“When you do struggle as a team, it turns into something bigger,” Walton said. “And because of that, then guys start thinking about it, and the fans, they overreact on a missed free throw. Not overreact in the sense of everyone knows how important they are, but overreact as in the whole building sighs on a missed free throw, you know what I mean? So all of a sudden the psyche part of it kicks in even more.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times