It’s no secret that Dwight Howard has issues at the free throw line. In fact teams have resulted to the Hack-a-Dwight method in late close games. Howard is aware of the troubles and gives an explanation as to why its happening.
After another poor performance from the line on Monday night against the Raptors (Howard was 4-of-12), he told reporters he just didn’t want to talk about free throws anymore. “I don’t want to talk about it,” Howard said. … “We talk about it so much, I think about it at the line. I don’t want to think about it. I want to shoot. That’s what I do in practice. I shoot in practice and I don’t miss because I am not thinking about it.” Howard said that he is overthinking free throw shots in games, and missing them because of it. He said he is making up for the lack of free throws in other ways. “I get in the game and I think so much that I tend to miss,” Howard said.
