We’ve seen it happen in sports before. A player gets the yips. Hoops players suddenly can’t hit a free throw. A second baseman can’t throw to first. A golfer develops a case of the shanks. It happens to even the most accomplished professional athletes and when it does, it creeps into their heads, weighs on their minds and erodes confidence. Enter Justin Tucker.
For Tucker, the first four weeks of the season were a struggle. Heading into yesterday’s game he was 5 of 8 on field goal attempts and since the start of the 2023 season, he was just 1 of 7 on FGA’s from 50 yards plus.