Gonzaga v UCLA w 5 to go 1st Half
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Tomorrow going to take 20 FTs and see how many I can miss while touching the rim
How many will….
Go in
Miss but hit rim
Miss and not hit rim
How many will….
Go in
Miss but hit rim
Miss and not hit rim
How can you hate on that guy? We’d freaking kill to have him. Good for him, he’s a legend.
Dude had 36 points and 13 boards. He holds the record for most 20-point games in the history of the NCAA tournament. Doubt he'll ever pay for a beer in Spokane; will probably own an auto dealership there within a decade.
Hey, it worked for Rick Barry: 88% in the ABA, and 90% in the NBA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Barry
He'll likely be drafted and I think he has enough skills to stick in the NBA, especially as he also seems like a good glue guy.
Good for thought:
Timme gets called for just 1 of multiple walks, on that play in the 1st half, and Zags come up a bucket short.
(I KNOW…THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS…BLAH BLAH)
Timme gets called for just 1 of multiple walks, on that play in the 1st half, and Zags come up a bucket short.
(I KNOW…THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS…BLAH BLAH)
Looked like the play Baker/Harper ran about two dozen times
The goal is to shoot as low of a percentage while having ZERO airballs.
Saying a player should miss on purpose isn't as easy as it sounds. Especially when the one thing you can't do is airball.
I think the play is aim for the backiron. If you are short it goes in. If you are long it banks in, but you have almost zero risk of an airball
It has to hit the rim too though right? So not ok to just hit the backboard?
Why does this shot count? I thought you couldn't be the first player to receive the ball when you came from out of bounds. It looks to me like he was. I still don't understand that rule.
Three exciting games today (Thursday).
If you take a normal foul shot aiming for back iron you aren’t going to miss so long that it will hit off the backboard and miss rim.
I think if I take 20 free throws trying to miss and create a rebound….
6 go in
14 are successful
0 airballs
It's also a challenge to go against muscle memory of thousands of reps, and it doesn't make sense to practice missing free throws.
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That non-call on the walk (OP) is the definition of college reffing this season. Refs looking for the foul calls instead of officiating the rules. If you look at the chests of the players (ie looking for foul contact) you wouldn’t even notice the travel.
Refs need to call the rules (travel, out of bounds, timing issues, etc) instead of slowing down the game and making it about themselves with all these foul calls. This year as worse as ever especially in the B1G.
Refs need to call the rules (travel, out of bounds, timing issues, etc) instead of slowing down the game and making it about themselves with all these foul calls. This year as worse as ever especially in the B1G.
Also, I am not nearly as good of a free throw shooter as many of these players... So my actual attempts to make a free throw are going to result in more misses than they would to begin with. Telling me to make the free throw probably would result in a better chance of a rebound than telling me to miss it, lol
I saw Cronin multiple times yelled at. Myles is one of my favorite Rutgers players of all time. I want to ***** Cronin's face every time I see him.
I mentioned this because at the 8-10U level, I can say from direct observation this is by far the most common outcome I’ve seen on intentional misses. The kids often overshoot it and fail to hit iron. Of course, elementary age AAU is miles different from college but I still think in general if your trying hard to miss you might apply too much force.
