Roger FedorAIR
It ain't easy being white
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I'm at this family picnic today, and my girl's little cousin (14 yo) is shooting absolutely fucking LIGHTS OUT from 3. I'm talking 10 or 12 shots in a row before a miss.
I kept losing to this kid in every game of knockout, and of course I feel like a complete can. Then the kid starts schooling me on why I need to be looking up at the ball on my release, and not the rim. I practiced doing it for a little bit, and at times it felt like I was getting the hang of it, but for the most part, it made me shoot all airballs.
I recalled how in HS, one of my best friends (and best 3 baller on our team) shot looking up at the ball, but I never even discovered it until in college, when I realized that he was single handedly winning beirut tournaments, irregardless of how bad his partner was. Wanting to know how, I asked him, and he told me that he always look at the ball, never the target. He told me you look at the cup (or rim) to pick a trajectory, and then when you're ready to release, look at the ball to throw it into that trajectory (instead of the typical look at the target and throw it at the target).
I tried it, at both, bball and beirut, and I basically couldn't do it.
Anyways, I've been trying to practice since I got home, and even now that I'm on my couch, I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. So I wanted to ask the forum about where they look when they release:
A) Do you look at ball or rim?
B) Do you have any friends that look at the ball on release, and are they exponentially better shooters than everyone else?
C) For those of you that look at the ball, were you taught that way? Or did it come to you naturally?
I'm starting to wonder if one method is superior to the other, and if/when I have a son, if I should consider teaching it to him that way...
I kept losing to this kid in every game of knockout, and of course I feel like a complete can. Then the kid starts schooling me on why I need to be looking up at the ball on my release, and not the rim. I practiced doing it for a little bit, and at times it felt like I was getting the hang of it, but for the most part, it made me shoot all airballs.
I recalled how in HS, one of my best friends (and best 3 baller on our team) shot looking up at the ball, but I never even discovered it until in college, when I realized that he was single handedly winning beirut tournaments, irregardless of how bad his partner was. Wanting to know how, I asked him, and he told me that he always look at the ball, never the target. He told me you look at the cup (or rim) to pick a trajectory, and then when you're ready to release, look at the ball to throw it into that trajectory (instead of the typical look at the target and throw it at the target).
I tried it, at both, bball and beirut, and I basically couldn't do it.
Anyways, I've been trying to practice since I got home, and even now that I'm on my couch, I haven't been able to stop thinking about this. So I wanted to ask the forum about where they look when they release:
A) Do you look at ball or rim?
B) Do you have any friends that look at the ball on release, and are they exponentially better shooters than everyone else?
C) For those of you that look at the ball, were you taught that way? Or did it come to you naturally?
I'm starting to wonder if one method is superior to the other, and if/when I have a son, if I should consider teaching it to him that way...