It’s only weird if it doesn’t work, right?
Dirk Nowitzki, the face of the Dallas Mavericks franchise, recently talked about some struggles he had on the free-throw line earlier in his career.
To fix those problems, his coach told him to sing a tune to let the pressure off. Nowitzki’s song of choice? “Mr. Jones” by Counting Crows.
“I got this coach of mine,” Nowitzki said in a recent interview with Mavs.com, “and his idea one time when I missed a couple pressure free throws a while back, and he said, ‘I think you’re a little bit too tense, trying to focus too much.