Isnāt that why Tony got Tād up in first half? Wanted a walk called on him before he chucked a 3 that they got the rebound and put back on .
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Can we run it more please?!
Free throw shooting is on the players. They need to practice on their own time.
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Per KenPom, weāre now #350 in the country in FT shooting %. Out of 362 teams. In other words weāre the 13th best team at missing them!
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We are trying to be the best
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Who are the 12 teams worse than us?
There actually are 12 teams worse than us?
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I think the most disappointing thing about today is that reece added another performance to a string of performances of playing like an early 2nd round pickā¦ #hegone
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And to double the disaster, weāre #271 in FT defense, allowing 73.3%. The bacon promo simply isnāt working!
I miss the halcyon days of great FT defense, especially 2012 when we were #7 nationally at 63.4% allowed.
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If you told me weād shoot 1-11 on free throws and Groves, Rohde, Minor, and Taine combine for 3 points in a win, Iād spit out my beer.
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And then chug it in āIāll take itā celebration
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And if you told me those 3 came from Rohde i would have to shot gun 3 more beeras
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I donāt know why, but free throws are a subject that seems make most people lose sight of the fact that there are relatively large individual differences in skill at them and that it might not be as easily improvable as they think.
In fact, according to research published in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, every playerās free throw misses, and makes, are unique as snowflakes.
The research analyzed five factors ā backspin, launch height, velocity, angle, and left-right deviation ā and used them to explain why NBA players missed free throws. The researchers couldnāt identify one reason why shots clanked off iron, instead finding that each player missed in their own way, usually with one or two consistent, individual factors behind the missed shots.
If every player is missing in their own way, then you have to specifically correct for their particular flavor of missing. And thatās before you consider if a player has any inherent qualities (wingspan, touch, general upper body coordination) that complicate their ability to make free throws.
The average NBA FT% hasnāt moved much in the last several decades, despite the money incentives getting much bigger, the sport getting more science-y, and in theory, decades of accumulation of knowledge of how to improve free throws:
It might just be hard to improve for some guys!
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Pregame, I like to watch how Tony greets coaches on the other team when they come into JPJ. He was really animated greeting one of Wakeās assistants who stayed by our bench for a while talking to a lot of folks. Looked him up and its Matt Woodley who was an assistant under Tony at WSU for three years before Tony came here. Did not know that.
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Hildreth hero ballā¦ last year that wouldāve been Kihei doing the exact same thingā¦ 100% and not even a question.
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All my son kept saying wasā¦ man, if we were away at Wake Forest, weād be winning a lot of bacon 
today.
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Well . . . if you follow the āfall back to the meanā theory of sports, you figure in some close game later this season weāll shoot 10 of 11 free throws. I mean, when we are shooting the ball well we always assume weāre going to fall back to the mean and have a terrible shooting performance, so why doesnāt it work the other way?
I donāt follow that theory. My theory is that we really suck at shooting free throws. Fortunately we did other things so well that we survived it.
And I like Salty Tony during games. Any ref that draws curse words from Tony should immediately be suspended and investigated because he clearly did something or somethings very, very wrong.
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Has it been pointed out that we had a random fan shoot an overhead free throw for $100 during a timeout and go 1-1 and the team manages to go 1-11? Thatās funny and comically unacceptable.
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Plus/minus
Minor played more. Again, Blake played well but steak
feel our offense is more fluid with Minor screening. Guys just go around Blake/Jake/RD.
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Hildreth is a terrible player. Heād drive me nuts if I was a wake fan.
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And several obvious shove-offs that sent our players flying or stumbling backward
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