Rick Barry gives to assist Mitchell Robinson with underhand repair to his Knicks free throw woes

The Godfather of “granny” free throws has a proposal for Mitchell Robinson: Let me repair your drawback.

Rick Barry, the NBA Corridor of Famer, watched Robinson’s mishaps Saturday with each frustration and confidence that he could make the Knicks heart a 75 p.c foul shooter by going underhand.

“It’s loopy. It’s so unhappy that guys are so unhealthy and never proficient on the best a part of the sport — the one a part of the sport the place no one is making an attempt to cease you from what you’re purported to be doing,” Barry mentioned in an interview with The Submit. “It makes no freaking sense. … Free throws are a essential a part of the sport. It’s unhappy. He’s positively a candidate to me [to shoot underhanded]. He’s acquired to make a swap. You’ll be able to’t be taking pictures 30, 40 p.c.”

Robinson is definitely taking pictures 29 p.c within the playoffs and has been schemed off the ground by Boston’s “Hack-a-Mitch” technique. In Saturday’s Recreation 3, Robinson transformed 4 of his game-high 12 free-throw makes an attempt and logged simply 19 minutes regardless of in any other case being a optimistic rebounding presence for the Knicks.