Aggies have the yips

feeah · Post by **feeah** » January 19th, 2022, 8:39 am

Yips is generally a term used in golf when good players inexplicably can't putt any more, start missing 3 and 4 footers all the time.

The aggies have this from the 3 point line, we have good 3 point shooters but the whole team has the yips.

The team has lost their confidence from the 3 point line, not sure what the solution is though. Probably need to keep shooting them until they start falling.

Post by **treesap32** » January 19th, 2022, 8:44 am

They also have the yips from the FT line. Especially in pressure situations (i.e. end of the game or front end of 1-and-1's).

Elkaggie · Post by **Elkaggie** » January 19th, 2022, 8:49 am

treesap32 wrote: ↑
January 19th, 2022, 8:44 am
They also have the yips from the FT line. Especially in pressure situations (i.e. end of the game or front end of 1-and-1's).

Yip

NVAggie · Post by **NVAggie** » January 19th, 2022, 9:05 am

Shooting is equal parts mechanical and mental. Most people spend a lot of time on the mechanical aspects of shooting. Those who can master the muscle memory and mechanics are good shooters. To be a great shooter, you often hear about the killer instinct. A belief in one's self that every shot is going to fall. We have a lot of good shooters, but not a single great shooter on this team is to be found.

I have found that there are reset mechanisms that you can implement in your shooting warmups or practices that may help. There should be spots on the court one can go to that will reset your mental game. I always like the free throw extensions. I can hit that shot well above 50% in any manner in a warmup.

UStateTim · Post by **UStateTim** » January 19th, 2022, 9:35 am

I feel like Horvath has this specifically from the foul line. He just needs to just get the ball and shoot, rather than stare so much. I loved watching Merrill’s routine of one dribble, spin the ball, and shoot. Or he can adopt the Rick Barry granny shot method

Mr. Sneelock · Post by **Mr. Sneelock** » January 19th, 2022, 10:19 am

NVAggie wrote: ↑
January 19th, 2022, 9:05 am
Shooting is equal parts mechanical and mental. Most people spend a lot of time on the mechanical aspects of shooting. Those who can master the muscle memory and mechanics are good shooters. To be a great shooter, you often hear about the killer instinct. A belief in one's self that every shot is going to fall. We have a lot of good shooters, but not a single great shooter on this team is to be found.

I have found that there are reset mechanisms that you can implement in your shooting warmups or practices that may help. There should be spots on the court one can go to that will reset your mental game. I always like the free throw extensions. I can hit that shot well above 50% in any manner in a warmup.

Do you have eligibility left? We could probably use a guy like you.

FloridaAggie13 · Post by **FloridaAggie13** » January 19th, 2022, 12:14 pm

NVAggie wrote: ↑
January 19th, 2022, 9:05 am
Shooting is equal parts mechanical and mental. Most people spend a lot of time on the mechanical aspects of shooting. Those who can master the muscle memory and mechanics are good shooters. To be a great shooter, you often hear about the killer instinct. A belief in one's self that every shot is going to fall. We have a lot of good shooters, but not a single great shooter on this team is to be found.

I have found that there are reset mechanisms that you can implement in your shooting warmups or practices that may help. There should be spots on the court one can go to that will reset your mental game. I always like the free throw extensions. I can hit that shot well above 50% in any manner in a warmup.

Earlier in the year Horvath had a really good looking outside shot. Great rhythm, mechanics and a lot of confidence. His FT misses weren't clunkers, just rim outs or a little short. Now, the ball hits the rim like a five lb cannon ball shot at close range.

Over the years I've heard great shooters such as Reggie Miller, etc., talk about getting out of a shooting slump by getting to the free throw line where they can regain confidence and groove their shot with some uncontested fifteen footers.

Then, we get to the line and...well...

FloridaAggie13 · Post by **FloridaAggie13** » January 19th, 2022, 12:15 pm

The whole team needs to get laid.

NVAggie · Post by **NVAggie** » January 19th, 2022, 12:18 pm

Mr. Sneelock wrote: ↑
January 19th, 2022, 10:19 am

NVAggie wrote: ↑
January 19th, 2022, 9:05 am
Shooting is equal parts mechanical and mental. Most people spend a lot of time on the mechanical aspects of shooting. Those who can master the muscle memory and mechanics are good shooters. To be a great shooter, you often hear about the killer instinct. A belief in one's self that every shot is going to fall. We have a lot of good shooters, but not a single great shooter on this team is to be found.

I have found that there are reset mechanisms that you can implement in your shooting warmups or practices that may help. There should be spots on the court one can go to that will reset your mental game. I always like the free throw extensions. I can hit that shot well above 50% in any manner in a warmup.
Do you have eligibility left? We could probably use a guy like you.

I'm well beyond my useful years, but I can bury that shot off the bounce, off the pass, right or left, fade away, all day.

brownjeans · Post by **brownjeans** » January 19th, 2022, 12:26 pm

It's not the yips - I don't think the Aggies have good three point shooters.

How many players have shot more than 50 threes and hit more than 35% of their threes in their career?

3 - and one of those three is someone we likely think isn't a good shooter. One who we think is a good shooter is below 35%. We have to have more players who can hit a 3.

Coloraggie · Post by **Coloraggie** » January 20th, 2022, 2:03 pm

Yet at the beginning of the year I kept reading we wouldn't go through scoring slumps because our 3pt shooting was so much better this year than last. Those comments did not age well.

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » January 20th, 2022, 2:11 pm

The Yips - they happen

Horvath looks like Joakim Noah lately

Aggie84025 · Post by **Aggie84025** » January 20th, 2022, 2:18 pm

Coloraggie wrote: ↑
January 20th, 2022, 2:03 pm
Yet at the beginning of the year I kept reading we wouldn't go through scoring slumps because our 3pt shooting was so much better this year than last. Those comments did not age well.

I was in that boat, that was one of the things that drove me nut with Smith's team is the long scoring droughts. In conference play our scoring droughts have been just as bad or worse. It is maddening, hopefully they start to revert back to better shooting.

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