11/16 @ ulm

[techman05]

It takes muscle memory and establish good mechanics. Basically, spending time taking a sh*t tons of shots away from games/practice.

Exactly, so do the players not take the initiative to shoot extra or does the coach not make them shoot enough? Is it both?

[sportdawg]

I still don’t understand struggling to shoot 75+% on free throws. I’d like to know the national average for college FT shooting.

Old article, but 69% Basketball Shooting Percentages and Statistics (noahbasketball.com)

[qng001]

Exactly, so do the players not take the initiative to shoot extra or does the coach not make them shoot enough? Is it both?

I don't know. I wouldn't look at it as they are lazy or coach isn't pushing them to get better at it.

I know many of these players are doing a lot to build their skillset in other areas going through drills like range shooting, dribbling, footwork, etc. Also add in the time of workouts, practice, and whatever prep work they do. No players are okay by missing free throws.

[inudesu]

I still don’t understand struggling to shoot 75+% on free throws. I’d like to know the national average for college FT shooting.

Old article, but 69% Basketball Shooting Percentages and Statistics (noahbasketball.com)

I found a similar one that had the same number. And that's been true for a loooooooong time (or at least it had been at that point).

We're only three or so games into this season so the sample sizes are low but you can see this year's team averages here (but it doesn't average those for the whole of Div I for you).


One thing that might help, even if it's counter-intuitive (from the article I found):

There is little correlation between free-throw percentages and winning percentages.

Which you can see in our history. We shot a better FT% last season than in '13-14 (which was a MUCH better season).


Lots of interesting stuff in this article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/s...freethrow.html

[Dawg Fan]

I still don’t understand struggling to shoot 75+% on free throws. I’d like to know the national average for college FT shooting.

I went to the NCAA website and copied all the FT information into a spreadsheet for all 351 D1 schools for games this season thru last night. The D1 average so far this year is 69.7556%. Tech is at #222 out of 351 with a percentage of 67.80%. The average number of attempts per team is 20.499 - Tech is at an average of 19.67 attempts per game.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketbal...rrent/team/150

[techman05]

So, we aren’t far off the average. Does that mean we shouldn’t be upset about our percentage made?

[inudesu]

I went to the NCAA website and copied all the FT information into a spreadsheet for all 351 D1 schools for games this season thru last night. The D1 average so far this year is 69.7556%. Tech is at #222 out of 351 with a percentage of 67.80%. The average number of attempts per team is 20.499 - Tech is at an average of 19.67 attempts per game.

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/basketbal...rrent/team/150

Best I can tell NCAA average has been in that ballpark for like 60 years.

Nice.