Chamberlain had every incentive in the world to keep shooting freethros underhanded, and he didn't. Barry tried to reason with him onceoh, you actually talked aso, i try to get shack to change shakeel o'neiil o'nel. He said, forget. I'd rather shoot zero than shoot underhanded. The difference is, if shack was an 80 % free throw shooter, he becomes the go to guy on the court. You change the dynamic of the game. No one shoots underhanded. Not even barry's team mates followed his lead. People who saw him shoot that every day and never miss one. Guy onanly. George
Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst foul shooters in basketball—even though he had tried a better alternative. Why do smart people do dumb things?
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