I played basketball in high school and shot a team high 95% from the line. It’s all about coaching and practice. I wanted to be the best, so I practiced in my free time constantly. I went on to coach a little and had my guys practicing more free throws than most teams and we shot better. It’s so dang easy it’s borderline negligence on this coaching staff and most others. It’s not surprising we can’t shoot from the field if we can’t shoot a FREE throw.not one player at an acceptable free throw shooting average of 75%. NOT A SINGLE PLAYER.
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one is actually Minnesota who we beat early in the seasonThat’s an amazing stat…….. there are 8 teams worse than MSU? An absolutely breathtaking number.
what conference are they in? Do they make teams in that conference turn around and lob the ball over their heads in free throw situations?
Correct. We might be the absolute worst in the countryThe stats haven’t updated since Jan. 10, so after our performance last night we may actually be even closer to rock bottom.
Correct. We might be the absolute worst in the country
You have to practice it in pressure competitive situations in practice. Like it is in a game. When you're tired and you go from running to standing and everyone watching you.What’s surprising to me is that the announcers mentioned several times that Jans told them that we practice FT’s “all he time” and shoot them well in practice. It’s just not transferring to the games.
is it nerves, confidence,…?
No lie. Let's go wild when any free throw is made and share it across Twitter like it's better than a dunk or 3It's hard to be a tic tok influencer, look-at-me celebrator, hold-that-pose warrior, while shooting free throws. Maybe we should encourage our social media people to create some gangster tik tok videos that make successful free throw shooting appear to be the in thing.
Heck yeah that’s how I looked in junior high football with my buddy helmet! I tried really hard to play basketball because I sucked at football
I think it goes deeper than that. I think at this point when you combine free throws, and lay-up misses, then combine them with our terrible perimeter shooting, it comes down to the simple fact that they have no confidence in themselves. I don't know what it's going to take to fix this, and I'm not sure you can. It will take the proverbial flip of the switch for the entire team to catch fire. Otherwise we're going to struggle the rest of the season.At this point I think the whole team has the yips, because I don't believe that an entire team of D-1 basketball players are actually this bad at shooting FTs. But I'm not sure how they can get past it...someone needs to teach them to not think about it so much and loosen up, like Rube Baker in Major League 2.
We are 349 now out of 352 teams. Less than 60% from the line as a team.I know we were 342 before Georgia. Given our 7 of 22 shooting in the game last night I'm expecting us to move further down. I don't think I've ever seen a team that will likely end up missing the big dance strictly off free throw shooting but that will likely be us this year. Last night we lost by 8 and were outscored by 18 off the free throw line. We shot 31% and GA shot 81%,