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Here is that article on Nash: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 BRIAN McCORMICK ON WHY EVERYONE SHOULD SHOOT LIKE STEVE NASH I believe Steve Nash is the best shooter to play in the NBA, at least since the NBA incorporated the three-point line. While my belief is based primarily on observation, the numbers support the theory. John Hollinger, the creator of the player efficiency rankings, ranks Nash as the all-time #1 shooter based on a combined shooting range (CSR) which adds 2-point percentage, 3-pt % and FT%. According to Hollinger’s rankings, four players are career 180 Shooters: Nash (184.9), Steve Kerr (181.2), Reggie Miller (180.7) and Mark Price(180.7). Also, Steve Nash and Larry Bird are the only players to finish multiple seasons in the even more difficult 90-50-40 club (90% FT, 50% 2-pt FG% and 40% 3-pt FG%). Bird accomplished the feat twice, while Nash has accomplished the feat four times ('06, '08, '09, and '10). Based on the numbers, I do not see much room to argue for anyone else. If we agree that Nash is the best shooter of all time, why don’t more players emulate him? Last season during the play-offs, several NBA bloggers tweeted that players who mimic a shot before shooting a free throw shot a higher percentage than those who did not. This was anecdotal and observational, and not a real study, but science supports the claim.

Exactly, simple but the mind will not get in the way of the muscle memory, and if you have practiced it enough you will step to the line and shoot it at a good percentages, but their are not many kids that will learn to shoot it right or put in the time.  If they will they can shoot it at a good percentages and even the ones they do miss go in and out or hit back iron .  I do the same with my son, the only time I will interfere with his shooting approach is if I see it goign to the left or right, that means the off hand is playing a role in the ball going forward, if it is just hitting back iron it is because you are usually not releasing it high enough and the shot is flat.  But you can correct that pretty easy, if I was hitting backiron or I see a kid shooting hitting backiron I can usually adjust my release or get them to adjust their release and they will start making them.  Steve Nash IMO is the best shooter that has ever played, I posted an article on here on another thread where the stats backed it up.  But basically he is the only player to shoot 90 percent from FT line, 50 percent from the floor, and 40 percent from the 3 point line in 4 straight seasons and the only player to shoot it for his career.

The least amount of routine or mental approach to the FT will for most athletes be good for them.  You have some superior mental athletes that it really dosent matter what they do they are going to make them.  Keep the routine simple,  I have taught my son to approach it like Steve Nash,  he will visulize and go through the approach with out the ball, then when he is givin the ball he takes 3 dribbles, shoots, and holds the follow through until the ball hits the floor.  Alot of players will "pull the string" and not hold the release, you have to hold the release at leas until it is in the net.  I teach youth players who are trying to get their shots to hold the follow through until the ball bounces off the floor.  I call them "one bouncers", grooving your shot, or 2 second hold em.  It has seemed to work with the players who will listen. I disagree with whoever was saying that basketball is all about FT's, they are a very important factor, but there are too many aspects to say FT's are the sole determining factor in a game.  Are they any more important than a missed defensive assignment and your players scores a layup?  It is just that FT are alot easier to stat than a missed defensive assignment.

Congrats CH.  Continue the good work on to SFA. 

Will do.

Your correct, Woden only has 3 losses like woodville.  So they will have to have a playoff at some time or a coin flip or something to decided 2nd and 3rd.

I ma be wrong but I as thinking Woden had lost to CH's 2 times, Woodville once and Corrigan Camden beat them as well.

I think the standing are still CH with 2 losses which puts them in 1st by themselves, Woodville with 3 losses, and Woden with 4 losses.  1st, 2nd, 3rd, I believe with 2 games left. Aggies are We, you seem to have got alot of enjoyment out of them getting beat?!

Broaddus won.  I dont know the score though.

2nd district loss.  This will shake up the standings I think.  That puts CH with 2 losses. 

Does Jasper have anything coming up in the younger age groups?  I know they were pretty stout for a couple of years.  Are they looking to be average for a while or do they have any good players from JV and any returning starters?

We will see.  

Diboll has gotten better than the beginning of the year.  No one picked them to get 2nd or 3rd in this district, and the way it is lining up is for just that to happen.  The reason they lost last week is because they played the best team in district, Center.  Jasper has a decent team, but as someone earlier posted, the first team that comes along if they make the playoffs that has any "salt" to them will win.

speechless sounds right to me, it sounds like they are going the football way and basketball is what it is.  Until basketball is treated on the same fair ground as football, Dayton will struggle from now on.  To build a program you need a coach that knows what he is doing, (im not saying the one their dosent, I dont know) and the next thing as important as the first is that the basketball coach is able to do the things needed to be sucessful.  If they just bring in a good basketball coach and hamstring him, he want be their long if he is smart or go their if he can see it before he gets hired.  Good coach, and allow him the things he needs to do.  Give him a few years and Dayton can win.  If football is all that matters, then this conversation dosent matter.

I dont see Jasper making the playoffs, they are still in the hunt but I think if we started district today that Diboll would probably win district.  They have gotten better as the season goes on.  I see Center, Hudson and Diboll as top 3.  Jasper, if things fall right will get the 3rd spot but that will out them against a runner up in another district. 

whaalum, agree completely.  He thinks I am saying that because Knight used profanity he was a good coach.  I dont think it had anything to do with his coaching.  I think it is an example of a coach that was successful who used profanity.  I think Knight would have been as great if he would have never used a curse words, because hos greatness was in his teaching. People just read into something and dont understand the context.  If he wants to believe that I said that then oh well, he can.  I know Knight for what he is.  I just used him as an example for a coach that used profanity and it worked for him, I never said that he wouldnt have been as good without profanity.  Read the post a couple of times before you post back.

Good.

That is what I was thinking.  It will water the playoffs down bad.

Their contention and they are pushing hard is because the first team has a bye, that the 1st place Team in distirct, 50 percent of the time are losing, so they want to add the extra team so there will not be a layoff.  What I see is just another way for more games to be played for money?  Districts becoming rather irrelevant.  Some districts have only 4 teams, what happens then.  You are playing for a seeding and nothing more.  I say go back to 2 teams.  District games need more revelance. That is just my opinion.  3 is way too many to me, and 4 is crazy.  It is just one step forward in our society as Honest Abe put it where everyone wins and no one gets left out so they can feel good about them selves and hang another meaningless banner in the gym.  I will make a prediction that within the next 10 years, every school will make the playoffs, the district will be only for seeding factors and everyone can feel good.  What is winning anymore?  What have we reduced it to, to be considered a good team?  All they are doing by adding more teams is giving the chance for upsets to hapeen and adding more revenue.

That they voted this pst year on adding a team from 3A down to make 4 teams make the playoffs.  Their point is the layoff for the district champion is too long and causes them to lose some games.  Why dont they go back to the top two teams like it used to be, there are alot districts out there that have only 4,5,6 teams.  This would make district irrevelant.  What is everyones thoughts on this?  My opiinion is to go back to 2 teams.  If they want 4 teams in 4 and 5A, let them have it but if we are headed in this direction, why dont they just do away with district and have a playoff tournament with everyone in the state.  It looks like before long everyone will be getting in anyway.  What is everyones thoughts on this?

Congrats on the win Woodville.  If everything comes through as should with the rest of the games, yall should be having a playoff for 2nd.  If I am understanding this correctly.

First off I cant hardly understand what you wrote.  And I never said that Knight would have been less or more successful with using or without using profanity.  It was a blanket statement about a coach who used profanity and it worked for him.  IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS COACHING. He is probably my favorite coach and the best teacher to ever teach the game, but he used profanity.  It was not a deciding factor in him being good or not and I didnt say that, you read into what you wanted to believe.  That is what happens on message boards because people dont understand the context behind someones statements.  Bobby Knight was great because he was a great teacher and a great motivator.  He happen to use profanity when he chose, this did not have anything to do with his coaching ability.  mat, alot of times on these message boards you have to read something 2-3 times to understand the context, things can be added in someones mind or taken away in the readers mind that the person who posted meant.

I agree with no-look, I stated the district was weak at the beggining of the year as well, I was wrong.  The district is down, but it is not horrible.  There are a few good teams.  It is just going through a cycle, the district will be back up in a year or two. 

mat, no I didnt say that.  You can highlight all you want.  This is why I hat e message boards.  People read into things wrong, I did say that his cursing is what made him good, it was part of his process because that was the way he was. His way worked with using curse words, but I didnt say "he only cursed at them and that is why he was great".  Get your facts straight before posting rubish.

First, mat, no one said that the reason Coach Knight was successful was because he cursed.  It was jsut part of who he was.  It worked for him, did he get in trouble, not for cursing but for other things sure.  But no one said that because he coached he was successful.  6thman, we are talking about different forms of cursing or profanity.  I can almost guarantee you that every coach that has ever coached a practice or a game has at some point used a curse word.  Did it make him right, did it make him wrong.  As a Christian it is something we are not suppossed  to do.  But, what other things do we as humans do every day that is wrong.  I could make a very good argument that coddling a kid and teaching him that everything is ok even when its not, and that he will never lose, and that he will always be ok because he is who he is and it is ok to be that way even if he is lazy and has a bad attitude or a temper problem.  To me, you are doing the kid more wrong that way than jumping his butt when he does wrong.  We are talking about morality and the depth of the mind and the things we do each day shape not only our lives but those around us.  Sometimes, I know I need a good kick in the butt, others I need to be lifted up.  Are coaches who let a curse word slip anymore wrong than the coach who rolls the ball out and teaches the kid nothing about life?  Im just glad God is judging me and everyone else, he knows the heart, a curse word does not define someone or not define them.  It is a word, there are so many more travesties in our culture than a coach that teaches his butt off everyday and motivates to the upmost but happens to let a curse word slip.  To me he has done more good than a person that has not said a word all day.  The point comes to where to draw the line, and for everyone that line will be different, and we are not the people to judge at that point.