Martin’s Layup Yips

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Why? How does he fix it? He routinely leaves 6-8 easy points a game rattling off the rim. Seems every year we have a guy with layup yips. Reminds me of Larrier.

 

[krinklecut]

Why? How does he fix it? He routinely leaves 6-8 easy points a game rattling off the rim. Seems every year we have a guy with layup yips. Reminds me of Larrier.

to be fair, every year purvis was on the floor was a year we had a guy with layup yips

 

[ucawn]

Why? How does he fix it? He routinely leaves 6-8 easy points a game rattling off the rim. Seems every year we have a guy with layup yips. Reminds me of Larrier.

Looks like he was nursing an ankle injury or a knee injury last game. You could see him grimacing and then took a shot to the knee from Cole. He wasn’t as explosive going to the cup hence he left a bunch of them short. It’s weird though, 2 games in a row where he can’t make the bunnies. I bet it won’t continue to happen.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

to be fair, every year purvis was on the floor was a year we had a guy with layup yips

CV too sometimes

 

[Magic32]

Why? How does he fix it? He routinely leaves 6-8 easy points a game rattling off the rim. Seems every year we have a guy with layup yips. Reminds me of Larrier.

He's just padding his rebounding statistics

 

[Spaceman213J]

I think they will start to foul.

It's one of the tough things about being a great undersized rebounder. He's not small,, but he is often sandwiched by the other teams bigs when he pulls down an OB. Then he's a SF going up again the other teams C or PF in the paint. That's a tough ask of anyone.

When nobody is on his back, I'd like to see him pivot out and develop a little baby hook.

Anyways, I thought Carlton was like that a little bit at the start of his freshman year. The game will just slow down a bit for him, and they'll start to fall.

 

[Improviser]

He's just padding his rebounding statistics

Larrier had an awful lot of bunnies. He was taller than Martin. Maybe his injury history did him in and took away some spring.

 

[ARIDE]

Why? How does he fix it? He routinely leaves 6-8 easy points a game rattling off the rim. Seems every year we have a guy with layup yips. Reminds me of Larrier.

Find something better to do than pick out the negatives..he does so much more that you focus on..

 

[Stinger92860]

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Find something better to do than pick out the negatives..he does so much more that you focus on..

its a legit question. He is doing a great job on the offensive glass. It would be great to take advantage of it. An extra 4+ points a game is huge for him and the team.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

He's just padding his rebounding statistics

Almost does look like he’s pulling a Ricky Davis sometimes.

 

[Dutch Boyd]

They will start to fall. Like i said yesterday, he's the key to our success and probably the most important player we have the next few years. Just a few years ago we couldn't get a single offensive rebound, smh!

 

[HuskyHawk]

I will say what I always say: dunk the ball. Don’t be cute. Draw the foul, take the ball up strong, don’t play patty cake with it.

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

Martin shot >50% on two point attempts both years at URI. I suspect we’ll see him get better there and his 3pt shooting regress.

 

[TheChamps990411]

Why? How does he fix it? He routinely leaves 6-8 easy points a game rattling off the rim. Seems every year we have a guy with layup yips. Reminds me of Larrier.

He did this in the games i saw him play at RI. Its wierd. He misses a lot of bunnies.

 

[huskypantz]

He did this in the games i saw him play at RI. Its wierd. He misses a lot of bunnies.

My guess is that he’s rushing the shot because he’s in proximity of the trees. It’s a little bit knowing who’s around you and a little bit of the nervous nellies. He’ll get better but it’s not going away. Interior guys have 4-8” on him with reach. What’s funny is that his rebounding mentality is fearless and normally you’d expect that to carry over around the basket with the ball in his hands.

 

[UConnSwag11]

to be fair, every year purvis was on the floor was a year we had a guy with layup yips

We still have Carlton and polley

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

To me he’s like a QB who can rifle it 60 yards downfield but struggles to loft it to a receiver on a 10 yard slant

 

[Austin316]

I’m sure it’s been talked about during film. It bothers me as well but I wouldn’t put the writing on the wall if we are winning games

 

[TheChamps990411]

My guess is that he’s rushing the shot because he’s in proximity of the trees. It’s a little bit knowing who’s around you and a little bit of the nervous nellies. He’ll get better but it’s not going away. Interior guys have 4-8” on him with reach. What’s funny is that his rebounding mentality is fearless and normally you’d expect that to carry over around the basket with the ball in his hands.

We`ll see. I seen him missing layups on fast breaks when no one was really around him. Its just wierd.

 

[Ratso]

“yips” worst term eva

 

[Chin Diesel]

to be fair, every year purvis was on the floor was a year we had a guy with layup yips

Purvis would step on the sideline twice a game, put up layups that wouldn't touch the time, and them go on a personal 12-0 highlight run.

It was Johnny time X infinty maddening.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

He is penetrating too deep and then not giving himself a good angle on the finish. The help defense had pinned him in under the backboard on most of those ugly misses, which made them low percentage shots despite how close he was. He needs to get rid of the ball on the penetration a few times or take a 5 foot floater. This will keep the help defense honest.

 

[navery12]

Perfect summary of the Boneyard

 

[Lefty2one]

To me he seems to rush things in traffic. The best teaching advice I ever heard related to this topic is that "you finish in the paint with your eyes". You have to find your target, the square on the backboard, with your eyes. As silly as that may sound, when you're in a sea of bodies and trying to get a shot up quickly, some players just sort of throw a shot up there without finding their target.

 

[alphasigko]

Both he and Josh appear to have the same problem..... No touch when going up for the layup in heavy traffic...