freethrow shooting

[ntexascardfan]

How can such talented athletes suck at making freethrows?

I was 90% in high school and I sucked balls.

 

[Tama_Horn]

They are ******* terrible. This will hurt them down the stretch as it has tonight.

 

[Bevo-Stevo]

Inexcuseable for a Div. 1 team, one ranked #1 in the nation, to shoot FT's this poorly. My youth league Golden Eagles team shot better free throws than these guys. Terrible. And, if it does not get corrected, it will spell missing a chance at something really special down the road.

 

[cash76123]

can we not teach our players how to make a f'n freethrow. This will continue to be the bane of this team.

 

[ut1969]

This will be our third year in a row to shoot less than 70% from the free throw line. Something needs to be done.

 

[Horn69]

Mark Cuban let Don Nelson hire a ft coach. We need to find that guy.

Hook'em!!!

 

[Chest Rockwell]

You should be able to go pull 5 guys out of Gregory Gym that can hit 50%+ and we shot 41% tonight. Inexcusable.

 

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[warrior]

For all the older people out there, there is No Jim Krivacs on this team. He hit 91 percent of his free throws for Texas back in late 70's. He seldom missed a free throw. Seems hitting free throws is becoming a problem nationwide? Even in the NBA several guys struggle to hit a free throw. I would make them shoot them until their arms fall off.

 

[Barton Hills]

Are starters shoot a collective 54% from the stripe ... Good Lord.

 

[Mobyhorn]

Krivacs was a hoosier. Unthinkable that they could miss free throws.

 

[topwater]

anyone know where krivacs is now. great guy, had a few classes with him. if the 3 pointer had been in back then...............

 

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[Horns11]

I have to admit that I'm in minority on this one. By the time a guy gets to college, it's tough to tweak something you've been doing all your life. I'd devote that sort of practice time to actual play calling and hitting those easy passes that could have resulted in baskets instead of free throws.

For every link someone posts to show how Ray Allen improved his shooting percentage, there's probably 30 other NBA players who still have the same shot and FT percentage as high school.

 

[UT1986]

I think all the starters need to have J'Covan Brown show them how to do it!

I'm sure he will be just like 'ole AJ was when his time in Austin is done. He seems relaxed and always has the same consistent shooting motion.

 

[Texas Taps]

Great free throw shooters are recruited, not coached. No amount of practice is going to change this team into one that's great at the stripe

 

[general35]

No amount of practice is going to change this team into one that's great at the stripe
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That's simply not true. free throw shooting is one thing that can be coached. i went from a 50% ft shooter to 75% in games by just changing a few things.

 

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[ShatyUT]

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[ShatyUT]

HA! Yeah. I should do that.

I guess there's also the possibility that the players don't give a **** about FT shooting either so they aren't trying to hard.

I don't honestly think the coaches ignore the importance of free throws. I can imagine that maybe they don't monitor FT shooting practice as closely (although, of course, I have no idea about this) and if the players don't care much then they aren't practicing it very well.

If you couldn't improve FT shooting, then there wouldn't be any point in practicing it and I think you'd be pretty dense to think they never practice FTs at all.

 

[Texas Taps]

By the time they get to college, highly recruited basketball players that shoot free throws poorly are born, and can't be coached up to be good shooters.

This from Bohl's in today's chat:

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[ShatyUT]

Kirk Bohls is well-respected. I would definitely listen to what he says.

I hope they aren't wasting any time shooting free throws in practice then since you can't ever get better.

 

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[Horns11]

Or we could just stop turning the ball over against lazy man defenses and not have to worry about free throws. This is what happens when two freshman and an offensive non-threat are your primary ball handlers.

 

[starchild]

at this point i'd try a shrink, a hypnotist or a priest.

 

[Bevo's Buddy]

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