When the Cleveland commentators dropped the following nuggets of info on me, I started having a legit panic attack: apparently, Collin Sexton’s dad saw a flaw in his son’s shot, so he worked with him to fix it and now it’s all better.
Forgive me for being paranoid, but we’ve seen at least one other high-profile young player receive shooting advice that ended up going very wrong (hint: his name starts with Mark and ends with Ellefultz). And with Sexton, we’re not even talking about his trainer or his coach, who I would least feel some amount of trust towards. We’re talking about his DAD. Maybe his dad is a basketball coach or something, I don’t know, but fathers, no matter how many fatherly qualifications they have, are still fathers. They shouldn’t be stepping in and doing the jobs of the professionals.
I thought Sexton’s form was fine before. It was fine before and it’s fine now. Unless it was extremely broken in a way I couldn’t detect, there’s no reason to wait for a guy to get to the big leagues BEFORE fixing his shot. We’re not talking about Michael Kidd-Gilchrist here. That guy could consume the soul of Mark Price and still have his elbows collide when he shoots. We’re talking about Collin Sexton, the rookie who came into the league with a reliable midrange jumper all ready to go.
If Sexton suddenly develops a hitch in his free throw, I know who I’m going to blame.