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[QUOTE="jekelish, post: 1213174, member: 82"]
Yeah, I was never a particularly great shooter or anything (except for free throws) but when things are going wrong, and it feels like your mechanics are off or you're tight, you can get into your own head easily and it's hard to get back out, so you start thinking about the process ("Elbow in...extend...follow through..." while you're shooting) and shooting means turning your brain off and letting muscle memory do its thing, not thinking about it while you're letting fly. I remember my senior year, while I've been an 80-85% free throw shooter my whole life, for a stretch of about two weeks of practice I couldn't make a free throw to save my life because I was thinking about it, and couldn't stop thinking about it, and screwed myself up by overthinking it.

Again, I was hundreds of miles away from Cooney in terms of shooting skills, but it can happen to anyone. It's like getting a case of the shanks (see the movie: Cup, Tin). Once you start thinking about what you're doing wrong, that's ALL you're thinking about.
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