My niece's JV team shot....
- Thread starter bigzit
- Start date
If I was a bad free throw shooter, I'd park my butt at the line and have someone shag my attempts until I made 200 FF's twice a day. Some of these players don't even have any rotation on their release and throwing up junk at the rim.
It's really not about how many you make, but how consistently you make them. I think you could say 'until I make at least 200 a day + 15 in a row'
When Tulsa lost that epic battle against North Carolina to go to the Final Four back in the day, my guess is that bigzit would post that Tulsa sucks never going to be any good. Bill Self is lame, should never hire an OSU guys to coach Tulsa....yada, yada yada....
Dude ease up on the hyperbole.
GO TU!!!!!
Dude ease up on the hyperbole.
GO TU!!!!!
My father played and coached college basketball. I know little about that sport, nor do I care to learn. One thing I did pick up from him coaching my youth teams is that FT% often has more to do with conditioning than anything else. You can put the best shooter on the floor on the line. If he is fatigued, he is going to miss some/a lot. It is also about practice/repetition. With NCAA practice limits, that is on the kids. If they want to play, they need to hit from the line. We can't be choosey on recruiting, but it doesnt mean we can't tell these guys to improve or they are going to sit/not start.
Exactly Huff...shooting is muscle-memory and its definitely a game of practice. Its like anything in life. , if I want to be a good or great piano player or be excellent in math I've got to practice or do lots of math problems. Whenever you see players wanting to come out of a ball game after going down the court hard a few trips they are out of shape.
I think free throw shooting is a combination of two things. ....(1). Good form and follow through is essential for consistency. Just look at a Mark Price video. (2) The other thing it takes is mental confidence. A perfect shooter will miss if pressure bothers them. I remember feeling really bad for Zac when those issues arose to no fault of his own.
Bad form will always be inconsistent as well as nerves. You can recruit good form but need to watch the end of a lot of close high school games to evaluate nerves. Practice helps for sure but practicing a poor form will get inconsistent results in games. There is rarely a case of nerves in practice.
GOLD- Its called "BEEF" Balance (feet spread shoulder width), Eyes (eyes focused on the rim), Elbow ( elbow positioned perpendular under the ball), and Follow Thru (ball releasing on your fingertips leaving your arm extended at the rim).. Make 100 everytime at the line using correct form and you can become an 80 % Free Throw shooter. My son progressed from being a 70 % FT shooter his freshman year in college to 89 % during his senior year. He wanted to be better at the line so he put in the time and work. When his career was over he told me he wished he had put more work in his ballhandling...so even at 22 years old there was always more to work on to become better.
Similar threads
