Steve Shields frequently tells us that he wants his team to make more free throws than the other team shoots. I suspect most of us scoff at such a goal. After all, FTs are hardly a glamor stat like dunks or three-pointers. No one ever makes ESPN for free throws, and that automatically makes them irrelevant to most of America in today's lopsided world.
But FTs can make a huge difference in a game. Take last season. We lost 15 games, and we averaged 0.1 points/game less than our opponents. That means that we had a razor-thin margin of error. We missed 240 free throws, and we took only 3 more FT attempts than our opponents. It doesn't take a math genius to see where the opportunity lies. That was over 7 points/game that we did not take advantage of. That would have resulted in how more wins?
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