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The Dartmouth
April 18, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
John Beneville and Alex Lee
The Setonian
Sports

Shoot for It: With Alex Lee '16 and John Beneville '16

The “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.

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