My fear is that our struggles at the line will come back to haunt us when it matters!!!!
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Well heres the last ten years ft % rankings
'16 211th after two games
'15 141
'14 343
'13 225
'12 215
'11 236
'10 282
'09 15 (wth)
'08 12 (WTF!)
'07 111
'07 119
And it gets worse. The diff between 200th and 100th is each year the diff between 60 and 70% roughly. Now we avg around 35 ft attempts/gm. Which is always among the leaders. If we were to improve from the 200's to JUST THE TOP 100 we would avg 3-5 more pts/gm! How many freaking games the last 5 yrs have we lost by less than 5!
'16 211th after two games
'15 141
'14 343
'13 225
'12 215
'11 236
'10 282
'09 15 (wth)
'08 12 (WTF!)
'07 111
'07 119
And it gets worse. The diff between 200th and 100th is each year the diff between 60 and 70% roughly. Now we avg around 35 ft attempts/gm. Which is always among the leaders. If we were to improve from the 200's to JUST THE TOP 100 we would avg 3-5 more pts/gm! How many freaking games the last 5 yrs have we lost by less than 5!
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08 and 09 are largely due to Tyler Hansbrough. In 08 he made 304 FT's shooting at 80% clip. In 09, he made 249 at a 84% clip. Also you can't discount that Lawson, Ellington, and Green were 75%+ FT shooters.
Maybe when Hansbrough has a day off he can drive down from Charlotte and show the team how to shoot free throws.
Marcus is in the top 2 for career FT%. Britt is in the Top 10. Let them teach the others I'd nothing else.
It's still early in the season with a poor sample size. After 4-5 games we'll have a better idea.
That said, there are 3 players dragging the whole average down, one of them being Justin Jackson with 20%!!!! I'd be very surprised if he finished the season on that average.
Kennedy is on 58% (7/12) and that's a decent sample (though still one which could improve with one good game)
Theo is 63% (7/11) and that again could/should improve with more attempts
Also, Joel James is 0% (0/3) again, too small a sample, but enough to skew the team stats this early in the season.
The highlight has been Brice (12/16) because it's a large enough sample and still 75%
So maybe we should review again at the end of November and then again after Marcus gets a few games under his belt.
That said, there are 3 players dragging the whole average down, one of them being Justin Jackson with 20%!!!! I'd be very surprised if he finished the season on that average.
Kennedy is on 58% (7/12) and that's a decent sample (though still one which could improve with one good game)
Theo is 63% (7/11) and that again could/should improve with more attempts
Also, Joel James is 0% (0/3) again, too small a sample, but enough to skew the team stats this early in the season.
The highlight has been Brice (12/16) because it's a large enough sample and still 75%
So maybe we should review again at the end of November and then again after Marcus gets a few games under his belt.
Marcus will get some, but the front court (including JJ) will get the lion's share. I must concede that Brice surprised me with his play at the line on Sunday.
Great statistics but we missed 14 FT's against Fairfield…..that will cost us some games this year against better teams……I hope it doesn't happen when it really counts!!!
This is my principal worry about this year. FTs are a combination of practice, form, AND confidence. I worry about the confidence factor since it can snowball as the misses pile up. JJames is especially effected by this! I am optimistic that JJackson will be fine and MP will stabilize our percentage, but our bigs (outside of Brice) need to see some success.
I blame the staff. Roy has mentioned in the past that he doesn't put much emphasis on FT shooting in practice and says they have to want to get better at it. I agree that they have to want to but also with 17-19 year old's sometimes you have to make them work on certain things. If Roy has that mindset of not putting much emphasis on FT shooting how is the teams mindset going to change. This has been discussed much in the last few years with the numbers only getting worse. I'm not concerned about Paige, I'm more concerned with the bigs since they likely will draw the most fouls. Imagine been able to chip in 20-25 more pts per game with just free throws. We would average 100-105 pts per game.
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I think you've misconstrued what Roy said. Missed FT's cost him a title against Syracuse. He knows their value.
I think you've misconstrued what Roy said. Missed FT's cost him a title against Syracuse. He knows their value.
The FT approach really needs to be changed. Too poor for too long, barring the '08 and '09 teams that were better for the reasons listed above. There is simply no acceptable reason to miss a high percentage of uncontested shots.
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