Shoot for It: With Alex Lee '16 and John Beneville '16
By John Beneville and Alex Lee | February 2, 2016The “Hack-a-Shaq” has become a widely employed strategy in basketball. It involves identifying a member of the opposing team with a weak free throw percentage and purposefully fouling that player to send them to the free throw line. The ultimate hope is that the fouled player will miss the free throw and possession will go to the team that originally committed the foul.