

"Most of the athletes say they want to do it like always done it.… They don't want to hear. "You'll need to change something," sports psychologist Debbie Crews, who has studied the yips for two decades, told Newsweek. Where do you even start? In many cases, it means altering the way you've done something your entire life. The yips are a slog to fix, if you can fix them at all.

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Chuck Hayes's free throws were a long-running herky-jerky dance. Chuck Knoblauch couldn't toss a ball a few feet from second to first base. It took Rick Ankiel years to stop sailing pitches. Mackey Sasser couldn't throw from home plate to the mound. If sports history is any indicator, overcoming the yips is not simple. You could see his remarkable talent, and his shot looked better than the worst practice videos-but was he still benched for most of the key games. Add the fact that his troubles followed him to the free throw line and Fultz's issues are pretty severe.Īfter sitting out most of the year, he returned just before the playoffs. It effectively slices down the space on the court available to your team-the defense can ignore Fultz if he's relatively far from the hoop-and it hamstrings Fultz, severely limiting what he can do if he's not a few feet from the basket. Playing guard in the NBA without a serviceable jumper is a difficult, if not impossible, task.
