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242411.9 in reply to 242411.8
Date: 6/2/2013 7:36:02 PM
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If I was able to pop my average FT% from 75 to 80, that would basically average out to one more point per game, roughly projecting I shoot 20 FT's per contest. Very few of my games are decided by one point. Knowing that it would take a whole lot of training to get my team shooting 80% from the line, and that those same weeks would be much better spent training primary and secondary skills on my trainees, I believe I'm landing squarely on the side of the fence where I'm only going to train FT if my training minutes are seriously messed up in a week and I don't want to train stamina up any higher.

Looking at my team's FT%'s again, my three lowest FT shooters have ratings of Strong, Strong, and Prolific, whereas my three best FT shooters have ratings of Proficient, Proficient, and Prolific. That's a gap of about 25 percentage points with nearly the same ratings. Interesting.

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242411.10 in reply to 242411.9
Date: 6/11/2013 12:45:03 AM
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I just found a guy on the TL who is 0 for 581 in his career on FT:

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/13378434/careerstats.aspx

So, the answer to the question "How bad is atrocious?" can certainly be answered definitively.

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242411.12 in reply to 242411.11
Date: 6/11/2013 11:11:32 AM
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Atrocious has sublevels though so atrocious can give you everywhere from 0-15% or something like that.


I guess we have found the 0% sublevel with that guy then. :P

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242411.14 in reply to 242411.10
Date: 6/11/2013 5:19:02 PM
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I understand its to make people spend time training free throws but ive never understood stats like that . 0for 581 , im pretty sure a baby in a pram would score at least one if given a basketball and allowed to flail away nearly 600 times.

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242411.15 in reply to 242411.13
Date: 6/11/2013 7:13:40 PM
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That is ridiculous!

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242411.16 in reply to 242411.14
Date: 6/11/2013 7:18:50 PM
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The logical solution would be for JS and JR training to also cross train FT's. It's pretty ridiculous to begin with, even funnier when you see that same player shooting decent % on 3-pointers.

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242411.17 in reply to 242411.16
Date: 6/11/2013 8:28:31 PM
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Or the even more logical solution - train FT. Easily one of the simplest problems for anyone to fix and the only reason these odd players exist who can shoot well from 3 but can't hit FT is because they have been trained in a completely unrealistic way.

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242411.18 in reply to 242411.17
Date: 6/11/2013 8:47:23 PM
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Or the even more logical solution - train FT. Easily one of the simplest problems for anyone to fix and the only reason these odd players exist who can shoot well from 3 but can't hit FT is because they have been trained in a completely unrealistic way.


Obviously, I'm only talking about it logically. How does a player train to improve their jump shot and jump range shooting and not improve their FT shooting at the same time? They should be linked if for no other reason than they are linked.

On the flip side a lot of people, especially those with great trainees, just don't want to waste a week training FT's or Stamina just because 1 player on their roster might need it badly. You can train a player for FT's until they're 50 but you've only got a short period to train a player on most other attributes.

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242411.19 in reply to 242411.18
Date: 6/11/2013 9:20:15 PM
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Obviously, I'm only talking about it logically. How does a player train to improve their jump shot and jump range shooting and not improve their FT shooting at the same time? They should be linked if for no other reason than they are linked.

Based on what empirical evidence? Can you name one great FT in the real world who has not spent hours practicing their free throw shooting?

The act of shooting a free throw is actually quite distinct from the act of shooting a jump shot.

That people who are good at one may also be good at the other is just as likely, if not more likely, to be a result of the fact that they have practiced both equally than your claim that the two are linked. Becoming a good FT shooter in BB already takes considerably less practice than it takes to become a good jump shooter.

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