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Why is LSU basketball so bad a free throws?
Posted on 2/23/12 at 8:55 am
Posted on 2/23/12 at 8:55 am
For the life of me I can't figure out how this team or any team can be so bad from the free throw line! 
Do they not practice them at all?!?
18-30 for the game or 60% (which was skewed upwards with ones made at the end of the game)
On the team's free throw shooting ...
"I do not know as much as we struggled; and I say that based off of what Chris Bass and Malcolm White shoot from the free throw line. Neither one of them are high volume percentage shooters. I thought the guys that were at the line that are high percentage free throw shooters made them. Chris (Bass) did a good job of hitting the front end of the one-and-one when it got close. Malcolm (White) did a good job of hitting the one that he hit, but for the most part when Andre (Stringer) started having cramps or what he had, we had to play Chris (Bass) and that is probably a bad move on my part. I should have put John Isaac in because he is a pretty good free throw shooter. We wanted to put Chris (Bass) in because we thought he can do a good job defending (Gerald) Robinson so you pick your poison when one of your key guys, who is a good free throw shooter, gets hurt and you have to take him out. In terms of our percentages, Malcolm (White) and Chris (Bass) they work at it, but they are both about 60 percent from the free throw line. Ralston (Turner), we got him to the line and he shoots them well, Justin (Hamilton) at the line shoots them well. That is who you want at the line"
Do they not practice them at all?!? 18-30 for the game or 60% (which was skewed upwards with ones made at the end of the game)
On the team's free throw shooting ...
"I do not know as much as we struggled; and I say that based off of what Chris Bass and Malcolm White shoot from the free throw line. Neither one of them are high volume percentage shooters. I thought the guys that were at the line that are high percentage free throw shooters made them. Chris (Bass) did a good job of hitting the front end of the one-and-one when it got close. Malcolm (White) did a good job of hitting the one that he hit, but for the most part when Andre (Stringer) started having cramps or what he had, we had to play Chris (Bass) and that is probably a bad move on my part. I should have put John Isaac in because he is a pretty good free throw shooter. We wanted to put Chris (Bass) in because we thought he can do a good job defending (Gerald) Robinson so you pick your poison when one of your key guys, who is a good free throw shooter, gets hurt and you have to take him out. In terms of our percentages, Malcolm (White) and Chris (Bass) they work at it, but they are both about 60 percent from the free throw line. Ralston (Turner), we got him to the line and he shoots them well, Justin (Hamilton) at the line shoots them well. That is who you want at the line"
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Posted on 2/23/12 at 8:58 am to TopWaterTiger
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:00 am to OweO
We're second in the SEC... And Hamilton is almost perfect in most of his games. 
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:00 am to TopWaterTiger
last night was more of the exception, not the rule
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:01 am to TopWaterTiger
Coming into the game we were the second best FT shooting team in the league. Last night was just an off night.
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:01 am to TopWaterTiger
quote:welcome aboard the bandwagon, becuase it is very obvious you haven't watched this team play all year.
Why is LSU basketball so bad a free throws?
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:02 am to S
quote:
last night was more of the exception, not the rule
Good to know. I've only been able to watch a handful of games this season (the ones on TV) and that is always one of my personal pet peeves when it comes to basketball.
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:03 am to bee Rye
Bandwagon! We win 4 games in a row and are on the bubble and ppl start bitching about free throws in a game we WON!
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:03 am to TopWaterTiger
LSU is a good free throw shooting team, chris bass and white are not good free throw shooters
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:03 am to S
As long as you get it to Hamilton, Stringer or Turner late in games they'll be fine.
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:05 am to TopWaterTiger
This thread not going as expected?
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:05 am to TopWaterTiger
Typical LSU fandom.
4 game W streak. Nitpick to find complaints. The most unhappy fanbase in the country. *sigh*
4 game W streak. Nitpick to find complaints. The most unhappy fanbase in the country. *sigh*
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:06 am to josh336
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This thread not going as expected?
Should have known better by now. My bad. Should have blamed it on the apathetic crowd or the student section.
This post was edited on 2/23/12 at 9:12 am
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:09 am to TopWaterTiger
quote:
For the life of me I can't figure out how this team or any team can be so bad from the free throw line
Dude, we're second in the SEC in Free throw percentage. It was an off night. Every team has them. Your comment shows that you haven't watched us play very much this year. Hop on the bandwagon. Its going to be a fun ride. Just do a little research before you make yourself look like a fool next time
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:09 am to TopWaterTiger
First of all, this is not a bad free throw shooting team. 101st in the country and 2nd in the league is hardly bad. LINK
Second, didn't that quote answer your own question? 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.
Third:
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?
Second, didn't that quote answer your own question? 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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quote:
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?
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:09 am to TopWaterTiger
Gotta give credit to UGA for fouling Bass, our worst free throw shooter, late in the came to keep it close. Once Trent took him out we started making those FTs.
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:10 am to TopWaterTiger
Wow this dude sure looks like a fricking moron
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:14 am to TopWaterTiger
stringer is our best free throw shooter so we missed him while he was on the bench
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:18 am to TopWaterTiger
quote:because Malcom White was 1-6. that is your answer.
Why is LSU basketball so bad a free throws?
The team is at or above 70% for the year and were above 80 percent in the previous three games.
white and bass rarely get to the line...it just so happened that they did, and they struggled.
Posted on 2/23/12 at 9:22 am to TopWaterTiger
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18-30 for the game or 60% (which was skewed upwards with ones made at the end of the game)
Yea, we all know those don't count
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