 throw, was one of the most effective shooters of all time and when he retired in 1980 his 90% free throw record ranked first in NBA history. But he struggled to convince his teammates due to the inescapable fact that shooting underarm “makes you look like a sissy,” Barry said.
Another reason why granny style isn't used is regarding muscle memory. Professional athletes practice their overhand shot countless times and the free throws can piggyback on that motor skill.
For centers who rarely attempt jump shots though? Like, did Shaq have a ton of built up muscle memory for normal jump shooting motion when most of his points came from dunks, layups, and low post moves?
Shaq was an absolute force of nature down low, and was a career 52.7% free throw shooter. If he'd shot underhand and bumped it up to 75%, that's an extra 2,500 points over his career.
But it would also would have taken away the Hack-a-Shaq defense, which simply would have made him more dominant by giving him more space to operate.
It's a choice between a slightly higher free throw percentage stat, and a hundred million dollars in advertising contracts because you look cool doing overhand shots.
Plus its almost entirely useless outside free throws.
Well I wouldn’t say “just cause it looks stupid”. I’m sure we’re both on the same page that this shot sucks in a real game situation and is only a better choice for free throws. Now let’s consider you’re a basketball player who has to balance multiple techniques while still being proficient in them. It makes more sense to stick with one shooting form that works in both free throws and in game situations then trying to balance two forms.
I was doing a painting job for an elderly woman, and when I went to move the clock above the sink in the kitchen, lifting it from a nail on the end of a board that extended past a cabinet, the entire.. Thing mounting it up there fell apart. Upon closer inspection I could see that it was this random conglomeration of wood, tape, and an old whetstone. Fashioned into a perfectly shaped weight from which this wall clock had been hung.
I was kind of laughing at it, I mean it looked like something a well meaning toddler would have crafted, but then the old lady tells me that this thing had been assembled by her husband 50 years ago when he built the kitchen. He'd slapped it together, always meaning to replace it, added the whetstone to weight it down, and slid the whole mess on top of the cabinet with a nail sticking out to hang the clock from.
He'd never gotten around to replacing it, and here we were now where it was still functioning just fine even a few years after his passing.
So I did the logical thing and put it back together.  I figure he must have known something I don't to last that long.
I'm pretty sure I have more pieces of furniture and such enhanced by the might of duct tape than ones that aren't. It just fixes everything. Every time they call me crazy, and every time it works.
I've always heard it as 3 tools, with the addition of Whiskey "for when the duct tape and wd-40 don't work".
I have fixed furniture, cars, eyeglasses, and more with duct tape.
Nothing is cooler than cruising around town in a car with part of it held together with duct tape.
WD-40 is not a lubricant! The WD stands for Water Displacer. It's a solvent that will loosen and move existing lubricant around, but eventually wash it all out and away.
WD-40 is like the "going out to eat on Valentine's or Mother's Day" of the mechanic world.
It will help clear out dried lubricant that is seizing something up, and will also loosen rust.
Eating Cheetos/Takis with chopsticks to avoid Cheeto fingers.
Shit.  Today I learned something valuable. Thank you.
Because of the virus we are stuck inside and aren't able to go outside to do to the movies or have dinner.
So I planned our 2nd date to make a pillow fort. Mind you we are both 20 and socially awkward as hell. It was an excellent idea because we could order and eat sushi in this little comfy fort and watch shrek. And actually get comfortable around each other in a physical way.

In 1999, I built my first computer. I assembled everything and... it didn’t work. As in nothing happened when I pressed any buttons. I removed the motherboard from the case and placed it on my desk, thinking I’d try removing pieces of hardware on it one by one, to see what could be the culprit. But on first try, everything worked.
It turned out that the motherboard was too close to the backside of the tower case. No risers had been provided for either the motherboard or the tower case.
So I used kitchen roll to put between the case back and the motherboard - and it worked flawlessly.
Fast forward to 2004 where I gave the computer to my parents. My mum wanted a bigger harddisk, so I revisited it - and the kitchen roll seemed just fine so I just left it in place. In 2007, I bought a new computer for her - an all-in-one type.
TL;DR: I used kitchen roll to avoid short circuit on a motherboard due to the case back creating the short circuit. It worked for many years.
Broken windshield wiper was temporarily fixed in the rain by tying a piece of scotch tape around it.
Worked so well I left it on for a month or so. My Dad tore it off while asking what is this.
That was about 30 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
How many times have you achieved the Ballmer Peak?
This is not limited to coding. While a lot of people make jokes about drinking to help playing darts or billiards, it's extremely effective in practicing a foreign language. 
I would drink a beer to work on my physics assignments in college. It worked.
Google “Toilet Seat Plate” and hit images.
Makes a good tray for a TV Dinner.
Pretty much everything in /r/redneckengineering.
About 90% of work within the military.

I’ve been doing this for so long that you’d think I’d know by now that 6x7 is 42. But no.
I can literally do some Algebra II equations in my head- no problem, but still don’t know my times tables.
This is the correct way to learn maths. Figuring out how to solve a problem by breaking it down into easier steps is significantly more useful than simply memorising things. This is exactly why we teach maths - so that people learn how to solve problems by breaking them down. No one cares if you know what 6 times 7 is, we can use a calculator to figure that out, but if you're able to reduce complicated problems to a series of simple problems, you're extremely useful to society.
Source: I have a PhD in pure maths.
Restarting something to get it to work.
I work on Avionics in aircraft and this fixes more random errors than I can count. Along with re-racking the box. CAN bus failure? Restart. Intermittent loss of signal?  Random errors you've never seen before? This also fixes those.
My car motor mount is incredibly old and shitty so the previous owners wedged pieces of rubber between the motor and the motor case? (idk much about cars) and it gave the car and extra 7 yrs. my dad plans on shoving more rubber pieces in there.
That's an actual old-school type fix for when motor mounts arent readily available... specifically hockey pucks. It's pretty much a bodge for when you dont want to spend too much money like on an old beater. 
I grew up in MN. The bib overalls everyone wore, had a pocket watch on top, another pocket, jackknife, and a Plier pocket. A farmer could fix something to get by, with wire, and his pliers.
I had to do a HOSA project once. Was in pre pharmacy and hated every second of it. For those who dont know (lucky you) hosa is a big medical project that's supposed to take months. It can be a test, but theres other options. One person brought an actual helicopter to our school for a demonstration of emergency rescue. 
 Called it the suersoul and made a half assed presentation on how it evened out your feet when you had those boots on from injuring a leg so you didnt limp.
I got an A because it worked perfectly well. Took me an hour total. The rest of the class hated me cause they knew I fucked off and made zero effort yet I got an A, while most of them had C's after months of studying and prepping.
It worked, was cheap, and very easy to make. May be dumb but it worked. I used the class time we got to work on it to beat castlevania. Work smarter not harder people.
If you are reading this and have never seen the Red Green show, now is a perfect time to dive into that rabbit hole.
The things that Barney Stinson says to women.
Had a gas line leak, guy buys line, lines not long enough.... I look over at buddy, go get rubber hose/tube.  Done, works. temp/fix, but gets a car moving