Markelle Fultz, Shooting a Basketball
This is old news but I forgot to post it yesterday.
The Orlando Magic put out a couple of video clips showing Markelle Fultz getting some shots up and whatnot.
Have a look at the former #1 overall draft pick:
In case you were wondering what Markelle's been up to… pic.twitter.com/3RE39oLN51
— Orlando Magic (@OrlandoMagic) September 25, 2019
That release point seems… a little lower? It looks just a tad bit lower to me. It’s certainly not the shotput-style mechanic he was exhibiting at times in Philadelphia, and you can see some repetition in this clip below that would suggest he’s finding a bit of muscle memory:
More Markelle 👀 pic.twitter.com/wxxegQYAdK
— Orlando Magic (@OrlandoMagic) September 25, 2019
If the shoulder is still bothering him, and he has continued issues raising his arms above his head, then certainly releasing the ball at a lower point would make sense from a mechanical standpoint. Hard to compare this to last season, though, since you’d have to back almost a full year to pull his most recent NBA game film. We’ll see what happens.
No ill will towards Markelle at all; at this point I’m just fascinated to see how this thing progresses, if it does progress.