technical basketball details etc

guide hand pushing the ball into the shooting hand kinda interesting

Guide arm & hand is creating pressure of the ball into the shooting hand putting the flexors on stretch (including the finger flexors)

So much so, that the main fingers that impart force are prioritized (pinky off then back on for lateral stability at release)@bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/eEjCRLLa7F

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) February 12, 2023

It's a free throw bro please put down the thesaurus

— Alex Hines (@NYJetsGOAT) February 12, 2023

let bbiomechanics cook

Always a pleasure talking to Hornets head coach Steve Clifford, one of the most candid guys we have in the league.

Asked him where he sees defense going in the midst of the offensive explosion league-wide, and got a really detailed response. pic.twitter.com/dQkKx38t2P

— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) March 2, 2023

yeah interesting stuff about offenses all playing the same these days and defense needing to take the initiative back. i do think there is room for defenses to improve. possibly there will be more of a focus on lineup consistency to allow for better team defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE5VsBDoZEg

horf explains his weird shooting form, spoiler it just happened and he couldnt stop

What is @TyHaliburton22 looking for when running PnR?

He answered that on the latest episode of @dunkerspotpod

Apple: https://t.co/GenUklE8It

Spotify: https://t.co/Ny8i9uOkqD pic.twitter.com/7eV5nWwqoa

— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) April 4, 2023

That was a great ep. Of the Dunker’s Spot.

would love to get hali and kd together talking technical basketball details

one would think these guys like to be asked about this stuff rather than the typical sportswriter shit

his legs are so far apart when he shoots

The LA crowd is booing Dillon Brooks in warm-ups and cheering when he misses 😅

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— ESPN (@espn) April 23, 2023

yeah that doesn’t seem comfortable or repeatable

klay is the great shooter that has a notably wide stance but its not that wide

https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/editor/2018/03/3cc52-1520254103-800.jpg

shooting for perfected

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5cdaddb77bf70b38e5de7d5b/4:3/w_2456,h_1842,c_limit/Cunningham-CurryWarriorsRockets.jpg

Lmaooo

eyes on the rim hes thinking about it

The mythical no dip shot from Klay, plus sprinting to his right. This is the absolute hardest type of catch and shoot there is for a righty, and the pinnacle of shooting skill pic.twitter.com/furuTnMOjQ

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 5, 2023

feel like ive seen a lil more no dip action recently but the shooter is always still trying to generate some sort of rhythm with like a lil lean back spring forward thing but sometimes klay just goes right up with it

Pat Connaughton does it. As well as Pat Connaughton can.

it just seems unnecessarily difficult but im not a professional shooter

defensive mistakes guy full roasting of joel embiid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIDDVZ-cp18

why are they like this

https://twitter.com/johnhollinger/status/1657387864785666049

why you delete tweet of college team doing seven dribble handoffs in a row five feet behind the 3pt line

https://i.imgur.com/LSQfgis.jpg

casting a spell on the ball

Without looking at the comments what stands out to you about this video:

Gilbert Arenas daughter Izela dropped 38 points at Nike Nationals today 👀 @teamwhynot @NikeGirlsEYBL pic.twitter.com/LKxpzZrHlv

— Courtside Films (@CourtsideFilms) July 8, 2023

ball has almost no rotation on her shots? never seen anything like that before that i remember

that s crazy i dont think i could do that if i tried

Yah I’m dumbfounded how is it possible

i tried to do the izela arenas no rotation shot today and i don’t understand the physics of it

its gotta be an illusion lol. the science of it really makes no sense.

I just watched the video like five more times in the exact way I would watch a video of a magician doing a card trick

i think she is giving it heaps of off hand thumb. like a chest pass

interesting

Interesting trend from the Korean Basketball League where a number of players are 80%+ from the free throw line shooting exclusively bank shots. pic.twitter.com/OBKmVW3pfa

— Eric Fawcett (@EricFawcett_) August 31, 2023

looking into this

i used to do this when i was 8 and it worked, confirmed

lol yeah that’s how I shot fts when I was a small child

i remember on my friends fucked up backboard if you hit the top right corner of the small square it would go in every time

those carrot uniforms are pretty fire

banking free throws is much harder imo! maybe something to try for people that suck at them tho?

i feel like you can kinda launch it, don't need to worry about arc so much just bang the middle of the square

Cam Johnson and I breaking down shooting going right and the mechanics required to do it well. Lots more on this discussion in link below! pic.twitter.com/amLTIkun2a

— JJ Redick (@jj_redick) September 28, 2023

smh jj doesnt want children to know the shooting secrets

f* them kids

https://theswishtheory.com/analysis/2023/10/the-mind-of-a-defensive-menace-cognitive-athleticisms-impact-on-defense/

Caruso is so good. Pretty much the only way I make it through Bulls games is just focusing on him playing defense, it's a joy to watch.

i like this in that its drawing attention to lesser known things but im not sure if its clarifying to call them all athleticism, i guess i could "listen to the podcast" to get the full argument

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FY17U6EUUAAjuJQ?format=jpg&name=large

that's a nice-looking ppt

you know what thinking basketball do good work i like em

The Milwaukee Bucks are 29th in defense to start the season. Gonna thread some clips from my film session here as we try to find out *why* this is the case.

First, a P&R switch, but looks like Giannis is trying to scram Dame out of the mismatch, but Dame seems to not know that: pic.twitter.com/c3hmgAMOqx

— Jason Timpf (@_JasonLT) November 3, 2023