Q12543 wrote:AbeVigodaLive wrote:WolvesFan21 wrote:AbeVigodaLive wrote:Q12543 wrote:Yeah, good examples. Ronnie Brewer and Biedrins might be the most extreme in that they had really good years at age 21/22 and then just started to fall off a cliff. I mean, REALLY early success and then out of the league within a few years after that. Crazy. Hibbert's a good one.
Yeah... the league literally passed right on by Hibbert before he could react.
Biedrins got paid... then basically gave up? It's not always the first season of a big contract... often it's the second season. Biedrins shot 16% from the line that season. Never got above 32% again in his career.
Woe.
16 percent. lol My grandma could shoot better.
You can see how it affected his game.
He averaged 4.2 free throws (per 36) in his best season... then down to 1.2 (per 36) in the season when he shot 16%... and from there he was cooked.
He averaged less than 1 free throw per 36 minutes the rest of his career. In 2012... he made ONE free throw in 739 minutes of action.
Yeah, that's nuts. I always associate him and Ronnie Brewer together because he too just lost it from the free throw line, albeit not quite that disastrously. Noah is another guy that for literally years was a 70%+ free throw shooter, then suddenly descended into sub .500-ish territory. Just weird. It's like a golfer getting the yips with his short putts.
Interestingly, both Brewer and Noah had "unique" shooting forms. Brewer's got to be pretty terrible by the end...
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