does having brains make someone better at shooting bball?

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i was shooting around with a friend the other day at my local park when, during a game of horse, questioned how one's intelligence relates to a game of basketball (not so much on skills one learns through practice of the sport, i.e. dribbling/passing etc, but more along the lines of shooting [your first opportunity, having accumulated no experience]). I've tested fairly high on several IQ tests (ranging from 120-130) and seem to be a better than average shooter, even though i've never actually put effort into the sport or played on a team (during P.E. in high school i sort of resented participating in any sport)... I'm even able to make half-court shots although it's seldom... more along the lines of making continuous free throws one after the other along with usually 75% of my three pointers a success. Anyway, do you think there might exist a correlation between intelligence and basketball shot estimation?

Well if you postulate the theorum with the sum of the equations f over c equals q to the forth and...

funny, but useless

I doubt it. Doing a visual distance calculation and then calculating how to move one's muscles to cross that distance is something that lots of animals do. I've seen squirrels and cats screw it up and miss a branch or tabletop and have to shoot out a paw to catch it. You can see that miscalculation when they make it. But the fact that they screw it up only now and then means they are making that calculation every time they jump across space to land somewhere and they usually do just fine. Same with dogs, horses, really any animal that has to gauge just how to move their muscles to get across a specific distance. So it can't take that much conscious brainpower. Or maybe they are a lot smarter than they are given credit for.

It's the muscle memory of the player that makes him a pro at Basketball.

I'm apparently very intelligent.
I'm also very, very uncoordinated.
In my case, intelligence does not cause skills in any sport.

brains!=athleticism

With that said, I suck at any sport that involves good eye-hand coordination but given enough practice I can be decent at it since I don't have the fine motor skill inpairment some aspies do. If I played on better teams that actually encouraged me to play better, I would have been pretty good at soccer as a midfielder.

Then again, I'm good at things that involve hands-on activity but as far as sports go I do better at individual sports.

Not at all. Lots of dumb people in the NBA. Probably better visual motor control pathways and developing reflexive actions by repitition. Shooting I don't think has much to do with cognition. In my experience, if I start to think about it I am sure to miss it, which I do more times than not anyhow.

Of course by brains you mean high intelligence because if you had no brain you would be dead.

No...high intelligence has nothing to do with playing good basketball. It's all hand/eye co-ordination, movement skill, and practice, practice practice...in my opinion.