Ray Allen was talking the other day about how he goes out to shoot before every practice, every game, for 20 to 30 minutes. He hoists up shot after shot from different places all over the floor. "When I shoot, whether its for 20 minutes or an hour and half, I really focus on my mechanics and making each shot important."
“I just evolved into finding the time where I could get into the gym when nobody’s in there and do my own thing some of the time,” he said. “I think there are a lot of guys that vary, change up their routines. But, me, it stays the same.”
Not surprisingly, he said he’s often out there with Rondo and Pierce.
“With kill shooters, guys that really perfect their craft, you see that consistency, where they want to get out on the floor and in the gym and shoot when there’s nobody out there to deter them from getting up their shots and deter them from doing what they have to do.”
The sight of Allen throwing up some of his perimeter shots has reminded many of Larry Bird, which Allen takes as a great compliment.
“That’s good company,” he said of the Celtics legend. “He shot the ball the way he did for a reason. To be a great shooter, to be one of the best, you have to be one of the hardest workers, Bird worked tirelessly, he had his own style where he worked so hard that when the games came he was only practicing what he did over and over again.
