Eight
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Yes, I'm saying it from experience. I can assure you that I'm a far worse shooter now than I was in my younger days. I think you're underestimating the difference between just picking up a ball and shooting in a gym and shooting while in a game. If I'm just shooting by myself then I could be mistaken for someone who hasn't lost his touch. But as soon as I start running around and shooting contested shots is when the lack of practice hits you.
All I'm saying is that you can't drop couch potato Joe into a game situation and expect his backyard free throw percentage to carry over. That's not a controversial statement to make. It's just a fact. So it irritates me sometimes when people so flippantly say things like that.
For Alex, he's not the most gifted shooter in general to begin with, so when you throw in all the other factors then this is what you get. And I wouldn't doubt at all Fisher and similar shooters to him can probably make 40, 50, 60 free throws in a row if they're just standing in a gym doing nothing else.
bingo, it is amazing what the mind can do to make a simple physical action such as shooting a basketball, throwing or catching incredible hard.
have a very good friend, been successful professionally, plays golf 2-3 times a week, and he damn near took a spectator's head off on the first tee of a pro-am. might have been couple hundred people and he said he felt like he was 12 years old trying to do everything his grandfather had just told him when he was learning to play golf. 40 years of muscle memory flew out the ear and it was sheer panic according to him when he started his downswing.