Originally Posted by
UrinalCake
People often talk about going to the gym and shooting 1000 free throws in a row as a way to improve their percentages, but in a game you don't get to shoot a bunch of them at one time. You only get to shoot two (or sometimes one, or occasionally three). Then you have to stop and do other things, then a while later you can shoot two more. So shooting a whole bunch in a row doesn't really help because once you get into a rhythm, you're just repeating the motion, but in a game situation you never have a chance to get into that rhythm.
One of the interesting things I've noticed about Nelson is that it seems like he often makes the first free throw, then misses the second. This is really unusual; normally a player will miss the first, then make an adjustment and make the second. Which makes me think his problems are more psychological than mechanical.