re: Why is LSU basketball so bad a free throws?

Atleast he hasn't really come back to try to defend himself. He knows he messed up, and he's moved on. I hate when guys start threads like this, and defend their remarks until they have no dignity left

The PMAC ghost of Shaq.

I thought we were gonna give the game away late in the second half with missed free throws.

Chris Bass + Malcolm White = 2-10 FT shooting

Yea it was strange when he put Bass in at the end of the game with a couple minutes left

I knew Stringer was helped off the court but I putting Bass in an interesting decision...and Georgia definitely noticed because they immediately fouled him two straight possessions and he went 1-4

I'm just glad Trent recognized his mistake and admitted to it after the game

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101st in the country and 2nd in the league is hardly bad.

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Is this stat accurate? The SEC is that bad in basketball that our 2nd best free throw shooting team is still in the triple digits nationally?

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18-30 for the game or 60% (which was skewed upwards with ones made at the end of the game)




So those free throws we hit at the end of the game "skewed" the statistics? Why should those free throws not count towards statistics? Were those not important free throws that put the game out of reach?

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Because Hamilton made the last four LSU free throws. The last two he made came with 17 seconds left and a 6 point lead. If UGA hits one more shot when they were down only 4 points (after fouling Bass twice in a row), then they don't have to foul Hamilton and give LSU's most clutch free throw shooter two shots.

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That Johnson acknowledged that Bass and White, who missed a vast majority of those free throws, were not good free throw shooters? He made a calculated decision to have two of our worst free throw shooters on the floor in exchange for something else they brought to the game.

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This strategy almost backfired. Can't we get Storm, Hamilton, O'bryant, Turner, and another guard in the game to help with rebounds and free throws? Both of those are extremely crucial when you have a lead with less than 90 seconds left. Bass won't get any rebounds, and he sure ain't making any free throws.

What Trent finally did at the end of the game was have Chris take the damn ball out and have Ralston on the floor...I would love for Hickey to be taking the ball out in those spots but he is very short esp. if they are fronting the inbounder so Turner in the obvious choice but i have confidence in Hickey late in games he seems to step it up at the line. If we hit our normal percentage last night we beat them by 15, it was the exception and not the rule.

Its a curse from when Shaq was here throwing free throws!

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LSU is the #2 team in the conference at shooting FTs.

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so your point is

its ok to be terrible at a key skill because the other teamS in the local area ARE even more terrible at

that same key skill.

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link is NCAA free throw average, by team.

LSU is tied with 4 others for 97th place thru 101st.

LSU is the 100th best free throw shooting team.

There are 3 dozen WHOLE TEAMS that shoot better than any LSU regular.

Ithink its funny that you (lsurulz) just told someone that they look like a fool for what they posted yet all u did was basically put together 4 previous comments in ur post and acted as if u were telling OP something original. "2nd in sec, ur a bandwagoner, etc."