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SPRINGFIELD, N. Cheap Bills Jerseys China .J. -- The years final major is upon us this week outside New York City, and it starts just 11 days after The Open at Royal Troon finished. How are the top pros going to handle the rare turnaround in major championship conditions and pressure?And what can we expect from Phil Mickelson, who finished oh-so-close to capturing another Claret Jug in Scotland? Our experts tackle these topics and more in this weeks edition of Monday Four-Ball.1. World No. 1 Jason Day and No. 2 Dustin Johnson were the only players in the top 15 in the Official World Golf Rankings to play the RBC Canadian Open. Will that help or hurt them this week at the PGA Championship?SportsCenter anchor Jonathan Coachman: I think fatigue will absolutely play a factor for those that played the Open Championship, then in Canada, and then at Baltrusol. But heres the thing: Playing in the heat of summer when you start to play well can be an advantage. The only two players that should have had confidence coming out of Royal Troon were runner-up Phil Mickelson and winner Henrik Stenson. So the long answer is yes, I think playing in Canada will help those that did.ESPN.com senior golf analyst Michael Collins: It will hurt them. I completely understand the tie to the sponsor, but if Im RBC, Id much rather have them winning majors this season than playing in Canada. Two majors in three weeks is tough on its own. Maintaining high-level play for three weeks straight is an impossible ask which is why the 13 other top guys didnt do it.ESPN.com senior golf writer Bob Harig: Playing well wont hurt them, but maybe playing at all will. Having two major championships in three weeks is tough enough, but add another tournament in between -- along with the travel from Europe -- and getting worn down is certainly in play, especially with a hot weather week ahead in New Jersey.ESPN.com senior golf editor Kevin Maguire: It probably wont do either, but it could hurt both of them down the road. Granted, neither of them will be playing in the Olympics despite qualifying, but theyve got a long stretch of golf with the FedEx Cup playoffs right around the corner to wrap up the 2015-16 season.ESPN.com senior golf writer Jason Sobel: Can I pick none of the above? Heres what will happen this week: If JD and DJ each contend for the title, well explain theyre sharp because they played a tourney the week before; if they each play poorly at the PGA, well explain theyre worn out from playing the week before. The truth is, theyre golfers. And golfers play golf. Playing last week shouldnt really have much of an effect on how they play this week.2. More likely for Phil Mickelson: Inside or outside the top 10 at Baltusrol?Coachman: I am going inside the top 10. He has had a sneaky good year. He was big time at Troon and will be big time at Baltusrol.Collins: Outside. As great as it would be to see him play well here again, when Mickelson finishes second in a major, his next start usually stinks. Heres the past five starts after major second-place finishes; MC, 78, MC, MC, T58. You still have that confident feeling you had when you first read the question? Sorry for the honest reality slap.Harig: Outside. As well as he played at Royal Troon, and as good as it is for him to be able to keep the momentum going, there are no guarantees. Mickelson had missed the cut at the Masters, Players and U.S. Open.Maguire: Wish I could say inside, but outside is more likely. Most will point to his win here at Baltusrol at the 2005 PGA as a reason for hope, but after expending all that energy and still coming up short at Royal Troon, I cant imagine a 46-year-old Mickelson keeping the gas on the pedal for a second time in three weeks.Sobel: I really like Mickelsons chances this week, so Ill say inside the top 10. I spoke with Phil for a while after the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, two weeks before he finished runner-up at Troon. One thing he said struck me as noteworthy: While most elite golfers are squeezing a lot of golf into a tight window this summer, hell have a three-week break starting next week. At the time, I thought that could mean hed make a run at the FedEx Cup. Now I think hell make another run at a major.3. Andrew Beef Johnston just signed an endorsement deal with Arbys. Whats your favorite player/sponsor combo?Coachman: To me, a perfect combo would be Dunkin Donuts and Jason Day. How many start your day with ... sentences are there? So many. And with his family, they could factor them in as well.Collins: Coming off the win at The Open, Henrik Stenson -- aka The Iceman -- should have a golf bag sponsored by Polar Temp. You know all the big freezers you grab bags of ice from at gas stations and convenience stores? Theyre made by Polar Temp. Then his golf bag (white) would just say ICE (blue letters) and his head covers could have icicles hanging from them!Harig: Boo Weekleys deal with Firethorn is perfect. Camouflage shirts and hats seems totally appropriate.Maguire: To stay with the Beefs fast-food theme, how about Graeme McDowell and McDonalds? Theres got to be someone who can work in this McDowells/McDonalds clip from the movie Coming To America right?Sobel: Duh. Its Miguel Angel Jimenez, who played The Most Interesting Man in the World in those Dos Equis commercials.4. Thumbs up or thumbs down to the European Tour floating the idea of six-hole tournaments.Coachman: Thumbs down. There is nothing wrong with the way things are done. I am all for new ideas and trying to make things fresh, but I would focus on promoting the players instead of getting gimmicky.Collins: Thumbs way up! Thered be all kinds of infrastructure changes that would have to be made, but the thought of 100 guys playing six holes, best score wins? Talk about pressure and drama. European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley is going to get blasted by the old (stuffy) guard, but I love him not being afraid to blow it up and try something different.Harig: Its a nice idea, but ideas on the pro tours are better if they are truly during the course of a real tournament. Why not play 12-hole rounds over 4 days and have the event count?Maguire: Thumbs up. Golf needs this kind of shake up in a big way. Will it solve all that ails the sport? Of course not, nor does anyone expect that. But what casual observers and weekend hackers like me know for certain is that whatever the pros do, the general golfing public tends to go in that direction as well. One can only hope the PGA Tour brass is trying to come up with similar ideas to keep the game relevant to younger generations.Sobel: No. No, no, no, no, no. Just -- no. I dont even understand this. Golf isnt so broken that it needs this much fixing. Im all for alternative ideas to make events more fun and fan-friendly. But a six-hole tourney sounds like a terrible idea. Im out. Cheap OJ Simpson Jersey .C. - The Carolina Hurricanes have placed backup goalie Anton Khudobin on injured reserve with an unspecified lower-body injury. Cheap Bills Jerseys . Woodson said during a radio interview Thursday that the Knicks Carmelo Anthony doesnt get the same calls as other superstars. http://www.cheapbillsjerseysauthentic.com/ . 9. Price, heading to the 2014 Olympics for Canada, was named the First Star after posting wins in three starts with a 1.00 goals-against average and a .971 save percentage. KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Yadier Molina looked perfectly comfortable in the No. 2 spot in the lineup. Batting second for only the third time in his career, Molina homered and drove in four runs to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the slumping Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Monday. Molina hit a two-run homer in the first inning and doubled home a run in the third before his sacrifice fly in the fourth scored Pete Kozma. "Yadier is pretty flexible," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "We like him wherever he hits. Today he did a nice job hitting in the second position." Molina had batted fifth 40 times and sixth seven times this year. "It doesnt matter for me," he said. "Ive got the same approach: Im going to be aggressive." While the Cardinals own the best road record in the majors at 19-9, the Royals dropped their ninth straight home game -- one shy of the franchise record set last year. "Were playing good," Molina said. "Weve got some good offence. Right now, were seeing the ball pretty good. Were finding some holes. Were showing the people weve got a pretty good team. Hopefully we can continue to do that for the rest of the season." The anticipated pitchers duel between Adam Wainwright and James Shields failed to materialize. Wainwright (7-3) struck out five and walked none in eight innings for the win. He allowed 12 hits, his most since Sept. 14, 2010, against the Chicago Cubs. The right-hander gave up 12 hits over 22 1-3 innings in his previous three starts. "Early on, they got some hits off some bad pitches and I felt like as the game went on they put some really good at-bats against me and hit some good pitches as well," Wainwright said. "I broke several of their bats and they found holes. The got some good hits as well on good pitches. I think as a pitcher no matter what happens on the other side you just have to keep battling and keep making pitches and eventually if you keep making pitches things will work out." Edward Mujica gave up a hit in the ninth but earned his 15th save in as many opportunities. Shields (2-6) yielded nine hits and season highs of six runs and five walks over six innings while losing his fourth straight start. "t;I wasnt commanding my fastball and I was getting behind in the count and then I started walking guys," Shields said. Wholesale Authentic Bills Jerseys. "Weve just got to gut it out. Weve got great effort in here." After rain delayed the start for 62 minutes, the Cardinals opened the game with Matt Carpenters single and Molinas third home run. It was the first time Molina had faced Shields. "Shields is a good pitcher," Molina said. "My brother (caught) him in Tampa. I watched him a bunch of times on TV. Ive got a pretty good idea what he brings to the table. He made a couple of mistakes in the middle and I took advantage." Royals rookie David Lough, who had a career-high four hits, led off the first with a double and scored on Alex Gordons single. Molinas double in the third scored Daniel Descalso. Molina scored on Allen Craigs single. The Royals answered with two runs in the bottom half. Gordon scored on a wild pitch and Eric Hosmer contributed an RBI single. The Cardinals expanded their lead in the sixth when Carpenters double scored Descalso, who had three hits and a walk. "We showed some life," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "We had Wainwright on the ropes, but we couldnt get the big hit." NOTES: Cardinals RHP Jake Westbrook threw all his pitches in a bullpen session and experienced no pain in the tender elbow that put him on the disabled list May 9. After that, Westbrook cancelled an afternoon flight to see Dr. James Andrews for a second opinion on his elbow. ... The Cardinals optioned RHP Carlos Martinez to Triple-A Memphis, where he will start after seven relief appearances in the majors. The 21-year-old Martinez has primarily been a starter in the minors. ... The Cardinals scratched pitching prospect Michael Wacha from a Sunday start with Memphis. He could start Thursday at St. Louis against the Royals. "Were still checking our options," Matheny said. ... 3B Mike Moustakas was held out of the Royals lineup with a bruised quadriceps, but was available if needed. ... The Cardinals recalled RHP Victor Marte from Memphis, where he had 10 saves. ... LF Matt Holliday, in an 0-for-14 skid, was not in the Cardinals lineup. 20:50ET 27-05-13 Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' ' 

Steph was back. Cheap Luke Kuechly Jersey .Six minutes and 2 seconds into Game 4 of the Golden State Warriors second-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers, Stephen Curry sauntered off the bench for his first live action in two weeks and into the epicenter of the most exciting game of the year. It was as if the lights had come back on after a power outage. The Warriors trailed 16-2, lost in an effervescent maelstrom of brilliant, whirling basketball by the Blazers. Yet here came the MVP, restoring electricity.Curry took over in the middle of the second quarter, teaming with Klay Thompson to steal the ball, blitzing down the court and making a 10-foot leaner over an airborn 7-foot Mason Plumlee to bring Golden State within nine.The earthquake of Currys knee injury -- and its anxious aftershocks felt around the league -- was history. Everything that rested on his shoulders -- the Warriors march to the NBA Finals, TV ratings, the ongoing long-ball revolution -- was saved. Steph was ready to explode.Until ... Just before Curry had a chance to do something amazing, Trail Blazers forward Al-Farouq Aminu put his arms around 7-foot center Andrew Bogut: an intentional foul of the worst free throw shooter on the team -- the turd in the punch bowl of Currys comeback.As social media groaned, Bogut, a career 55.8 percent free throw shooter, bricked his first attempt and made the second. A minute later, the Blazers fouled him again. And then a third time.Steve Kerr -- the freshly minted coach of the year -- soon retaliated, ordering his team to hack 6-foot-9 Moe Harkless, a career 58.9 percent free throw shooter.Stupidest rule in the league, Kerr was overheard grumbling, according to CSNNW reporter Jason Quick. People pay $8,000 to sit courtside to watch this.Fans pay to watch the best in the world, Kerr was saying, and instead they were watching a play designed, by the opposing coach, to be terrible. Tall men fumbling at the free throw line has become one of the NBAs signature shortcomings -- and its creeping toward an epidemic. Not because players are worse at free throws than they used to be, but because coaches are more sophisticated and strategic and, some would argue, less gentlemanly. This season, NBA fans were subjected to about 450 intentional free throws shot by some of the leagues worst free throw shooters.Last Tuesday, commissioner Adam Silver announced that the NBAs board of governors approved rule changes to dissuade Hack-a-Shaq tactics by extending the last-two-minute rule from the end of the game to the end of each quarter, trimming the time teams can exploit hack-a-targets. Players like Bogut, in turn, will get eight minutes per game of protection from this tactic, instead of two. Silver said he hoped to see the board of governors expand the rule to the entire game.In the meantime, keeping the game electric is mostly a case of hoping big men get better at shooting free throws, which seems unlikely. Among the most stable statistics in the sport is the reality that men 6-foot-9 or taller, as a group, make only about 72 percent of their free throws. Within that group of giants lies a trend: 75 percent of the worst free throw shooters in NBA history are 6-foot-9 or taller. But the worst of them have long been among the leagues best players -- All-Stars and all-timers -- who have shot below 60 percent. In the 1950s and 60s, Bill Russell, 6-foot-10, shot 56.1 percent from the free throw line. Wilt Chamberlain, 7-foot-1, made 51.5 percent. Shaquille ONeal, Dennis Rodman, Tim Duncan, Alonzo Mourning, Ben Wallace, Horace Grant, Vin Baker, Dwight Howard and Blake Griffin -- all were named All-Stars during seasons in which they shot worse than 60 percent from the line.These players are the ready victims of competitive opposing coaches. Kevin Durant, who is listed at 6-foot-9 and is a career 88 percent free throw shooter, spoke for many when he told ESPNs Royce Young back in December, If you dont want to get hacked, then work on your f---ing free throws.Asked on The Dan Patrick Show in early May of last year if the league should change the rule, TNT broadcaster Reggie Miller, one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, said: ?Make your free throws. Its disrespectful to yourself and myself who spent countless hours in the gym working on our shooting. ... We worked on our craft.Practice more! It makes so much sense. Yet according to those who have gone to the trouble of diagnosing the actual root of the problem, its the exact opposite of good advice.A favorite theory of hoops aficionados is that a basketball is relatively small -- and thus difficult to control -- in enormous hands. Imagine trying to shoot a tennis ball.A compelling argument -- until you put it to the test. San Antonios Kawhi Leonard -- whose mitts are almost as massive as Shaquille ONeals -- drained 87.4 percent of his free throws this past season. Arvydas Sabonis was once thought to have some of the NBAs biggest hands, and he shot 80 percent from the line.Though a dearth of historical NBA data on hand size makes rigorous, decades-long study impossible, an analysis -- based on hand-length data extracted from NBA draft combine measurements -- of 118 NBA players who have taken at least 100 career free throws confirmed that hand size is not a statistically significant predictor of free throw success.Andrew Nicholson has the biggest hands in the database, but the Orlando big man has shot 78 percent from the line in his career. Milwaukees Michael Carter-Williams, on the other hand, has the smallest hands relative to his height, and he shoots just 69.2 percent from the line.Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino is a staunch believer of the Large Mitts theory, which is why last summer he logged onto YouTube and studied Rick Barrys granny shot instructional videos. In the practice gym, Pitino taught himself how to make 8 of 10 consistently underhanded before he could properly teach his then-starting center Chinanu Onuaku how to do it.After Pitino and his staff trained Onuaku, the big man saw his free throw percentage improve from 46.7 percent in his freshmen year to 58.9 percent last season. Onuaku loved it.I dont really care what people think, Onuaku said over the phone. As long as the ball goes in the basket, thats all I care about. In June, the Houston Rockets rewarded Onuaku by selecting him with the 37th pick in the 2016 draft, making him likely the first NBA player in decades to shoot free throws underhanded.If I was an NBA executive again, I would immediately hire Rick Barry to tutor Andre Drummond, Dwight Howard and whomever it would be, Pitino said. But of course, Ive gotten pretty good at it myself.However, research guru Michael Beuoy, of Inpredictable.com, found some other possible explanations for poor free throw shooting aside from hand size. A deep dive into SportVU-generated granular data revealed to Beuoy that tall players tend to have higher shot trajectories, which means the ball approaches the rim as if it had been dropped from a greater height -- i.e., faster. Dirk Nowitzkis free throws approach the rim at 20.4 feet per second; Kyrie Irvings approach at 19.4.That doesnt matter if the shot is dead on. But if it catches rim, as many do, Nowitzkis shot would bounce off the rim with more force than Irvings. And in basketball, there are plenty of makes to be had from a softly bouncing ball lucking its way into the net.Beuoy also found that big men were just all over the place with the ball. The starting position, the release point, the velocity and angle of the ball as it left their hands ... the best shooters had very little variation in these things. The tallest players had a lot, and the worst free throw shooters had a ton.In other words, the search for physical differences in tall and short shooters uncovered evidence that the actual difference is not physical at all.Putting in golf is about as similar an act as there could be to free throw shooting. The essential challenge is to stand before a crowd, size up a target and move your body in a carefully rehearsed way. The sin is surprise. The virtue is in mastering a motion you can replicate no matter the circumstances. And practice is famously the bedrock of succeeding at it.But its not the whole story for everyone, every day. Many of the games finest -- from Tom Watson to Sergio Garcia to Johnny Miller to Ben Hogan to even, at the end, the famed Bobby Jones -- have seen things turn horribly, irreparably wrong on the greens, more or less because of something happening between the ears.Ernie Els has won four golf majors, and he said he has hit eight holes-in-one in his career. Hes fifth on the list of career golf earnings. Yet, on the first green of the Masters this year, it took him six agonizing putts to find the bottom of the cup -- after starting, literally, from 6 feet out.In golf, they call it the yips -- when they mention it at all. It has been studied for decades in not just golf, but everything from baseball to darts to concert piano.One such student is Chris Cassidy. The 46-year-old holds degrees from the Naval Academy and MIT. He was a Navy SEAL sniper for 10 years and an astronaut who completed a record spacewalk. He currently heads NASAs astronaut program, in charge of selecting and training the nations space cadets. Cassidy is said to be perhaps the most heavily trained human in the history of the United States government.He is also an NBA fan living in Houston, an epicenter of the hack-a epidemic thanks to the presence of Dwight Howard -- who recently signed with Atlanta -- and his backup, Clint Capela. When news arrived that the Rockets selected Onuaku, the intellectual side of Cassidy brimmed with excitement. But the former astronaut concedes, As a fan, I just want them to win.Cassidys thinking on big men missing free throws has very little to do with big men and a lot to do with how people get competitive jobs: We have 18,000 applicants for 10 people, and there are so many really good candidates out there, Cassidy said of those wishing to become astronauts. For me, it came down to me and another guy. And what decided who made the cut was a really, really small thing, something insignificant.To the best of Cassidys knowledge, the guy he beat out to become an astronaut had a food allergy. Yes, a food allergy.The lesson: Any weakness can doom you in such a competitive field. In this way, a 6-foot NBA player is like an astronaut. To separate himself from millions of similarly sized people whod like to play in the NBA, he must be strong, mentally and physically, in whatever it takes to have a nicely replicable shooting stroke.If youre a bad free throw shooter at 7-foot, though? Well, OK, you still have a darned-good chance of making it to the NBA simply because there arent many 7-footers in the world. David Epsteins 2011 book The Sports Gene estimates, based on government population data, that a staggering 17 percent of all 7-foot American men between the ages of 20 and 40 are playing in the NBA.The 7-footer pool is incredibly small, and theyre not groomed to be good free throw shooters, Cassidy said. But Im sure big guys in the NBA ever since they were in seventh grade, they were off on the side of the gym shooting free throws, and it doesnt necessarily make them better. So theres got to be something else going on.At the end of close games, when home fans scream like crazy to distract the road team from making free throws and are respectfully silent when the home team shoots, its a big advantage for the home team ... right?Not so much. According to a paper presented by researchers Justin Rao and Matt Goldman at the MIT Sloan Conference in 2012, its the home team that sees its free throw percentage plummet.The son of a psychologist, Rao said its the desire to make the shot and delight those fans that forces some shooters to put in extra effort and concentration -- a little like Els at the Masters. And that conscious effort can screw it all up.The Rockets tracked Howards free throws, and he shot upper-70sin the practice gym, according to a team source, but he shot 48.9 percent in games this past season. Thats a 30 percentage point gap.Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy puts Andre Drummonds practice percentage at 65 percent, but Drummond shot 35.5 percent in games this season - another 30 point gap. (It goes without saying that the rest of the league, which shoots 75 percent from the line, could have nowhere near that big of a drop-off.)If these guys do much better in practice than the game, Rao said, it points to psychology.When was the last time you drank from a cup? Dr. Christian Marquardt is on the phone, and he almost makes me spit, because surely he cant know that I have taken a sip of coffee that instant. Hes a leading sports psychologist studying the neurological causes of the yips at the Science and Motion facility in Munich, Germany.I tell him that I literally just took a sip of my coffee.Did you put any attention on it, or any thought? Or did you just drink it?No thought.Now, imagine it was completely filled up with hot liquid. You dont want to spill it. All of a sudden, you will act very differently.Hes right. Thoughts about how tightly Im gripping the handle, the precise twist of my arm, the angle of the cup to my mouth ...Because, he explains, you start thinking about the consequences of failure.This is how Marquardt begins our conversation about large men missing free throws. He hasnt studied this particular affliction, but he has spent about a decade investigating the anatomy of the yips, studying over 250 amateur golfers and other pros using his SAM PuttLab technology.Marquardt is not convinced that natural selection totally explains why big men struggle at free throws. He said the heart of the problem goes deeper -- down, for some players, to their very neurological roots.The yips, Marquardt explains, are not mechanical. They go away if you remove the perceived risks. Take the ball away, and golfers can swing normally. But the yips roar back when the ball is returned to the putting green.They can be distance dependent, too. Six-foot putt? No yips. Five feet? No yips. Four feet? Yips.And then it becomes more strange if, for example, you change the attribute of the ball, Marquardt said. If you place magnets under the ball so the ball can no longer move, what happens? No yips.As detailed in a 2014 New Yorker story, Marquardt sees this weird phenomenon with world-renowned pianists who deal with focal dystonia, a dysfunction of a limb or joint, particularly the hands. If you remove the piano, their fingers come back to life. Something about the task itself drives the dysfunction.If you are in a situation where you are in front of a task which requires precision, in the back of your mind you think: How can I do that? How can I be more precise? And then add consequences. If you fail, you get a different pattern.Ah, yes. The hot coffee. It turns out free throws arent the problem. Its free throws in games that cause the basketball yips.DeAndre Jordan is one of the best players in the NBA, yet the Los Angeles Clippers center spends long stretches of close games on the bench purely so opponents wont send him marching to the free throw line. He said he practices hundreds of free throws a day ... to no avail. Jordans free throw rate the past four seasons (41.4 percent) is no better than his first four seasons (44 percent).Id just think, like, OK, dont f---ing air-ball it, he recently told teammate JJ Redick on Redicks Vertical podcast. Like, you cant air-ball it. ?Dont do that, and itll be OK. I dont want to be on Shaqtin A Fool, he said, referencing the recurring TNT segment in which ONeal roasts players for their mishaps.The consequence of failure is clear: humiliation by your idols thats broadcast around the world.All eyes are on you, Jordan said. There are other things that you can watch that go on [in live action]. But free throws are the one time in the game where everything stops. Everybody 100 percent focuses on one person.Humiliation can be a powerful deterrent. On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points while making 28 free throws and missing just four.?On his Revisionist History podcast, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell points out that Chamberlain missed four out of 32 on that famous evening by shooting underhanded. After converting a career-high 61.3 percent from the free throw line that season, he shockingly reverted back to shooting overhanded the following year.Gladwell uses this example to demonstrate why some people choose wrong despite knowing whats best for them. Gladwell interviews Rick Barry, who says he tried to get Shaq to change. According to Barry, Shaq turned down his advice, claiming: Id rather shoot zero [percent] than shoot underhanded.Gladwell points out that this humiliation factor also drove Chamberlain away from the granny shot.I felt silly, like a sissy, shooting underhanded, Chamberlain wrote in his autobiography. I know I was wrong. I just couldnt do it.In other words, Chamberlain felt it was more humiliating to succeed while looking silly than to fail while looking cool. (Or, he defined success as looking cool.)Howard made 67.1 percent of his free throws his rookie season, but hes only gotten worse as his career has goes on, bottoming-out to a career-low 48.9 percent this past season. Though he said he practices more than ever these days, he claimed the more he practices, the worse he gets.It causes us to think more, Howard said.Howard remembers hitting 465 out of 500 free throws in practice one day with the Los Angeles Lakers. He made 49.2 percent of his in-game freebies that season.And for the next two or three games, I was really locked in, Howard said. But then I started thinking so much about it, I started missing. I was working so hard not to miss, I missed all of them.Free throw shooting is all mental. In practice, I dont miss. In warm-ups, I dont miss. When I get into a game, I hear people say, Hes going to miss, and it gets inside my head.Like Jordan, Howard suffers from Shaqtin-A-Fool-phobia. Hack-a-Shaq only makes it worse.Because of all the attention to it, our flaw has been magnified to the whole world, Howard said. Ive got little kids at basketball camps telling me, My dad says you suck at free throws. Other players have flaws, but they arent getting magnified the way the free throws are.In Orlando early in his career, Howard said he hired a personal sports psychologist who used to work with Tiger Woods. He has also tried singing songs in his head to keep his mind off the task.I used to sing Beyoncé songs, that was my thing, Howard said. I told her about it when I saw her. I said, When I sing your song, I make my free throws. She seemed to like that.Rick Ankiel could hear the blood draining from his head. The then-20-year-old St. Louis Cardinals phenom didnt know it at the time, but he was suffering from a mental breakdown on the mound during a 2000 MLB division series game.Once I threw the one pitch that didnt sit right, then it all started to unravel, Ankiel said recently.Ankiel experienced one of sports highest-profile cases of the yips. After a regular season that earned him second place for National League rookie of the year, Ankiel all of a sudden forgot how to pitch. He threw five wild pitches in one inning, the first to do so since Bert Cunningham in 1890.He spent the next few years in the minors battling control problems and injury. The struggle became so mentally taxing that he switched positions, eventually making it back to the majors as a power-hitting outfielder.Ankiel doesnt follow the NBA, but he sympathizes with hack-a-players, who also struggle to hit their targets. When his struggles set in, Ankiels thoughts were flooded with questions of mechanics. Wheres your release point? Is your elbow right? What about the grip? Why cant you just throw it, damnit?Eventually, his hands went numb.I didnt even understand what was happening, Ankiel said. I couldnt even feel the ball in my hands. The feeling went away.Ankiel returned to the mound effectively for a brief stint in 2004, but it took years of counseling from famed sports psychologist Harvey Dorfman, who had helped Cy Young winners Greg Maddux and Roy Halladay.Upon hearing about Jordans mental dont f---ing air-ball it battle, Ankiel chuckled. Im not laughing at him, Im laughing with him because I get it, Ankiel said. Ive been there. Harvey taught me to always tell yourself what you want to do, not what you dont want to do.Ankiel said the brain blows past those verbal traffic cones and instead goes right to visualizing those forbidden images. Ankiel used to tell himself not to throw it in the dirt, or dont pepper the backstop.If I say, Dont think about a pink elephant, what do you see? Ankiel said. Right.If I say dont f---ing air-ball it, the image you see is the f---ing air ball. The brain doesnt know how to function with that kind of message.To this day, Ankiel is the only player in MLB history other than Babe Ruth to win 10 games as a pitcher and hit over 50 home runs. Before relearning how to perform a simple task, Ankiel had to relearn how to think. Practice had little to do with it.I was one of those people, Ankiel said, who practiced too much.A five-mile stretch along Carnegie Avenue in downtown Cleveland is all that separates Brooke Macnamaras office and Quicken Loans Arena, where Cavaliers players put up hundreds of shots before every game. Macnamara is a psychological sciences researcher at Case Western Reserve University, where she has spent the past several years studying the value of all of those practice shots.Her latest research, published in the May issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science journal, focuses on the 10,000-hour rule, a theory popularized by Gladwells 2008 book Outliers. The rule states that to master any skill requires, among other things, about 10,000 hours of proper practice.What Macnamara discovered is that deliberate practice among elite athletes at the national, international and Olympic levels explained just 1 percent of the variance in performance. Once you get to the top of the sport, more hours in the gym dont necessarily lead to better results.Practice isnt as important as these views suggest, she said over the phone. Practice is overrated.She also pointed to a 2007 study that shows chess players need as little as 3,000 hours and as many as 23,000 hours of total practice to achieve master status. Even among non-elite athletes, only 18 percent of the variance in performance could be explained by deliberate practice.I think it is in line with the American Dream: With hard work and determination, you can become whoever you want, Macnamara said. Its a very pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps sort of idea. People view that as an overly positive and inspiring [message]. But the problem with it, of course, is if its not accurate, you have a misconception.For some athletes, Dr. Christian Marquardt said, practice is not the answer at all -- not if the issue is thinking too much about public criticism.You think, OK, Im at 85 percent from the line now, and then you go back into the game and then you have even more reason to think about it when the performance drops again, he said. Which makes you think more because theres a difference there. ?You start to wonder, What the hell is going on!?The basketball brain is one trained to react. In some ways, it follows Parkinsons law, which says work expands to fill the time available for its completion. In live action, decisions are made in milliseconds. Free throws come with a whole minute or so to ponder. Thoughts expand, like a gas, to fill the space.Sometimes the better you are inside of the game, the worse you are if you have time to think, Marquardt said. Standing in front of a free throw, your brain starts doing something consciously. But in live action of the game, you dont really know whats going on because there are so many muscles and so many actions involved. Theres no time to think.The crowd boos, anxiety mounts and the shooter concludes that he needs to work harder to do better. But hitting a high number of free throws in practice may only provide a false sense of success. Marquardt calls this the illusion of learning.This is a misunderstanding, he said. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.Think about how Reggie Miller carried himself on the court and off. Or Steph Curry. Have you ever gotten the sense that either really cared whether people liked them?Then think about DeAndre Jordan, essentially praying nobody would make fun of him.Somewhere in there is where the most useful work is likely to be, Marquardt said. When it comes to free throws, its better to accept failure and learn to not fear it.And heres where we get to the military snipers. Like basketball players, snipers work in an active, high-energy environment. But in the midst of that, they must perform a task that requires calm and focus.In order to combat this, these highly trained shooters will synchronize low breaths with a slow heart rate to achieve maximal stillness. They call it breathing down, and once you are calm, you have about a 1.5-second window before your brain takes over again, putting the whole enterprise in jeopardy.Youve got to control your breathing so that as you go to pull the trigger for the shot, the pointing end of your gun isnt flailing all around with your heart rate, Cassidy explained.Marquardt suggests working on ramping down -- i.e., relaxation techniques to calm the central nervous system -- before taking a free throw. Focusing on breathing and lowering the heart also lowers stress hormones from deploying and raising anxiety. Think about the process, not the consequence.Certainly you need to practice like hell to be a great athlete, Marquardt said. But you need to have the right practice. You need to learn how to learn.Cassidy spends his days watching some of the nations highest-skilled workers perform impossible feats in the space program, but they sometimes think themselves into trouble. He said they must practice situations such as: Im working on this thing and that thing right now and -- whoops, I just lost power over here; now this is my most important thing. And you start working through all three and keeping your head above water. Maintaining your situational awareness as things get crazier and more dynamic is probably the single-most important attribute to being a good astronaut.Even after months of training, his astronauts sometimes lose the ability to simply grab an object floating by them in space.You do it a thousand times, and all of sudden when people are watching and grading you -- its not the 18th green at the Masters, but still, thats when we see the yips.Cassidy sees parallels for the NBA free throw shooter, but one trick he picked up during his SEAL days has nothing to do with the hands.You wiggle your toes, Cassidy said. Thats a technique I tell people during space walks. If youre getting stressed and nervous and gripping things too hard, just wiggle your toes, and that miraculously relaxes your whole body. Works like a champ. Try it some time. Cheap Panthers Jerseys . The Cincinnati Reds remain perfect with their speedy rookie outfielder in the starting lineup. Authentic Cam Newton Jerseys . 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We play the game hard, we play the game right.Davis passed Hall of Famer Frank Robinson for sole possession of ninth place on the Orioles career home run list with 180. He and Machado had three hits apiece.Kim drove in three runs, adding an RBI double in the seven-run sixth. Davis homered and doubled in the inning, Schoop had a two-run double and Machado hit a two-run single.Jones, who went to San Diegos Morse High, hit an opposite-field homer to right, his 16th, on the second pitch from Erik Johnson. Kim also went to right field on his two-run homer in the fifth, his second. Davis drove reliever Carlos Villanuevas first pitch an estimated 417 feet to center leading off the sixth, his 19th.Ubaldo Jimenez (5-7) beat the Padres in consecutive starts, holding them to one run and three hits in five innings, with five strikeouts and four walks. He won 7-2 against the Padres in Baltimore last Wednesday.He made a lot of good pitches, manager Buck Showalter said. I thought he a had crisp fastball, had command of it. I liked the fact he got right back up there and got some outs after the leadoff home run. Well take it.Upton had a big game for the Padres. He homered 462 feet, according to ESPN Stats & Information, off the batters eye in straightaway center field leading off the bottom of the first and had two defensive gems. The first was robbing Hardy of the home run, and the second was a sliding catch of Kims sinking liner in the third.Upton said his homer-robbing catch was No. 1 for sure on his list of big catches.Ive never really had an opportunity in center field, he said. Honestly, that one I just kind of jumped for it. Kind of surprised it ended up in my glove. I knew I was close to it, but I mean, odds are you catch that are very slim, but I did it, so, cool.Manager Andy Green said it was one of the best catches Ive ever seen from Upton. Kept the ball I the ballpark. That one I thought was gone. That one disappeared. I didnt realize he had caught it. It was a heck of a double play.San Diegos Wil Myers hit a three-run homer off Oliver Drake in the seventh, his 18th. It was his 11th this month, the most ever by a Padres player in June.Johnson (0-4) allowed four runs and seven hits in five innings, struck out two and walked none.TRAINERS ROOMPadres: CF Jon Jay went on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 20, with a broken right forearm. To take his place on the roster, infielder-outfielder Alex Dickerson was recalled from Triple-A El Paso.UP NEXTOrioles: RHP Yovani Gallardo (2-1, 6.04) is scheduled to start the series finale Wednesday afternoon.Padres: LHP Christian Friedrich (4-2, 3.60) is scheduled to make his ninth start of the season.The Associated Press contributed to this report. Wholesale Browns Authentic Jerseys . Parker had 26 points and eight assists and San Antonio beat Toronto 112-99 Monday night. 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SINGAPORE -- Nico Rosberg set the fastest time in practice Friday for the Singapore Grand Prix, while Mercedes teammate and title rival Lewis Hamilton could manage only seventh after being hampered by a hydraulics failure.Rosberg, who has won the past two races and trails Hamilton by only two points, recovered from a crash into a tire barrier in the first session at the Marina Bay street circuit.In the night session -- with greater grip and in conditions more representative of what they will face in Saturdays qualifying and Sundays race -- he was a quarter of a second faster than Ferraris Kimi Raikkonen, with Red Bulls Max Verstappen a further tenth of a second back in third.The presence of Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull in close proximity at the top of the timesheets promises a hard-fought qualifying and race, living up to expectations that this grand prix was one in which the usually dominant Mercedes could be vulnerable.The headline times promised a tight qualifying shootout, while the long-run times during Fridays sessions were also close, indicating an even contest Sunday.Daniel Ricciardo was fourth fastest, only a couple of hundredths of a second behind teammate Verstappen despite the young Dutchman having the advantage of the exclusive use of the upgraded Renault engine while Ricciardo used the old version.Ferraaris Sebastian Vettel was fifth and Nico Hulkenberg of Force India sixth ahead of Hamilton. 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Thats got to really be the staple of who we are.Tennessee (3-3) was returning from a nine-day layoff after going 1-2 in the Maui Invitational last week, but it was Georgia Tech that looked like it hadnt played in over a week. Tennessee stayed in control virtually the entire way and led by as many as 28 points.Georgia Tech (4-3) played without usual starting guard Justin Moore, who stayed in Atlanta because of a stomach virus. Josh Heath, who made 15 starts in 2015-16, started in Moores place and scored just two points while shooting 0 for 7.Our mentality has been attack, attack, attack, Georgia Tech coach Josh Pastner said. We played `un-attack today. We played real passive. I was disappointed in our energy level. That falls on my shoulders. Hopefully I can analyze and examine some things and decide what we can do to get better.Tennessee was playing its third straight game without Jordan Bone, who has a stress fracture in his left foot. Bone had been Tennessees starting point guard before his injury. The Vols also played a third straight game without forward Admiral Schofield due to a violation of team rules.The Vols overcame the absence of those two guys by getting big contributions from just about everyone who did play.Williams 14 points represented a career high for the freshman forward. Phillips, a natural shooting guard playing point guard for now, had five rebounds and a career-high seven assists with only one turnover.I feel liike I can play off the ball and I can play on the ball, Phillips said. Wholesale Jerseys. Whatever the team needs at the time... if somebody steps up and (Barnes) feels like theyre doing a better job than me, Ill move back to the wing. But personally I do enjoy playing the point. 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Some guys are just blessed with that.Baker pointed to Nolan Ryan, who pitched into his 40s and had a good work ethic -- just like Scherzer.Nolan Ryan worked his butt off, Ryan said.The same can be said of Scherzer, who was signed by the Nationals prior to the 2015 season.His legs are good and his mind is strong, said Baker, in his first year with the Nationals.Baker has asked Scherzer to let rookie pitcher Lucas Giolito follow him around and pick his brain before games.Some of the Phillies have had little success against Scherzer, who threw two no-hitters last season.Ryan Howard is hitting .100 in 20 at-bats against Scherzer although Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said it is unlikely Howard starts Saturday.Maikel Franco (wrist), who did not start for the third day in a row Friday, is hitting .067 in 15 trips to the plate against Scherzer while Freddy Galvis is hitting .182 in 25 at-bats.Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said after Fridays game that he hopes Franco can play Saturday.Cesar Hernandez is hitting .238 in 21 at-bats against Scherzer, a native of St. Louis who won a Cy Young Award with the Detroit Tigers.The Phillies starter on Saturday will be Jerad Eickoff, who was one of three pitchers the Texas Rangers traded to Philadelphia in July, 2015 for veteran lefty Cole Hamels.Eickoff is 10-13, 3.86 this year in 28 starts and has 138 strikeouts while giving up 166 hits in 167 2/3 innings. 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But what you have to understand is they are mad passionate fans and something wasnt right in the last one.I imagine when we get to Germany, maybe we will have the same thing. I hope not because I think in sport in general, it is not the done thing. If I went to a football game and the other team won, I wouldnt boo the other team because they did a better job and that is real sportsmanship.Hamilton experienced a vastly contrasting reaction to Rosberg, lapping up the adulation of a frenzied home crowd. 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