Free Thows...

[512taylor]

Atrocious!

 

[SoulCatcher]

I wish the men's team could shoot free throws like the women ...

Lady Dawgs won by 40 - 103-63. Shot 91% from FT line 21-23. Big T dominated...31 Pts 15 Reb in only 26 minutes of play.

 

[SoulCatcher]

Semi-unrelated....

It's hard to see why Lady Dawgs are ranked 5th. Louisville only beat a winless Air Force by 12. Notre Dame won by 6 vs a 6-4 Marquette. Oh well...

 

[LilSebastian]

Free Thows? What did he do?

Nm

 

[mstateglfr]

They have shot 70.1% from the line on the year.

Not incredible, but not terrible.

 

[dannyripms]

It has to be a confidence thing right? I mean its like a pitcher or kicker who misses a few and it gets in their head. Lamar Peters was going off in the summer and now he can't buy a bucket. They need to be faster at cuts and passing the ball around to find those open shots and we need to start knocking them down.

 

[coach66]

It's a practice thing too. Do it enough with proper technique and it gets

easier.

 

[dickiedawg]

The ranking will take care of itself. We take care of business, we'll be top 4 in the only ranking that matters.

 

[EurekaDog]

After practice, the obligatory running of laps, ladder drillls,etc. my HS coach

would line us up on the end line... and would call out a name. That guy would have to go to the line for a 1 and 1. If he missed the first FT, we had to run two sprints, make the first and miss the 2nd, we ran 1 sprint.
Then another name was called...
With a team of 13 players, it could be rough after 7 or 8 guys had gone to the line.
What it did, was to teach us how to shoot FTs when we were very tired and our arms felt like logs.

I don't know why bad FT shooters won't take a jump shot rather than standing flat-footed at the FT line.