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138388.2 in reply to 138388.1
Date: 3/30/2010 6:29:37 PM
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Well I can give you tons of examples of players who are great at inside shooting but who are horrid from the charity stripe. There are also lots of players who are small guys who have a good FG% and a reasonable scoring rate but who are only average FT shooters. Where I agree that it is more rare is with 3 point shooters. These guys are often specialist shooters and spend a lot of time working on their shooting rather than just being in the gym pumping iron so they don't get pushed around by Dwight and Shaq.

I don't think this is a good change because the system works well as it is. Mind you I trained FTs this offseason because I had 3 guys that had bad FTs. But none of the key guys popped and only 4/15 players did at al. If it was going to be a secondary for something (which I don't think it should be) then that thing should be JR.

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138388.3 in reply to 138388.2
Date: 3/30/2010 10:30:26 PM
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I guess I just figure that most players in the NBA are at least decent at Free Throws. I don't understand how improving your jump shot and inside shot wouldn't help free throws even if only by a small bit. I guess I think that it just takes way too long to train free throws up to a decent level (if you start on pitiful), and no one is going to spend 10 weeks training free throws to get it up to respectable.

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138388.4 in reply to 138388.3
Date: 3/31/2010 1:59:51 AM
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Well actially they probably will. There are two weeks per season when you only have two games, more if you end up 5th or 8th. Most people train either Fts or stamina in that time. If you got a player when he was 18, kept him for 10 seasons and did one each of stamina and free throws per season you would have done 10 weeks of free throws. Haven't you ever seen older dudes on the transfer list with prominent stamina and free throws? That is how it happens.

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138388.5 in reply to 138388.4
Date: 3/31/2010 2:17:50 AM
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I understand that, but what I mean is that in real life, you don't have to wait 10 years to be good at free throws. Any shooting practice in real life is going to improve your free throw percentage as well.

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138388.6 in reply to 138388.5
Date: 3/31/2010 9:33:29 AM
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Actually I believe that I read somewhere - not on BB, somewhere in real life, that there had been a recent study of college ball players and it showed that for most players there was actually very little improvement in their FT % over their 4 year college career.

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138388.7 in reply to 138388.6
Date: 3/31/2010 10:06:57 AM
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Ah okay. Just wierd to see bb players shooting 1-8 free throws. Even I can make more than 1-8.

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138388.10 in reply to 138388.7
Date: 3/31/2010 5:03:02 PM
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Yes I agree that the base level is probably a bit low, I have a guy who was - check this 0 from 58 last season for free throws. Even an untalented year 7 can do better than that.

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138388.11 in reply to 138388.7
Date: 4/1/2010 2:37:33 AM
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Train FT if you want your players better on that. It would not make any sense to train FT itself if it would be fixed by other training. If you like to connect it with JS or JR, then I say would be better to slow these down even more.

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