Re: CHI/ARZ Thread
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I assume you meant buckner, which is a big choke, but really, any hit scores the run.
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Not only is Buckner not the bad guy (Schiraldi and Stanley are) but he almost certainly wouldn't have gimped his way to first before Mookie Wilson got there anyway. OT I know, but this always bugs me.
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I take it back, btw. Nick Anderson's 4 missed ft's were the biggest choke ever, then Yankees, then Hoch in the US Open, ( I think)
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Hoch was the Masters. That's what got him the nickname "Scott Choke".
I want to vindicate myself for a thread a long time ago about Nick Anderson's FT%. People said that after that legendary choke that he returned to form at the line. I found out some time later that he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a FT towards the end of his career. Plus, is anyone here besides me old enough to remember those shots? They were awful. I mean, lucky-to-stay-in-the-arena bad.
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THe buckner play, i THINK the pitcher would have been there to cover, not positive.
NA's FT's, I don; remember how bad off they were, and I didn't find out until just tonight how bad he got after wards at FT's.
From Wikipedia;
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Psychological disorder
Anderson is well known for his role in sports psychology. After missing four pivotal free throws in the 1995 NBA Championships that led to the defeat of the Orlando Magic to the Houston Rockets, Anderson developed a psychological problem that greatly affected his free throw shooting. His free throw percentage dipped sharply and dropped to 40% at one point. He had developed a fear of shooting free throws as a result of his belief that his missed free throws in the NBA Finals caused the Magic to lose. This was an anomaly as he was considered to be a great shooter. After the help of sports psychologists, Anderson improved his free throw shooting but showed signs of his fear again during the last year of his NBA career.
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The next year, he shot .692, only slighly worse than his career avg up to that point, but then shot .404, .638, .611, .487 to finish up his career.
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