FT% in close losses

It’s usually Chins and Condo bringing down the averages, not the guards like last night.

 

There’s probably a lot of stats that fall short of season averages if you pluck out the 4 losses for a 24-4 team.

Not worried even a little. This team has shown it can win close games, so it’s not even like we can say they are too used to blowing out teams but “can’t win the close ones”
(a line that is sometimes used).

 

I hope that lady that was behind the announcers last night can’t speak for a week

 

I wonder what the assist #s were like in those games. Seemed like it was low last night.

 

Yep, not much ball movement.

 

Interesting . . . and I agree dissecting close losses may reveal something. I can almost guarantee Coach Golden has.

I'm not knocking your thread at all, but the difference between 71% and 63%-68%-62% is one FT out of 20, in the last case 1/10. Right? Sometimes I miss the obvious. LOL!

I think like gatordavisl brought up, assists (or assist-to-turnovers or turnovers) might also show tendencies . . . but like BLING said, with a sample size that small I'd be reluctant to extrapolate much.

Still interesting. Thanks!

 

We only have one loss if they all only missed 1 or 2 every game. Sigh.

 

We have got to have someone that they can't afford to foul late.

 

When we stepped to the line against Auburn it felt automatic. Against Georgia it felt like an automatic miss.

 

Clayton is the only one I really trust, and even he has an off night from time to time. The one person I always felt confident shooting free throws late in the game was Taurean Green.

 

I trusted Scotty W his senior year, Chris Chiozza his junior/senior year. Also trust ZP last year. There have been some guards I trusted late and we had our fair share. Not all doom and gloom my friend.

 

There are 3 areas that will doom us if they show up come tourney time and FT shooting is one of them. The other 2 are - 1st half starts and defensive rebounding. We are the worst 1st half team in the Top 25 this year. At home, we aren't bad but on the road against anyone we are ranked 52nd in 1st half scoring margin. FT %.....well not good at all here. We are ranked 212th in FT shooting. No way to sugar coat that. If I'm defending us in March, I'm telling my team to foul as much as possible. Put Florida at the charity stripe rather than have them score in play. Then defensive rebounding. We are ranked 90th. Defensive rebounding enables fast breaks that lead to 3 point plays and it steals a possession and prevents them from getting fouled.

 

I think you read too much into my comment. Not saying we haven't had clutch free throw shooters recently. Just saying the one guy I was most confident in was TG. I think he hit something like 40+ straight at one point.

 

Untimely FT misses hurt when we were trying to get over the hump vs UGA. My bigger concern was Clayton having 5 TOs including several more that he was fortunate not to lose. He didn't seem strong with the ball all night.

 

Lol..gotcha...call me crazy but I trusted the under hand FT shooter himself the most. Canyon Barry. That guy never missed. Almost never.

 

Ironic too since we’re a giard dominant team with a couple bigs that can shoot

 

…..and Dan Cross

 

Yes!