DeAndre Jordan, now of the Brooklyn Nets, has admitted that ignoring the crowd's jeering helped him become a better free-throw shooter.

Jordan, a career 46.6 percent free-throw line shooter, noted how the Hack-a-Shaq strategy affected his game. He recalled how he was a target of opposing teams who are looking to intentionally foul to stop the clock. Later on, however, Jordan improved on his free throw shooting. As transcribed by Brian Lewis of the New York Post:

“For me, Hack-a-Shaq sucked a lot,” said Jordan on the Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take podcast. “It sucked big time. I used to go hide [from opponents looking to foul]. [I thought] I don’t like this. But after years of that, I got a little better at it this past season and I’m shooting the ball a little bit better.

Last season, he shot a career-high 70.5 percent from the free-throw line. A major improvement from his horrendous 58 percent charity stripe clip the season before. He explained that he can hit his free throws in practice but once it's game time, the pressure from the fans in the arena led to him missing.

“I hit a lot of them in practice,” he went on. “I think it’s the 20,000 people [that affected me]. This season I actually didn’t think about anything other than shooting the basketball and it helped me out a lot.”

Without a doubt, Jordan's improved shooting will help him out in his new journey with the Nets. This will be key as he'll likely be the recipient of many alley-oop passes from either Kevin Durant or Kyrie Irving.