Pregame: Illinois vs Monmouth, Monday, November 14th, 8:00pm CT, BTN

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This is the game RJ gets his mojo back. Goes for 19/6
 
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Overall, Illinois is a decent free throw shooting team. Shannon, Melendez, Clark, Epps, Hawkins, Mayer are good at the line.

Unfortunately, Dainja is not and he will shoot a good number. Not sure he can improve much. Rodgers and Harris are not good but I think they will get better. Dain has way too many moving parts in his motion.
Dain's got a pretty good-sized hitch to the left directly before his forward path to release. Coaches have to see that? Release and trajectory pretty smooth otherwise.

HS coaches I'm familiar with these days prefer reps on whatever technique a player has rather than "fixing" a FT shot. But this fix would seem to be worthwhile to try since it so obvious and yes, he will be there a lot for us.
 
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MDchicago

Lake Norman NC
In the MAAC championship game last March, Monmouth played St Peters as close as Kentucky did in the NCAA tournament. Just sayin, new team, still taking the Illini -32.5.
 
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All I have to say is:

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Have a great weekend :illinois:
Dain with the junk dunk!
 
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Dain's got a pretty good-sized hitch to the left directly before his forward path to release. Coaches have to see that? Release and trajectory pretty smooth otherwise.

HS coaches I'm familiar with these days prefer reps on whatever technique a player has rather than "fixing" a FT shot. But this fix would seem to be worthwhile to try since it so obvious and yes, he will be there a lot for us.
Developed it a Baylor after a shoulder injury.
 
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Dain's got a pretty good-sized hitch to the left directly before his forward path to release. Coaches have to see that? Release and trajectory pretty smooth otherwise.

HS coaches I'm familiar with these days prefer reps on whatever technique a player has rather than "fixing" a FT shot. But this fix would seem to be worthwhile to try since it so obvious and yes, he will be there a lot for us.
Well I feel good shooters try to get their feet, hips, and shoulders relatively square to the basket whenever possible. They especailly do this at the FT line. Dains are far from square. I do not for one buy into this notion to let them shoot it however they want when it comes to basic fundamentals that work best. Even more so when what the player in question is doing it is shooting very sub par at the FT line.
 
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Would love to see RJ and/or Mayer get some momentum going into Vegas.
I would like to see that as well. The main thing I want to see again is good guard play from Epps and Skyy. The more experience and the better quality of play ASAP could have our squad playing at a very high level sooner rather than later.
 
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blackdog

Champaign
Well I feel good shooters try to get their feet, hips, and shoulders relatively square to the basket whenever possible. They especailly do this at the FT line. Dains are far from square. I do not for one buy into this notion to let them shoot it however they want when it comes to basic fundamentals that work best. Even more so when what the player in question is doing it is shooting very sub par at the FT line.

Shooting form has actually changed from the old school square to the basket method which is actually really awkward and causes the ball to be shot either from a weird spot next to your head if you keep your arm at "perfect" 90 degree angles or the arm is tilted to the side if you shoot from in line with your head (generally where you want the ball). Modern shooting form is to actually turn the feet, hips, and shoulders at an angle so that when you bring your arm straight up its in line from head to basket. Steph Curry is the poster child for this form of shooting but all good shooters do it the same way now. Its just way more fluid and fits with natural body mechanics.
 
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Any guesses on what we will be ranked when we take the floor tonight? The following teams in front of us had relevant results to this discussion:

UC Irvine 69, #21 Oregon 56 ... HAVE to figure we'll pass them.
Temple 68, #16 Villanova 64 ... will they drop enough for us to move up a spot??
Colorado 78, #11 Tennessee 66 ... doubt we would pass them, but that is a BAD loss. CU had just lost to a terrible team, and the game was in Nashville.
 
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Shooting form has actually changed from the old school square to the basket method which is actually really awkward and causes the ball to be shot either from a weird spot next to your head if you keep your arm at "perfect" 90 degree angles or the arm is tilted to the side if you shoot from in line with your head (generally where you want the ball). Modern shooting form is to actually turn the feet, hips, and shoulders at an angle so that when you bring your arm straight up its in line from head to basket. Steph Curry is the poster child for this form of shooting but all good shooters do it the same way now. Its just way more fluid and fits with natural body mechanics.
That's why I said relatively square. Dain sets up with his hips, shoulders, and feet at about a 45 degree angle and toes and other angles towards the corner. It is nothing like Curry's or other good shooters like Kerr that possess the form I am referring to. He has one foot slightly back but lines are square. His feet, hips, and shoulders relatively square the the FT line and his arm with the rim to the center of the rim. I just watched a video of Curry and Steve Kerr to verify my thoughts. Dain sets up nothing like they do with thier feet, hips, shoulders, and arms.
 
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RJ seems at points as if his head is not in the game, very emotionless
Not seeing this. RJ seems calm by nature. He is playing hard but not getting the results he wants (yet)

Mayer on the other hand. Something is off with him. It may be his back injury, but he doesn't seem to be going all out when he is playing. Was it ever addressed why he barely played the second half of game two? ILL!!
 
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