I don't see it but I didn't play much basketball. I visualize the ball rolling into a tube. So long as I maintain the path of the ball in between the walls of the tube, I know it'll go in. Weird, right?
I got that too. It's all about rhythm, and that was a great way of explaining it. All good free throw shooter have great rhythm. Like 2 dribbles then shoot. Phil will take two practice putts, step up and putt. Same rhythm every time.
Thats true but also in basketball you don't have to worry about spin or the ball curving away from the target. In golf you do. You can't simply just focus on the hole and expect it to go in. In some way, whether subliminal or consciously, you have to read the break and produce a stroke that feeds off the break into the hole. I actually like what Tiger Woods said a lot more. He paints a picture in his head when he looks at the hole and he putts to the picture because he had already read the break while painting the picture.
It has been proven that professional athletes rarely give good tips. They can’t verbalize what they feel and default to saying things like “rhythm and tempo”
Today there are idiots pushing putting launch monitors🤦🏻♂️Utterly ridiculous! Can you imagine the same philosophy being applied to basketball players or darts players?? For goodness sake, the stroke is small and so long as there is a good quality of strike almost any method that creates a consistent accelerating blow will work well; and if the rhythm and tempo match the full swing all the better .....
I have always gone back to an open stance with my putting. I feel like I can "see" the line better. When I tried to square up and get all my lines right, my putting went downhill.
It's too hard for grandmasters to say what they feel while doing their craft so it's no surprise that his secret was "rythm and tempo." You can't teach feel
