Gregg Popovich has all the time been recognized for his hardnosed model of teaching, however there may be additionally his humorous facet, and typically each can come out on the identical time. On the identical time, if Tim Duncan had one weak point to his recreation, it was that he was by no means an amazing free-throw shooter. His profession common was just below 70 p.c, and his numbers may ebb wildly from season-to-season, together with his profession excessive being 81.7 p.c in 2012-13, and his low was 59% in 2003-04. (I recall appropriately, he turned a goal for Hack-a-Tim that season.)
Now mix these two points of Timmy and Pop collectively, and you’ve got a recreation from the 2009-10 season (when he shot 72.5 p.c from the road), and it should not have been going nice, as a result of Pop will be heard telling his workforce throughout a timeout that the following one who misses a free throw will purchase him a brand new automobile.
Whereas the video doesn’t present a response, Tim reportedly replied, “What colour would you prefer it in?” The workforce’s greatest star having the ability to take up and play together with Pop’s anger was all the time a giant constructive for the workforce, because it confirmed different gamers that he will be coached and yelled at, so may they. The excellent news is it appears to be like like Victor Wembanyama would be the identical means, as he’s simply as open to being coached and yelled at as his predecessor was — though one benefit he has is it seems he will probably be a significantly better free throw shooter than Tim ever was, so he might not have to purchase Pop a automobile any time quickly.
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