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In addition the NBA training argument is useless as those players shoot FT at decent level and train to maintain their skill, you will never find a player that went from 30% FT to 80% during his career.

You'd also never find a team in the NBA deliberately losing their last game(s) to finish one spot outside of the playoffs for some financial benefit. ;)

It's really pretty straightforward: if you don't want your guys to make 3pt shots, you don't train jump range. If you don't want them to turn the ball over every time they touch it, you improve their handling / passing. If you don't want them to shoot abysmally poor from the line, you train FT.

Now, of course, 0.00% on a thousand attempts, yes, is absurd. But if they elevate everyone to, say, 35% minimum, then everyone who has invested their time and training into fixing the problems with their guys have suddenly seen the value of that training decrease dramatically, all in order to solve a non-problem.

Take, for example, Andrea Bargnani.

Everyone can find an exception to the rule. Apparently, not everyone knows what a correlation coefficient is.

Tangosz compared two data sets, FG% and FT%. When he did this, he found the correlation coefficient to be .038. This means that FG% and FT% are not dependent upon each other in the least.

Arguments that require the use of bold font and CAPS are usually flawed......

I think it's clear that big guys (playing in the paint, not shooting jumpers neither 3s) are bad FT-shooters, while PG/SG are good FT-shooters.

So, your conclusion is: in real basketball PF/C do not train FT.

The alternative is: everybody trains FT during training sessions, but PG/SG can do better because shooting jumpers helps with that.

Sorry, I prefer the alternative.

Actually Bargnani is an exception just because he's the only C who can shoot like a SF

Arguments that require the use of bold font and CAPS are usually flawed......

haha, I liked that :D +1ball

but still there are great jump shooters in the NBA that are actually not so great free throwers, there were posted in this very thread.

The training methodology in the game is different from the real one, and it will never reach it. Here people can choose to train one thing (which might also have an effect on other skills, though), while the real players can and will throw some extra free throws during the day. The few players that have very little percentages in this game are the extreme visualizations of this difference. That they are so few should actually be a good sign.

I can accept there are some individual strengths and weaknesses when it comes to shooting free throws. But a correlation between jump shots and free throws can't be proven statistically. This would only be possible with players that do not train FT at all, which don't exist. And there are other factors important when it come to free throws: a different throwing approach, the nerves...

Of course percentages of less than 30% are unrealistic, but only when you think of players actually training it. In my point of view, the skill free throws should be more designed like stamina. If you dont train it, you'll become worse. Maybe there should be a training option "basics" which trains stamina, free throws at the same time then.

for those who believe 3pt shoot ==> good ft shooter

Bruce Bown had a .441 3tp% and .404 ft% in 02-03

I think it's clear that big guys (playing in the paint, not shooting jumpers neither 3s) are bad FT-shooters, while PG/SG are good FT-shooters.

So, your conclusion is: in real basketball PF/C do not train FT.

The alternative is: everybody trains FT during training sessions, but PG/SG can do better because shooting jumpers helps with that.

Sorry, I prefer the alternative.

or a conclusion could be that it is hight related, because the bigger you get you are often not so precise with your movement.

And free thorws are often muscle memory, it is an shot most professionals could make blind at a decent rate(not so good when they see)

Keep in mind that players that shoot free throws at practice aren’t necessarily “training” on them. Practice is necessary just to maintain skill levels. (At my age, believe me, I know. I am a shadow of my former self. Sigh.) Training really means focusing on the skill to improve it.

now that`s true, but these are the pitfalls of language for non native speakers just like me.

but anyways, there is no opportunity of practice in BB, is there?

and just to avoid being misunderstood: I am not one of the revolutionaries on this thread, I'm actually quite content with the actual state. And I love the new things coming up in cross training, I'm sure it will drive Jozef Ka crazy....^^

Last edited by Northern Warlord at 7/7/2011 11:03:51 AM

I think the general assumption that practice just happens. It's a normal thing for teams to have practices when they're not playing games. It's sort of like breathing. But it's not the same thing as a focused training.

Here's where I could go on about how skills should naturally increase, especially with younger players, due to the natural improvement that come about from general practice, but I won't. I don't know if Experience grows just by virtue of a player getting older and being on a team. If so, perhaps this natural improvement could be seen in Experience growth. If not, then perhaps this adjustment should be made, too. I'm such a revolutionary.

But enough of this, back to free throws.