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[Clutch0364]

they might shoot them every day but how many and how important do the coaches make free throws to the players. Obviously they don't stress it enough and free throws are made from habbit. the more you shoot em the more you make em. Milsap is shooting 50% from the line if that. Thats ben wallace and shaq #'s.

Milsap is shooting 50% which is good considering he started off shooting about 16%. He has been improving but Saturday was a regression for everyone. The whole game me and my friends were commenting about the bad shooting

[Cajunsmike]

they might shoot them every day but how many and how important do the coaches make free throws to the players. Obviously they don't stress it enough and free throws are made from habbit. the more you shoot em the more you make em. Milsap is shooting 50% from the line if that. Thats ben wallace and shaq #'s.

This team practices free throws a lot. Problem is trying to simulate the pressure of a game in practice. Kids missed free throws because they struggled with the pressure. As far as Milsap is concerned, he was shooting 10% after the first few games. He has improved greatly. No doubt, the free throw shooting cost us the last few games. The poor results were not because of a lack of practice though.

[ronnied]

I know we are supposed to be in a rebuilding year, but I am still very disappointed in our season. When was the last time we had a season with less than 10 wins? I tried to find information on the internet on season records for the past twenty years and could not find anything. Can anyone help me with a link?

[Kal]

If you think that was bad... ever heard of Shaq?

The reason shaq's teams still win games is because the team isn't made up of all shaqs. I could've sworn I was watching five shaqs at the free throw line on Saturday.

[CAJUNryan4]

I know we are supposed to be in a rebuilding year, but I am still very disappointed in our season. When was the last time we had a season with less than 10 wins? I tried to find information on the internet on season records for the past twenty years and could not find anything. Can anyone help me with a link?

The last time we had less than 10 wins was in the 1994-95 season. We were 7-22 and 4-14 in conference under Marty. We only beat Texas Wesleyan, LA college, LaTech, Jacksonville, Arkansas State, and Lamar twice. This years team has played in many more closer games than the 94-95 team. From what I hear they were a lot of freshmen like this year. It was also the year after people like Byron Starks and Michael Allen graduated. Don't worry this year's team isn't the worst team ever and IMO they are getting better every game.

GEAUX Cajuns
Ryan

[Turbine]

I tried to find information on the internet on season records for the past twenty years and could not find anything. Can anyone help me with a link?

I never got around to entering data for each year, but if you follow this "LINK" and pass your mouse over the year it tells you the record.

[Boomer]

After watching my daughter play from age 8 to 22, I go along with BOP in his opinion---Good shooters are good free throw shooters--Just like shooters will have better nights, the same goes for free throws, but the best percentages are the same as the shooting percentage for the most part!!! I hope that coach makes them shoot at all stages of practice (early, after 5-10 minutes of scrimmage close to 20 minutes etc.)

[Tripple Threat]

Repetition, repetition, repetition, technique, and follow through...I can teach anyone to shoot a freethrow. The pressure of the game throws in a new wrinkle. Confidence in a players own abilities goes to _____ as much as these guys have lost...every freethrow is a knife in the opponents heart. You have to want to drive that shot in and make it painful for whoever you're playing. I'm getting shivers just thinking about it. I love me some BBall...

[Turbine]

I don’t know the answers so any suggestion I make is just thinking out loud . . .

I do believe that pressure is a factor late in the game but a minor factor for the bulk of the game.

Shooting 50, 100, 200, 1000 free throws in a row in practice will not help shooting during a game and it’s not because of pressure. In my opinion free throw shooting is difficult because of constant variations in a player’s stamina and various fazes of fatigue.

Standing and shooting in practice for 50 attempts allows you to start compensating for fatigue. In a game, they don't give you 50 chances at the free throw line, they give you 1, 2 sometimes 3 shots.

I do think repetition in practice is key but perhaps the reps should come 2 shots at a time after running back and forth down the court and lifting weights while they run.

jmo

[Zeebart21]

The last time we had less than 10 wins was in the 1994-95 season. We were 7-22 and 4-14 in conference under Marty. We only beat Texas Wesleyan, LA college, LaTech, Jacksonville, Arkansas State, and Lamar twice. This years team has played in many more closer games than the 94-95 team. From what I hear they were a lot of freshmen like this year. It was also the year after people like Byron Starks and Michael Allen graduated. Don't worry this year's team isn't the worst team ever and IMO they are getting better every game.

GEAUX Cajuns
Ryan

Ryan we have 7-8 losses by less than 4 pts. We were in every SBC game except munrow and MT till the end. Moral victories? Maybe. There were times when we had 3 true freshmen on the court at once. I really see us improving by leaps and bounds next year. NCAA appearance? NO. Finishing above .500? YES...

Z.

[Just1More]

I don’t know the answers so any suggestion I make is just thinking out loud . . .

I do believe that pressure is a factor late in the game but a minor factor for the bulk of the game.

Shooting 50, 100, 200, 1000 free throws in a row in practice will not help shooting during a game and it’s not because of pressure. In my opinion free throw shooting is difficult because of constant variations in a player’s stamina and various fazes of fatigue.

Standing and shooting in practice for 50 attempts allows you to start compensating for fatigue. In a game, they don't give you 50 chances at the free throw line, they give you 1, 2 sometimes 3 shots.

I do think repetition in practice is key but perhaps the reps should come 2 shots at a time after running back and forth down the court and lifting weights while they run.

jmo

I am not sure about the pressure factor in our current free throw shooting situation. That pressure and fatigue is there for all teams, and I have watched schools in the top ten, in pressure packed games, make 80% or better for the game, game in and game out.

I believe that this squad of guys are marginal shooters all over the floor, including the stripe. Not having a clutch shooting guard hurts all over the place, including free throws. I'll grant some big men just never get the free throw motion, and all that stuff about their hands being too big and so on.

Now, about teaching good free throw shooting... it is not just repetition. Just like a putter in golf, the most successful guys will tell you it is the drill that creates a specific mindset. You have to have a routine that sets the correct mental attitude and then let the repetitive motion take over. When good shooters start having problems missing free throws, a good coach does not just have them sit at the line and hit 100 free throws. He makes them systematically go threw a routine. It is the routine, with practice, that removes pressure and makes the repetitive motion take over.

[CajunAmos]

I've watched a number of practices all year, and they practice shooting free throws at different times during practice, and finish practice shooting free throws. Some of the guys will never be 60% free throw shooters, but a number shoot a very high percentage all during practice. It seems when guys miss during games, its usually the first free throw. They seem to bend legs better with a more fluid motion on the second free throw. I guess the problem lies in one & one situations, which we've missed a number of during the season.