Why doesn't Buzz get someone to teach these guys 5o shoot FTs? Their form/mechanics are awful.

Phelps goes 0/2?!

Yikes

Was told it doesn't matter that much.

We don't shoot anything well. It is what it is at this point.

Method Man said:

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Was told it doesn't matter that much.

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To be fair you were complaining after one bad game.

Commanders had both these teams outscored at half

We know how to shoot them, it's the making them that's seeming to give us some issues. Nice to see 4 making a difference though. He's been the only bright spot at the line tonight (maybe all season)

8 of 19 from the line. Wade makes all of his 4 attempts. There is no way this is something the team puts any focus on during down time. Have never seen it worse

If they want to go deep into the tournament, they'll have to shoot better than 70% at the charity stripe (while still relying on out-rebounding opponents and causing turnovers).

Bad 3 point shooting
Bad free throw shooting

Maybe 1 or 2 wins in the tournament

I said it in the other thread. FTs by guys not named Wade Taylor? 4-15. 27%.

slatermikan said:

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It would be interesting to know what their free throw practice routine is. For many college teams the standard would be 100 shots at the end of each day,..

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They have to make 100 FTs after practice

slatermikan said:

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It would be interesting to know what their free throw practice routine is. For many college teams the standard would be 100 shots at the end of each day, with student managers recording the numbers. Unfortunately, this is similar to hitting at the driving range--you get set up and stay there. Doing this, I had several streaks of over 200 in a row when playing.
John Wooden was one of the first coaches to adjust team
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Are you saying multiple times you hit over 200 straight in game action? Or just saying standing at the FT line after practice

Buzz needs to make them shoot underhanded like Will Chamberlain. That should embarrass them enough to work on improving their free throw percentage.

SA-AG72 said:

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Buzz needs to make them shoot underhanded like Will Chamberlain. That should embarrass them enough to work on improving their free throw percentage.

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You mean Rick Barry

fatdad84ag said:

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SA-AG72 said:

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Buzz needs to make them shoot underhanded like Will Chamberlain. That should embarrass them enough to work on improving their free throw percentage.

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You mean Rick Barry

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Google Wilt shooting free throws. Rick made them, Wilt didn't lol

slatermikan said:

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It would be interesting to know what their free throw practice routine is. For many college teams the standard would be 100 shots at the end of each day, with student managers recording the numbers. Unfortunately, this is similar to hitting at the driving range--you get set up and stay there. Doing this, I had several streaks of over 200 in a row when playing.
John Wooden was one of the first coaches to adjust team free throw practice to better simulate game situations. After two shots, he had players sprint to the opposite end to reset and shoot again. Now,they had to reset the feet and shoot while winded/fatigued. Not sure why everyone doesn't do at least some this way..

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We know what it is. In an interview last season Buzz proudly proclaimed our kids shot 200 free throws a
week.

Great free throw shooters shoot that in a day.

Someone needs to find a free throw shooting for dummies book and put it on Buzz's desk. Maybe he'd read it and get a ****ing clue.

Or find the YouTube video of the nba's best free throw shooters taking 500 a day and forwarding those with the hope Buzz does some math.

Or I could mention my boss is a big ass donor at a fellow conference school that is above us by about ten points in the FT shooting standings and knows they take 250 FTs per day per kid. If they don't they don't get their NIL allowance for the week.

R-Dog said:

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It seems pretty obvious that we are in our own heads now. And with each miss, we put even more pressure on ourselves.

Maybe winning a game with horrific FT shooting like tonight helps us to relax some. I don't know what else to say to do.

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I was talking to my brother about this. He said they should practice throwing it hard at the backboard and banking it in.

What's stopping the players from shooting more on their own time? You think NBA coaches are making players shoot 100s each day or they do it because they want to get better?

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slatermikan said:

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It would be interesting to know what their free throw practice routine is. For many college teams the standard would be 100 shots at the end of each day, with student managers recording the numbers. Unfortunately, this is similar to hitting at the driving range--you get set up and stay there. Doing this, I had several streaks of over 200 in a row when playing.
John Wooden was one of the first coaches to adjust team
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Are you saying multiple times you hit over 200 straight in game action? Or just saying standing at the FT line after practice

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Neither. Cause it didn't happen.

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Of course not game action, but yes, solo practice I had multiple streaks of 100 and a couple of times over 200. Most college level players who were good shooters can say the same. Game streak? Maybe 27. This is why practicing in game situations----fatigue, different rhythm, even different pace on receiving the ball from an official can change that.

People act like things can just change over night. It's not that easy to learn to make free throws consistently. Go show examples of coaches who routinely have multiple players improving FT % across their collegiate career.

Want to make a higher percentage of free throws, all you have to do is recruit high FT% shooting players.

You have to assume that all of these players know correct form for free-throw shooting. Is this, perhaps, a case of the "yips", like a second baseman who suddenly can't throw the ball to first base?

We couldn't leave practice until we made 10
FT's in a row. With our roster, they'd be shooting for 3 days straight.

This was during my playing days at D3 powerhouse Hendrix College.

Lol at all the FT experts in this thread.

I'm sure the guys practice a ton, in fact after what happened against Alabama, I bet they all practiced even more. What none of the "experts" in here seem to account for is that sitting in an empty gym stroking FTs is something entirely different than stepping to the line in front of 10K fans, while you are gassed from running up and down the court. It's even worse when you've missed a couple and now you start telling yourself to make the next one. FTs are a serious case study in sports psychology and no amount of coaching can get a guy to turn his brain off, it's just pure human nature when you are standing there all alone at the line to try and think the ball into the net.

I was a fantastic shooter when I played, I could hit 40-50 straight in an empty gym, but in games, I was never better than 70% from the line because there are other factors at play, some I could control, some I couldn't.

Of all the threads on this board the "why don't we practice FTs" threads are the silliest of them all. We clearly practice them, the guys probably all shoot 80-90% in practice and there isn't much more Buzz can do here. Especially because the factors affecting each guy's ability to make a FT are dependent on the situation

-Did he just check in the game and he's cold/not warmed up
-Is he gassed and now heading to the line
-Did he just miss a FT and now has to clear his mind and shoot another one
-Has he been cold from the line for games now
-Is it a close game and these FTs are key
-Is he shooting 3-13 from the field, and confidence is low already
-DOES he want to be at the line
-Was he just fouled hard in the face/hand/nuts and now has to shoot a FT
-Did one of the opposing players just crop dust the line (this happened to me once, I missed the FT)
-Did he just miss left... should he adjust right or trust his form

If Buzz wanted to create the conditions to practice all of these things for all of the guys in our rotation, our entire practices would have to be devoted to FTs.

How does a team go from shooting 70% or more through 15 or so games to what we've seen the last few games?