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Or wear orange shirts.
I wish I could have seen the PHX game last night in HD to see how that view looked.
Why don't we do it? Steve Kerr once mentioned on his yahoo column that this tactic employed at Duke really works.... Everyone behind the backboard section moving side-to-side in a syncronized fashion....
Kori is this something we could organize for the next home game maybe with flyers that describe the tactic and its effectiveness???
We know the balloons don't work because the background looks like "noise" and can be filtered out by focusing on the rim.... when the background however, pops to the foreground on account of the syncronized motion, lining up a shot becomes a more difficult for task for the shooter.... If anything it makes them think more about their shot and that is distraction enough...
Or wear orange shirts.
I wish I could have seen the PHX game last night in HD to see how that view looked.
It was hard enough to get people to buy tickets to Game 5, you actually think you can get something like this together? Good luck, SA fans are spoiled and lazy.
An army of Bravatars would do the trick for me
sounds good....(now if someone is willing to give me a ticket i would definately participate ;-)!!!!!!!
It can be organized through that respective section's jumbotron... Also, the task can be delegated to the cheerleaders facing that section...
Of course in that section you would probably have to deal with apathetic fans, drunk fans, opposing fans, or you hit the nail on the head.... lazy fans.
We need to get Angel_luv to shove some people around and enforce this policy.
Imagine this. ^^^
Well, with a winning program, butts in the seats and multiple people with basketball boobies jumping up and down on free throws and that's it.
If you look directly behind the cheerleader on the left of the pic and see a blue-shirted arm, that's me. I can attest to the effectiveness of Lindsay's basket-boobs. We had one of our own players do a double-take on an inbounds play, then go on a 7-point run, steal, rebound and 2 blocks in a span of two minutes.
We've had opposing players miss FTs and one double-take and have a pass go off their hands and out of bounds.
Believe me, we let them have it the rest of the game, and it was much easier since we were three feet from the court.
Spurs fans, that can be you with orange balls on your breasts.
Yeah, but how would you focus that distraction on just the opposing players if everyone in the crowd was wearing them, JB?
At the Palace, we use cups filled with liquid instead of with silicone.
The only reason I bring this up is cause I'm tired of people coming to our house to get bailed by the refs and then getting free points.... Let's make them nervous... let's make them lose their aggresiveness toward our hoop... Let's make them fear the line.
Kevin '80's haircut' Martin is frickin' 16 for 16 from the FT line at the AT&T Center... (27 for 27 for the series)... It's the fans' job to make the trip to the FT line a more difficult task for the opponent by being smart and organized as opposed to being rude and unruly (though there are times for the latter....)
We all know when Timmy starts missing his free-throws he somehow seems to infect the team with it... it's a major momentum killer.... We too can influence the game and kill the other team's momentum with this tactic...
We need to find a way to get this organized!!!
Last edited by hegamboa; 05-03-2006 at 12:29 PM.
It can be organized through that respective section's jumbotron... Also, the task can be delegated to the cheerleaders facing that section...
Of course in that section you would probably have to deal with apathetic fans, drunk fans, opposing fans, or you hit the nail on the head.... lazy fans.
We need to get Angel_luv to shove some people around and enforce this policy.
We need to move the club 200 people down and let the rich snobs look down on everyone from above.
Granted there are some great lower level fans we should let stay down there- Dr, Schwartz for one. He is always into it.
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See how hard it is to focus on a stationary point when the background moves???
Unfortunately I can't put more emoticons than that to get a better feel for the effect...
Kori.... is this even possible???
Instead of concentrating on ways to make other teams miss, maybe the Spurs should just work on their own FT shooting??
The Aggies sometimes will be totally quiet right up until the shooter is ready to release the FT, then they all yell in unison and it always make the FT shooter flinch, it seems to be the most effective tactic.
i went to duke. that tactic isnt as effective as some hairy guy that would strip down to a speedo and dance while everybody sat down and got quiet. the ft shooter missed like 50% of the time!
Great Thread.
Love the idea. Let's make it happen.
Probably because free throw shooting hasn't been a huge problem in the series. The Spurs are shooting 79.3% for the series and are 81-95 from the line (85.3%) at home in the series.Instead of concentrating on ways to make other teams miss, maybe the Spurs should just work on their own FT shooting??
The Spurs missed 6 free throws in Game 3 and lost by 1, but the Kings took 10 more attempts in that game and missed 2 more free throws, so the misses were essentially a wash. In Game 4, the Spurs missed 10 free throws, but even if they had made all of those, they still would have lost by double figures.
Maybe the Spurs themselves can work on that.Instead of concentrating on ways to make other teams miss, maybe the Spurs should just work on their own FT shooting??
But this is about what us the fans can do to help any way we can.
I love the idea.
Instead of concentrating on ways to make other teams miss, maybe the Spurs should just work on their own FT shooting??
It's about getting the fans to kill the other team's momentum and swagger... more so than the points...
You don't think hitting 27 straight free-throws gives the player added confidence to take a shot he probably would otherwise pass-up???
Even better Jim!!!
Let's combine both tactics.... a quiet sway back and forth with both hands above and square with the shoulders.... suddenly everyone yells!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH or Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiccccck!! !
Again,
Let's make them nervous...
let's make them lose their aggresiveness toward our hoop...
Let's make them fear the line. Instead of gaining confidence from it....
Seeing that the next game is in ARCO, I get the feeling that you have all conceded game 6 and are getting ready to employ your tactics in game 7.
I'm talking about Dallas and Detroit
In the late 70s and 80s when Arkansas Razorbacks Basketball was always in national contention, fans at the home games would sway left and right while waving.... dunno if it worked but was hilarious to watch.
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