven Adams has a 76.2% FT this season.  It was 36% just a few seasons ago

Funny enough https://youtube.com/shorts/kDpn2Zi4acM?si=QUojaqdeovmzTD1X

I mean he’s a career 50% FT shooter and is like 3-17 this year. So that’s about 6 points off the table lol

Not as many as you think. He only takes 1.2 FT’s per game. But yeah, he’s atrocious from the line. 

Also means you can’t play him in late game situations.

4.5. Bad, but not catastrophic. It’s up a lot from last year, so I’m not sure yet whether it’s small-sample weirdness or a difference in how Mike Brown is instructing him to play

lol that would be a terrible gamble given he misses like 20+ games a season

You have posted this comment almost word for word on the last like five Mitchell Robinson posts in this sub. Are you okay?

Done!

what is blud yapping about

i have no clue who you’re talking about

Bradley Beal?