Omer Asik can't shoot Free Throws

I'd love to see a video of him trying to shoot FTs. Its got to be bad.

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Can he hit the rim????

by hlac on Sep 14, 2009 9:32 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

ooohhh fuck!

You know what? People are going to keep talking about this guy and he’ll be worst than Aaron Gray you watch. I hate Euros.

I have seen a QB and it was good.

by SoulEater7 on Sep 14, 2009 11:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

don't post durnk.

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by your friendly BullsBlogger on Sep 15, 2009 12:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

or drunk.

I’ll leave that one in there for comedy.

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by your friendly BullsBlogger on Sep 15, 2009 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He’s going to be better than Gray…simply due to not being a slow ass whale.

I’m not worried about FT’s, most centers can’t shoot them. And FT shooting is not hard to fix. Look at Noah, he’s around 70% now.

by C Smoove on Sep 15, 2009 10:55 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

No excuses.

<http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/sikmaja01.html>

I’m not worried about FT’s, most centers can’t shoot them.

"Whoever was responsible for pulling that offer [to Ben Gordon] off the table...bring him before me and I'll punch him right in the face " - Frederick Pfeiffer

by Granny Waiters on Sep 15, 2009 6:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess guards

don’t have an excuse for not shooting over 50% from 3pt range. After all, there’s someone who did that before to.

Thanks for the link, though, Sikma’s FT shooting was amazing.

by runningman on Sep 16, 2009 11:02 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, there was probably nothing to do in Kankakee

(Sikma’s home town) but practice shooting.

The point is tall people can shoot free throws well.

"Whoever was responsible for pulling that offer [to Ben Gordon] off the table...bring him before me and I'll punch him right in the face " - Frederick Pfeiffer

by Granny Waiters on Sep 16, 2009 5:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wish they kept Kerr around

instead of letting him go the Spurs.

"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan

by bennythebull on Sep 16, 2009 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ok wow you use ONE players’ stats. What does that prove? Nothing except that Sikma was a great FT shooting center.

Of course centers if they work hard can learn to shoot well from FT line but to be honest 80% of em suck shootin em so it’s not a huge deal.

by C Smoove on Sep 16, 2009 11:47 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Asik’s poor FT% can be turned into an advantage. Since he has an ungodly high FG% and correspondingly low FT%, teams will defend him with hack-a-Shaq as soon as he touches the ball. So you put him out there to start each quarter and yank his butt as soon as they get into the bonus. That will get them into the bonus faster, leading to more FTA for our better FT% shooters.

by ImLittleJon on Sep 16, 2009 5:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Hack-an-Asik

That’s what European journalists are starting to call it.

Don’t know when the Bulls plan to bring him over, but your Turkish center draft pick from 2008 better learns to shoot free throws before coming to the NBA. He is really abysmal in the ongoing EuroBasket tournament from the line. He is 1 for 11 and 2 for 6 in the last two games, and they lost the last one by 2 to Slovenia (the Raptors’ Turkoglu is also having a rough tournament which doesn’t help matters). Asik is 7 for 30 overall, 23%. Shaq would be embarrassed. So would be Big Ben Wallace.

In his last healthy season he shot at least 52% for his club. Apparently he didn’t practice it a lot while rehabbing his knee injury.

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by Norsktroll on Sep 17, 2009 5:16 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs