Stern Says He Would Like to Eliminate 'Hack-a-Howard' (or Anyone)

From on December 6, 2012

757 reads

4Icon_comment

Hi-res-153856709_crop_north
Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images

When the Orlando Magic and Houston Rockets went to the “hack-a-Howard” strategy — fouling the Lakers Dwight Howard wherever he was on the court, even when he didn’t have the ball, to make him shoot free throws — it worked because it threw the Lakers off. In those two games Howard hit 50 percent of his free throws during the strategy (which still isn’t great), but the greater impact was it threw the Lakers out of rhythm on both ends of the court.

Flag
Props (0)
This article is

What is the duplicate article?

Why is this article offensive?

Where is this article plagiarized from?

Why is this article poorly edited?

Flag This Article
Default-user-icon-comment
or to post a comment

4 Comments

There are no comments yet. Get the conversation started by leaving the first comment
Big
Loading comments...
just now posted just now
  • Loading...
  • Nobody has liked this comment yet
Cancel

This comment and all replies have been deleted This comment has been deleted Undo delete

Follow B/R on Facebook

Fans of

Icon_subscribe
Icon_youtube
Icon_google
NBA

Subscribe Now

We will never share your email address

Thanks for signing up.

We're Scouting Top Writers

Re-Ranking NBA Playoff Superstars Hint: you can use arrow keys to navigate through this channel.