90% Free Throw Shooting Would End Intentional Fouling

[True Lakers Fan]

Just saying - if all of your players were 90% and better as they should be then there wouldn't be intentional fouling to stop players because it would be automatic buckets.

It would atleast end a lot of it

 

[LeaderOCola]

games would go 30 minutes faster

 

[LeaderOCola]

solution has to start in youth ball

by the point of HS, you're running wind sprints an extra hour at practice if you're under 80%.

 

[tlance]

solution has to start in youth ball

by the point of HS, you're running wind sprints an extra hour at practice if you're under 80%.

That will never happen without drastic changes to grassroots basketball in this country. There is too much pressure on young players to participate in dozens of high profile youth events during their off seasons. There simply is not enough time for kids to develop fundamental skills because they spend all their time playing glorified pick-up games at AAU events.

Even big name teaching camps such as 5-star have gone away from an educational model. Back when it was legal, 5-star used to have top college coaches teaching skills to campers in a full week-long session.

Today, the camp coaches are made up of a split between AAU guys who lack fundamental knowlege and coaches from prominent high school programs (often young assistants). Camp only lasts 4.5 days instead of the full week and are full of games that fit around limited teaching sessions by coaches often ill-equipped to teach.

Fundamental skills will continue to get worse unless this grassroots culture changes. Kids need time to work on skills in closed sessions with experienced coaches. Instead, they are flown around the country and pimped out in event after event. Not good for anybody but the leeches making $ off of them.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

That will never happen without drastic changes to grassroots basketball in this country. There is too much pressure on young players to participate in dozens of high profile youth events during their off seasons. There simply is not enough time for kids to develop fundamental skills because they spend all their time playing glorified pick-up games at AAU events.

Even big name teaching camps such as 5-star have gone away from an educational model. Back when it was legal, 5-star used to have top college coaches teaching skills to campers in a full week-long session.

Today, the camp coaches are made up of a split between AAU guys who lack fundamental knowlege and coaches from prominent high school programs (often young assistants). Camp only lasts 4.5 days instead of the full week and are full of games that fit around limited teaching sessions by coaches often ill-equipped to teach.

Fundamental skills will continue to get worse unless this grassroots culture changes. Kids need time to work on skills in closed sessions with experienced coaches. Instead, they are flown around the country and pimped out in event after event. Not good for anybody but the leeches making $ off of them.

Unfortunately not only will it never happen, but it will most likely get worse. My example today is I went to the store to buy a newspaper which cost $1.62 I gave the cashier $2.00 and for some strange reason her register wasn't working right, so she had to take out a calculator and manual deduct $1.62 from $2.00 in order to find out that she owed me .38 cents.

This world is gradually dumbing downward

 

[Sman2011]

Unfortunately not only will it never happen, but it will most likely get worse. My example today is I went to the store to buy a newspaper which cost $1.62 I gave the cashier $2.00 and for some strange reason her register wasn't working right, so she had to take out a calculator and manual deduct $1.62 from $2.00 in order to find out that she owed me .38 cents.

This world is gradually dumbing downward

Was the cashier's name, montsho11?

 

[HammerDown]

A big part of the strategy though is to stop the clock.

 

[tlance]

A big part of the strategy though is to stop the clock.

In end of game situations, yes. But the "hack a Dwight/Asik/Bogut" type strategies throughout the game are somewhat annoying. Even shooting at a 70% clip would render that strategy pointless since no team wants to give away 1.4 points per possession.

 

[bksballer89]

In end of game situations, yes. But the "hack a Dwight/Asik/Bogut" type strategies throughout the game are somewhat annoying. Even shooting at a 70% clip would render that strategy pointless since no team wants to give away 1.4 points per possession.

The point of the strategy is to steal extra possessions from your opponent. If you use the hack a player strategy 5 times and that player goes 4-10 from the line for example, it pretty much means you just forced 3 empty possessions for your opponent

 

[Hambombs]

Just saying - if all of your players were 90% and better as they should be then there wouldn't be intentional fouling to stop players because it would be automatic buckets.

It would atleast end a lot of it

To Bad there are only 3 players that Do. KD, Curry and JJ Redick.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

A big part of the strategy though is to stop the clock.

This is true, but if the free throw shooter is good enough to shoot 90% it's a strategy that has never worked - Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns for example was a team that no one seldom wanted to intentionally foul. It only works on those 80% and lower shooters because two missed free throws equals a turn over

 

[True Lakers Fan]

To Bad there are only 3 players that Do. KD, Curry and JJ Redick.

Yeah - even Kobe is not quite that high - 83% average over the years

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Nash was 92% last year - and you didn't see him at the free throw line that much either

 

[beardown07]

In end of game situations, yes. But the "hack a Dwight/Asik/Bogut" type strategies throughout the game are somewhat annoying. Even shooting at a 70% clip would render that strategy pointless since no team wants to give away 1.4 points per possession.

MAKE. THE. FUCKING. FREE. THROWS. THEN!!!




I'm sorry, but for the amount of money they make....to see someone like Shaq, get up there and look like an alien that's never seen a sphere before, and shoot a free throw like a retarded 15 year old girl with her left hand is unacceptable.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

MAKE. THE. FUCKING. FREE. THROWS. THEN!!!




I'm sorry, but for the amount of money they make....to see someone like Shaq, get up there and look like an alien that's never seen a sphere before, and shoot a free throw like a retarded 15 year old girl with her left hand is unacceptable.

AND THAT'S MY POINT EXACTLY

 

[BOTSLAYER]

This world is gradually dumbing downward

gradually?

 

[Hambombs]

Yeah - even Kobe is not quite that high - 83% average over the years

Anything over 80 is good

 

[shitsho]

Will never happen at the grassroots level unless all coaches agree to concentrate on it. No coach is going to be tough on their future NBA prospect player over some ft's at any level. Its going to take a player or group of players to change the culture. Lets say Durant and Melo start constantly talking about how important ft's are to their game. Other NBA players and youngsters would be more likely to start taking notice and improve theirs as well.

 

[TexasMan]

Everyone should have the Larry Bird dedication, where he had to make 100 FTs in a row before practice was over. Even if he was at 99 and missed the last one, he'd start it all over again.

 

[True Lakers Fan]

Everyone should have the Larry Bird dedication, where he had to make 100 FTs in a row before practice was over. Even if he was at 99 and missed the last one, he'd start it all over again.

That is the point because when you are making all of those dollars, how can you be good at some things and not good at all things - you are getting paid because you're supposed to be the best.

I am okay with a player not being the absolute best at absolutely everything because that is not possible, but Dwight Howard at 50% free throw shooting was just a freaking joke and pathetic. I don't even want that kind of lazy ass player on my team