Mikal Bridges and NBA's shooting coach Mystery

[iamgine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_SSHAnpvvk

This is a huge mystery to me. So a team spent five first round pick for this guy, and then their shooting coach change his already pretty good shooting form into this monstrosity. None of the coach is fired, and none of the other guys in this team shoot like this. How is this even possible?

[Real Men Wear Green]

It may have horrible results and have been a terrible idea but they have to have been convinced they can make him a better shooter. So they had to teach him a new form, meaning he is telling his body to shoot one way while muscle memory influences his body to do something else. He should be able to get the form down and be alright but you don't normally see a guy that is a respectable shooter so this. Because sometimes you get a horror story like what happened to Markelle Fultz (his changes were injury related though).

[Kblaze8855]

There are few people I would say need a completely new form after the form they have was good enough to make the NBA. And none of them are career 38% three-point shooters. I’d love to hear the pitch they made to get him to change it.

Even nba players who can’t shoot…can kinda shoot. It’s mental with the ones who miss in games. You can work out kinks that contribute to inconsistency but to rebuild it from the ground up?

MKG needed a rebuild. I’m not sure anyone I’ve seen since needed the total tear down.

[highwhey]

https://media.tenor.com/_7i41E6p0rgAAAAe/look-how-they-massacred-my-boy-meme.png

[tontoz]

For his career he shoots 84.5% from the foul line. I don't get it.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Why are people upset? It hurts the Knicks and it's not like he's really injured. Win-win.

[Meticode]

Why are people upset? It hurts the Knicks and it's not like he's really injured. Win-win.

I'm not upset personally. Just dumbfounded they felt they needed to change a player's form which has netted him 47% FG% and 38% 3P% the last few seasons scoring over 20 a game. That's been his form for probably over a decade.

[BarberSchool]

This can’t be real.
The new shot is a relatively flat “fling” which will have ok lateral accuracy but absolutely terrible depth consistency, and zero chance of getting shooters rolls if short.

[Im Still Ballin]

Mikal has really long arms. Maybe the goal was to increase the height of the release?

[Meticode]

This can’t be real.
The new shot is a relatively flat “fling” which will have ok lateral accuracy but absolutely terrible depth consistency, and zero chance of getting shooters rolls if short.

Unfortunately it is. When I watched the Knicks @ Celtics game the broadcasters specifically mentioned this and how he looked like he was struggling with the change. I'm not sure why you'd choose to try to make this change this far into your career when you just recently were averaging like 23 on solid shooting numbers. It's not like he's been bad in his career. If anything he's been above average at least.

[Im Still Ballin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71b0rItuKs&ab_channel=BBALLBREAKDOWN

[Real Men Wear Green]

Did BILT pay Tatum any money for appearing in that ad?

[Axe]

Is it why they lost earlier?

[90sgoat]

One of the worst thing with current sports is the way sports theory has taken over.

There's this idea that there's an optimal way to do everything and even if something already works for you, then you need to change it because it isn't optimal.

Not only is this a huge risk, it also removes a lot of the personality, which is why most NBA players look like clones.

Imagine if someone like Peja Stojakovich played today and someone would try to fix his lean or even Reggie Miller and his unorthodox style.

I really hope we'll soon get over all these coaches and theory people.

[bison]

One of the worst thing with current sports is the way sports theory has taken over.

There's this idea that there's an optimal way to do everything and even if something already works for you, then you need to change it because it isn't optimal.

Not only is this a huge risk, it also removes a lot of the personality, which is why most NBA players look like clones.

Imagine if someone like Peja Stojakovich played today and someone would try to fix his lean or even Reggie Miller and his unorthodox style.

I really hope we'll soon get over all these coaches and theory people.

Came here to post this or something similar to this. Basketball is getting too much into solving equations that don’t need solving. It’s like modern coaching staffs are trying to find the future style of basketball

[ShawkFactory]

One of the worst thing with current sports is the way sports theory has taken over.

There's this idea that there's an optimal way to do everything and even if something already works for you, then you need to change it because it isn't optimal.

Not only is this a huge risk, it also removes a lot of the personality, which is why most NBA players look like clones.

Imagine if someone like Peja Stojakovich played today and someone would try to fix his lean or even Reggie Miller and his unorthodox style.

I really hope we'll soon get over all these coaches and theory people.

Agreed. It makes more sense in baseball where mechanics are really king both from an effectiveness and safety standpoint, but not basketball.

[Locked_Up_Tonight]

Well, small sample size but it seems to be working for him.

[iamgine]

So far it seems his 3pt is worse but his mid-range has improved.