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Good idea!

Great idea !!

I also think it's a good idea. It's hard to find examples of good shooters who are poor FT shooters (Jason Richardson from last season comes to mind), whereas non-bigs who struggle at the FT line are usually poor jumpshooters as well (Iguodala, Turner, Rondo, etc). In any case, there are two minor tweaks I would suggest:

1) Maybe a slower climb towards the JS level? It's true that good shooting mechanics are a great start, but good FT shooters still need a ton of practice. In you example, I would say the jump to 7 in 2 weeks is reasonable, but maybe after that it should go back to "normal" speed.

2) Wouldn't the training slowdown in cases where the FT skill is higher than the JS be trouble for big men? There are bigs who very very rarely shoot from outside the paint and manage to shoot FTs fairly consistently above 70% (Marc Gasol, Greg Monroe, even Hibbert). So I think that players with JS much higher than FT should get that boost, but inside players with low JS should still be able to pop in FT at the current rate.

Also, since it is rare to have great shooters who are bad FT shooters, why not make FT a secondary for JS?

what about link JS training to FT? like for every JS pop .3 goes into FT? Same would work for JR too.

Thaht's a nice idea and would really fit to reality...

Reality is that good free throw shooters practice free throws.

The main reason there are good jump shooters in BB who are terrible free throw shooters is because so many owners refuse to train free throws except for those 1 or 2 weeks a season where they can't get full training. And typically one of those is used for stamina each season as well. Pretty easy for JS to outstrip FT when one is being trained regularly and the other is not.

The original proposal seems to mostly just be putting a large elastic effect between JS and FT. I think it might be a bit much, but if there isn't already an elastic effect between JS and FT, it certainly makes sense for there to be one.

I agree. This suggestion is a way to make training easier, which I am not a fan of. If free throw shooting is important enough to your team then take a little time to train it. At least you can fire your trainer and save a bunch of money while you train it.