How the HELL are these guys professional basketball players? And good ones!
Like gourds, professional basketball players come in all different shapes and sizes. And also like gourds, there are some professional basketball players who stand out for a very particular reason: they're ugly. Not ugly physically — these are professional athletes we're talking about — but ugly in how they shoot the ball, which is the most basic part of the game they play.
Leandro Barbosa
Poised like an old woman in front of shelves at the grocery store, Leandro Barbosa pushes his shot away using two hands. It looks like he was taught to shoot with a medicine ball. Every little kid has to listen to their dad be like, "Buck, don't shoot with two hands" for the entirety of his or her childhood, but Leandro didn't give a DAMN.
Corresponding Animal: this dog.
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Tayshaun Prince
Tayshaun Prince's arms are longer than most regulation firehoses, which means that every shot sees him unfurling from within himself like a trebuchet. By the end, the ball seems like it should have so much torque that it'll fly over the backboard, but nope: he's a career 46% shooter.
