Aleksej Pokusevski Took His First Free-Throws Over 300 Minutes Into His Career
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Aleksej Pokusevski hasn't made much of an impact for the Minnesota Timberwolves during his rookie season, which is fine because he was always known to be a work in progress. The 19-year-old Serbian has played in 18 games and averaged 18.1 minutes after being selected with the 17th pick in the last draft. Despite sending 7-feet in height, 62-of-his-104 field-goal attempts have come from behind the arc. Despite shooting so frequently from deep, he's converting a disastrous 19 percent on three-point attempts.
As a result, getting to the free-throw line has proved difficult thus far. Actually, it'd proven impossible until Thursday night. Pokusevski entered the game having played 295 minutes without taking a single free-throw attempt. Quite a streak — pointed out by Tom Haberstroh this morning after Pokusevski did the impossible and shot