Sunday, February 2, 2014

Shoot more FTs than they attempt

That is the goal of every coach, I suppose. (Well, maybe of all coaches except those who live by the three-point shot.) Shields has said that a lot, but it definitely is not happening this year. This is a good FT shooting team, and logically we should be wanting to shoot a lot of them, but we are not. We have attempted 535 free throws compared with 565 for our opponents. That is not doing a very good job of leveraging one of the strengths of your team. Will Neighbour has shot 155 times, logically, since he is our leading player. But it drops off drastically after that. Leroy Isler is next with 59.

We shoot 73% as a team, which is at least very respectable, and we have four players shooting at least 80%. If I were Shields, I think I would be trying to get this group to be more aggressive on offense.

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