re: Should basketball coaches be able to decline free throws?

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If every player on the floor was hitting 70+ percent (which is without question attainable for any NBA player willing to bother to put in at least a bit of practice at it) this strategy would cease.

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It is not without a question attainable. Several factors come into play for bigger guys, especially length and the mental aspect of the game. Harder to be precise with a longer lever

Plenty have put in the work and can't consistently hit 70%

No amount of hard work will make up for the 10+ years of not working on their perimeter game either and coordination tends to come later for them

Those type of players are going to have a much lower ceiling, which I would put in the 70% range at best