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  • Eric 'Broadway' Jones: All right, Swoop.

  • Dwayne 'Swoop' Simpson: Yeah?

  • Eric: We're back.

  • Dwayne: We're here.

  • Eric: We're showing these people how to shoot a free throw. You wanna be free.

  • Dwayne: Yeah.

  • Eric: Free...

  • Dwayne: Fallin'.

  • Eric: There you go. That's how you wanna do it. Free throws ...

  • Dwayne: Free, oh.

  • Eric: ... free throws is all about repetition...

  • Dwayne: Yes.

  • Eric: ... and technique.

  • Dwayne: Yes.

  • Eric: Two things you wanna remember with free throws, repetition, technique. Say it with

  • me.

  • Dwayne: Repetition and technique, okay.

  • Eric: Repetition, technique. You got it, you got it.

  • Dwayne: All right.

  • Eric: So you repeat the action over and over ...

  • Dwayne: Uh-huh.

  • Eric: ... and practice the same technique.

  • Dwayne: Now, around what percentage should I be trying. I'm a 10 percent free throw shooter.

  • All right? So that's, that's, is that pretty good for me?

  • Eric: No, no, no. You're free throw shooting, because there's nobody guarding you on the

  • free throw line ...

  • Dwayne: Really?

  • Eric: ... or the foul line. You wanna be somewhere between 85 and 90 percent.

  • Dwayne: So that means I gotta make a lot of shots?

  • Eric: Absolutely.

  • Dwayne: Oh. Well, maybe that's not my ...

  • Eric: Can you handle that?

  • Dwayne: I'll work on it. I gotta practice.

  • Eric: Yeah, well we'll leave it to the expert.

  • Dwayne: Yeah, yeah.

  • Eric: That's why we have DP here to show us the proper way how to shoot a free throw.

  • Now we're here with DP the expert.

  • Dwayne: OK.

  • Eric: Now he has a motion where he takes three dribbles, gets a good knee bend, but don't

  • do the other thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He gets a good knee bend, and gets a good follow through.

  • We're gonna watch DB on his foul shooting technique. That's how you make a free throw

  • right there.

  • Dwayne: Good!

  • Eric: Now notice the same motion. Three dribbles, then extend on the follow through. That's

  • a good free throw.

  • Dwayne: Yeah, that's good. That's nice. That's nice.

  • Eric: You like that?

  • Dwayne: I like it. I'm looking.

  • Eric: This is how you become a better free throw shooter, Swoop.

  • Dwayne: OK.

  • Eric: This is what I'm trying to tell you about.

  • Dwayne: So you telling me that if I just calm myself down ...

  • Eric: Yeah.

  • Dwayne: ... have proper technique.

  • Eric: Technique.

  • Dwayne: And what was the other word you said?

  • Eric: I don't remember.

  • Dwayne: Me neither. [laughs]

  • Eric: It doesn't matter.

  • Dwayne: First, I'm gonna go here, get my ...

  • Eric: Proper technique.

  • Dwayne: I have get a routine like his though. Right?

  • Eric: Yeah, you get a routine ...

  • Dwayne: OK.

  • Eric: ... technique. Yeah, yeah.

  • Dwayne: I'm a on that.

  • Eric: You only got 10 seconds. You only got 10 seconds.

  • Dwayne: And then I just ....

  • ERIC: D**n.

  • Dwayne: Nice.

  • Eric: Now you got it. Let me see that routine again.

  • Dwayne: OK. OK. OK.

  • Eric: Spin it out. You gotta make that sound, too?

  • Dwayne: Yeah.

  • Eric: Then, follow through. So that's why you're set for set. All right. Now, as you

  • can see the right and the wrong way to shoot a free throw. If you have the proper technique,

  • and then you use repetition, good follow through, good form, you can become a better free throw

  • shooter.

Eric 'Broadway' Jones: All right, Swoop.

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