The Los Angeles Clippers finished with the second-worst free-throw shooting percentage in the NBA last season, thanks in large part to the persistent charity-stripe struggles of their forwards and centers. None of the Clippers' top four big men from 2011-12 — Blake Griffin (who you might remember airballing a pair of freebies against the Atlanta Hawks just before St. Patrick's Day), DeAndre Jordan, Kenyon Martin and Reggie Evans — connected at a rate better than 52.5 percent on the season, which frequently made them late-game liabilities and kept the Clips' average tethered to the bottom of the league's rankings. Evans and Martin are gone this year, but in the interest of improving the strokes of ascendant stars Griffin and Jordan, the Clippers hired shooting coach Bob Thate this offseason to work with them on their form and accuracy. In practice, Jordan's lefty motion looked good ( especially, it seems , to teammate Caron Butler). But what about in live action, like when the Clippers squared off with the defending champion Miami Heat in a preseason game in Beijing as part of a tour of China? Welp: Awwwwwww, beans. This is where we remind you that Jordan really has...