The second thing you need to have for a perfect free throw are physical mechanics. Physical mechanics involved your body balance and your body position, as well as the mechanics you use with your arms and legs to complete the repetition of the free throw. A common acronym for free throw shooting is called Beef. Beef means you have good body balance, your feet, our shoulders with the part, we prefer that you line up your right foot if you are right handed, on the middle nail hole, most courts have those.
The E, stands for elbow and, meaning, elbows should be inside of the knee. This will help you as you complete your free throw, to finish your shot in a straight line.
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The second E stands for Eyes on the target. The target that you want to aim for is the middle hook on the back of the rim. Why do we want to aim at the middle hook? When a player puts backspin on the ball, which is why you are taught to do if you are a good shooter, and the ball makes contact with the rim, it will hit the back of the rim and it will spin backwards with a backspin into the cylinder. The opposite of this is when you aim at the front of the rim. When the ball makes contact with the front of the rim, the ball will impact to the rim and with backspin, spin backwards away from the cylinder allowing you not to complete your free throw.
The final part of your free throw, with physical mechanics is the Follow Through. You must have and maintain good follow through in order to be a successful free throw shooter.
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