Here’s the Norman Transcript with the latest on a key member of the OKC Thunder:
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Now, Roberson has turned his mind and his body into his top two offseason priorities.
He can maintain more consistent shooting form if he is less tired at the end of games. And maybe more importantly, the rest of his game can remain unaffected when he’s missing free throws once the mind gets right.
“This don’t have nothing to do with nobody else but myself,” he said. “I’m the only one out there shooting those free throws. I got to go out there, put myself in fatigue situations or do a couple sets of pushups before a go [practice] a free throw…And then try to knock it down.”
Still, it’s not like 42 percent free-throw shooting during last year’s regular season was an anomaly. Roberson made only 24 percent of his 3-pointers last year, the third-worst percentage of anyone who’s taken as many attempts in a single season.
