With the limited practice time? Absolutely. That is up to each individual player.

Quarterman is a complete headcase at the FT line, and when your PG struggles from the line, especially one that dominates the ball, you're going to have a below average FT team.

I mean you have some players who play extremely intelligent on offense and tend to protect the ball. Simmons, Victor, Hornsby, and Patterson all seem to play within themselves. Blakeney is night and day from when he got here. It looks like

I think the real question is what can you do about Quarterman. He can win you games, but he can also lose you games. He's not a true PG/facilitator

The closest thing he's had to a true PG since he's been here is actually Simmons. It may be time to bring Q off the bench again

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Posted by Alt26

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Posted on 2/11/16 at 9:16 am to TigerBait1127

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With the limited practice time? Absolutely. That is up to each individual player.

I'm no Jones fan, AT ALL. But this is the one area I'm not going to put the blame on him. FT shooting is all about practice, repetition and muscle memory. Show me a bad FT shooter and I'll show you someone who really doesn't give a shite about being a good FT shooter and doesn't want to put the hours upon hours of individual work it takes to be a good one. I promise you, every good FT shooter puts in hundreds of hours on their own to make themselves a good FT shooter.

I have no doubt that Jones emphasizes the importance FTs. He can't hold a guy's hand though and make him shoot 200, 300 FTs in an empty gym in June. You don't become a good FT shooter in the 20 minutes after practice. You become a good FT shooter when no one is around to watch you. That's on the players.

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