All-Star center DeAndre Jordan was never good enough from the free-throw line, and teams intentionally fouled him late in games just to get him to the charity stripe so that he could miss. However, the former Los Angeles Clipper suddenly became a respectable free throw shooter last season, and now Jordan is talking about his improvement.
DeAndre Jordan admits tuning out the crowd helped him become a better free throw shooter #Netshttps://t.co/CShdPmLHXj
— Nets Nation (@NetsNationCP) August 5, 2019
“For me, Hack-a-Shaq sucked a lot,” said Jordan, per Brian Lewis of the New York Post. “It sucked big time. I used to go hide [from opponents looking to foul]. [I thought] I don’t like this. But after years of that, I got a little better at it this past season and I’m shooting the ball a little bit better.
“I hit a lot of them in practice,” he continued. “I think it’s the 20,000 people [that affected me]. This season I actually didn’t think about anything other than shooting the basketball and it helped me out a lot.”
The new Brooklyn Nets center was a career 44.6 percent shooter from the line before the last season. He jumped to 68.2 percent with the Dallas Mavericks and was even better, 77.3 percent, with the New York Knicks.
DeAndre Jordan has a new routine at the free throw line
He’s shooting 68%, up from his career average 45.9% pic.twitter.com/uBDv18OUSh
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 23, 2019
