SU- Free Throw Shooting- National Rank by Year

[armory]

Since nobody else will do it ...

• 2012 - 238 (this year)
• 2011 - 260
• 2010 - 217
• 2009 - 295
• 2008 - 249
• 2007 - 162
• 2006 - 302
• 2005 - 226
• 2004 - 291
• 2003 - 164
• 2002 - 278
• 2001 - 73
• 2000 - 101
• 1999 - 201
• 1998 - 152

Only twice in the last 14 years have we cracked the top 150.
(having trouble finding a site that goes back any further)

 

[OttoMets]

That was 20+ years ago! For the most part we are usually 65-68% which at the clip we shoot FTs doesnt mean a whole lot pointwise.

? I'm not sure I understand the objection.

 

[BlueCurtain]

Well, I for one don't "know the why." So, Why?

barring some genetic mutation that occurs when players step on campus, the obvious answer is that the coaches do not emphasize ft shooting. JB will only consider this during the final minute of a tight game when we have a close lead, never mind if we had not missed 15 free throws leading up to that point we wouldn't be in that situation.

 

[pfister1]

barring some genetic mutation that occurs when players step on campus, the obvious answer is that the coaches do not emphasize ft shooting. JB will only consider this during the final minute of a tight game when we have a close lead, never mind if we had not missed 15 free throws leading up to that point we wouldn't be in that situation.

More than likely JB has done the calculations on how often our free throw percentage impacts the outcome of our games and has made a determination that in his opinion we have not lost enough games because of our free throw shooting to warrant using more practice time to improve it..... in other words practice time would be better used devoted to other elements of the game.

That doesn't mean that we haven't lost games because of poor free throw shooting, just that improving our percentage by 5 or 10% doesn't guarantee that the guy who missed the critical free throw(s) leading to the loss would have hit them even if he were shooting a better percentage.

 

[Eric]

my girlfriend does not like sports but she has mentioned a couple of times she is amazed at how often she glances at the TV and another player is missing a free throw. not just SU but in basketball in general. i guess it is what it is though. i know some of the big guys hands interfere with the physics and of course focus, fatigue, and the "difficulty" and lack of margin of error of the shot makes it what it is. some things in sports though you would think with the amount of expert hours put in the standard would be slightly higher such as with FT shooting..

 

[AZOrange]

? I'm not sure I understand the objection.

just seems like an anomaly from long ago.

 

[Smithers-Jones]

I think there is an inverse correlation between FT shooting ability and athleticism that explains a lot of our rankings.

 

[AZOrange]

I think there is an inverse correlation between FT shooting ability and athleticism that explains a lot of our rankings.

I dont know if you can prove that, but anecdotally I completely agree.

 

[Eric]

I want each individual on the team to keep something in mind at the stripe this year. You need to practice the law of attraction at the stripe during your nightly visualizations about your game. Take a few minutes even in your meditations. Think about how the game is chaotic and then you must slow everything down at the stripe. Relax. Are you happy with your stroke? Visualize us being at LEAST top 100 in FT shooting this year. Lets try and score 100!

 

[tbonezone]

we need some major commando/seal team help at the line.screw the repetition and muscle memory BS.
the best military snipers will tell you the key is breath and heartbeat control.and this is why i don't like the "freeze"strategy.The heartbeat is and autonomic muscle, meaning you can't really control it, the nerves control it. But you can control your body to relax enough for your heartbeat to slow it down with yoga and other relaxing techniques. Same with breathing, it takes a lot of practice to breath calmly while paying attention to your heartbeat. The point of this exercise being that your optimal time to fire would be at the bottom of your breath, between heartbeats, because that is when your body has the least amount of movement.we'll discuss figure 8 aiming and newtonian trajectory next class. swish!

 

[44cuse]

my girlfriend does not like sports but she has mentioned a couple of times she is amazed at how often she glances at the TV and another player is missing a free throw. not just SU but in basketball in general. i guess it is what it is though. i know some of the big guys hands interfere with the physics and of course focus, fatigue, and the "difficulty" and lack of margin of error of the shot makes it what it is. some things in sports though you would think with the amount of expert hours put in the standard would be slightly higher such as with FT shooting..

You know what the real problem is? Get another girlfriend. j/k

44cuse

 

[OttoMets]

just seems like an anomaly from long ago.

61% was bad, but I wouldn't call it anomalous, and it was a good example of a Boeheim-coached team shooting inexplicably poorly from the line and directly costing them wins.

I'm having a lot of difficulty with the athletics department links tonight, but it seems that we've hovered between 64% and 69% in the last decade. (So 1989 certainly falls outside that range.) In this important facet of the game, though, it's difficult to argue that we haven't experienced three decades of mediocrity, and that that's cost us a good number of wins.