“He’s as damaging as WESTBRICK” Skip Bayless rips apart LeBron James for major free throw slump

“He’s as damaging as WESTBRICK” Skip Bayless rips apart LeBron James for major free throw slump

LeBron James and Skip Bayless

NBA player Russell Westbrook will continue to play with his current team, Los Angeles Lakers, for the 2022-2023 season. They have acquired the services of Patrick Beverley to build their defense after their perishable last season. It will be interesting to see how ‘King James’ makes a return to form after he struggled to play. He has been taking hard turns and was seen preparing for the season at pro-am games. On the other hand, sports analyst Skip Bayless mocked LeBron James.

Russell Westbrook and LeBron James
Russell ‘Westbrick’ and LeBron James

Skip tweeted, saying, “I keep hearing LeBron is “in the lab.” He’d better be working on free-throw shooting. He took the 15th most in the NBA last season, ranked only 86th in FT %. Just killed the Lakers. Almost as damaging as Westbrick.” Here he was comparing James’ free throw shooting as worse than his teammate Russell ‘Westbrick.’

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Nonetheless, whatever people say, LeBron’s shooting has been the most impactful one. He is just ahead of Malik Monk, a straight-up-scorer. The only area concerned for the NBA megastar was of free-throws. But he has made steady progress and is trying to build up his free-throw average points, and comparing him to someone like Russell ‘Westbrick’ only on one part can be unfair towards him and all he has done for the game.

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LeBron James’ free-throw woes continue

LeBron James
LeBron James

The free-throw average points have been a talking point for quite a time now, and it was a weaker side for him since he entered NBA. Therefore, one cannot ask him to progress in a shorter span of time. He doesn’t need to convert all the free throws he gets; only a few conversion shots can still be acceptable from the lakers’ point of view.

James made remarkable progress by being a better free throw shooter last season by averaging 75.8% from the line. It is 7% more than what he averaged last season. LeBron’s career free throw percentage is 73.4%, so his primary focus should be staying above that number. And with this, he can consistently convert the most straightforward shot in basketball so that the Lakers will be in a better position.

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