Dion Waiters shot 68 percent from the free throw line last season, bad for a guard. So he looked at film this summer and noticed a trend. Most of his misses drifted left.
Waiters conversed with his shooting coach and decided to test a new style, sliding a step to the right for free throws. “The first couple times it felt weird,” he said.
But Waiters, always the free basketball spirit, wasn't swayed from the kooky correction. He was convinced he needed to amp it up. “I moved even more to the right,” he said.
Starting this preseason, Waiters is shooting free throws cockeyed, closer to the right elbow than the center of the lane.