A modest proposal for the NBA’s big guys.
Nearly 2 million people have watched nine different clips of Korean basketball players making free throws. Why’d it go viral?I reached out to Fawcett, who put together that video for the masses. He’s a basketball coach who consults with a few Division I teams, focusing on strategy and analytics. I asked him how the hell he stumbled upon this beautiful thing. His answer was lovely.
“I kind of have this FOMO where I’m scared there will be an offensive concept that’s revolutionary going on around the globe and me not knowing about it,” Fawcett told me. “So I’m constantly watching other leagues to see if there is anything innovative I can bring to the college game. So, this time I thought I’d check out Korean basketball.”Good thing he did, because now I’m thinking the bank shot is poised to make a comeback.
I’m sure of one thing: Somewhere, Tim Duncan is smiling. He was called the Big Fundamental mostly because of the bank shot. The world’s shot guru Kirk Goldsberry once figured out that if you bottled up all the bank shots made by the 10 best scorers in the 2018–19 season, you’d barely reach Duncan’s total inchart Goldsberry made for a delightful 8-minute video on Duncan’s bank shot.
about this very thing. Apparently, you can gain an advantage of 20 percent on bank shots in some areas of the floor compared with what they call “direct” shots. Duncan, the genius he is, already knew this, of course.After five years and millions of simulations on a court, Silverberg and his colleagues determined that the best way to shoot a free throw was to … not bank it.• 3 hertz. “It takes about 1 second for a ball to reach the basket, so 3 hertz equates to three revolutions in the air.
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