When this team realises the importance of FT's

Miamis3rdRing · Post #21 » by **Miamis3rdRing** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:03 am

Regular season -
Chalmers - 79.2%
LeBron - 77.1%
Wade - 79.1%
Haslem - 81.4%
Joel - 69%

Playoffs -
Chalmers - 68.8% on 48 attempts.
LeBron - 74% on 145 attempts
Wade - 68% on on 100 attempts
Haslem - 68.4% on 19 attempts
Joel - 80% on 25 attempts

I'm using these 5 because the rest have a negligible amount of attempts in the playoff's. Joel is the only one that has stepped his FT game up. :lol:

DrVanNostrand · Post #22 » by **DrVanNostrand** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:51 am

Joel is the MVP for a reason.

Slot Machine · Post #23 » by **Slot Machine** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:52 am

Joel had those clutch FTs to close out Philly last year too.

Joel is the best closer on this team.

Vertical Limit · Post #24 » by **Vertical Limit** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:17 am

coolstorybro wrote:Regular season -
Chalmers - 79.2%
LeBron - 77.1%
Wade - 79.1%
Haslem - 81.4%
Joel - 69%

Playoffs -
Chalmers - 68.8% on 48 attempts.
LeBron - 74% on 145 attempts
Wade - 68% on on 100 attempts
Haslem - 68.4% on 19 attempts
Joel - 80% on 25 attempts

I'm using these 5 because the rest have a negligible amount of attempts in the playoff's. Joel is the only one that has stepped his FT game up.

Wow I want to vomit looking at those numbers.

narmerguy · Post #25 » by **narmerguy** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 5:45 am

coolstorybro wrote:Regular season -
Chalmers - 79.2%
LeBron - 77.1%
Wade - 79.1%
Haslem - 81.4%
Joel - 69%

Playoffs -
Chalmers - 68.8% on 48 attempts.
LeBron - 74% on 145 attempts
Wade - 68% on on 100 attempts
Haslem - 68.4% on 19 attempts
Joel - 80% on 25 attempts

I'm using these 5 because the rest have a negligible amount of attempts in the playoff's. Joel is the only one that has stepped his FT game up.

This is sad. Free points just...bouncing off the rim.

GreenHat · Post #26 » by **GreenHat** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 6:04 am

FlashKing wrote:How long have you guys been watching this team? they've been a dreadful FT shooting team for years. it's not going to change during the finals. we just gotta hope that LeBron, Wade and a healthy Bosh play at a high level.

Except that's just not true. THIS year we were the 7th best FT shooting team. Last year we were 12th.

How have we been dreadful for years?

You remember the misses when its your team. Other teams have those same misses and this season almost all of those teams missed a greater percentage than us.

GreenHat · Post #27 » by **GreenHat** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 6:10 am

HIF wrote:10 of 20 is not acceptable, stop making excuses.

Clearly the main point of my post was that 10 of 20 is acceptable, glad you were able to catch on.

I was saying we shouldn't waste too much time on FTs because we're already an above average FT shooting team and the incremental improvement at the line isn't greater than the opportunity cost of not using that practice time on something else.

Better to work on our offensive inconsistencies. As I've been saying we've had those long stretches where we can barely score (like yesterday when we only had 2 points over several minutes). They are masked by other stretches where Lebron and/or Wade can't miss but we need to be able to score for stretches when they aren't at the top of their games and not just rely on jumpshots and fast breaks.

HIF · Post #28 » by **HIF** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 8:27 am

You do understand avergaes don't you?

Wade and James are shooting about 52% from the field against Boston. That's better than Wade's season average and about Bron's. Whether they score 20 in a row and then miss a few that's what averages is. however Wade's FT % is way down. That affects morale too and the thought of attacking the basket.

Still you're the guy who would prefer novak over diaw on the team.

FlashKing · Post #29 » by **FlashKing** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 9:00 am

GreenHat wrote:
FlashKing wrote:How long have you guys been watching this team? they've been a dreadful FT shooting team for years. it's not going to change during the finals. we just gotta hope that LeBron, Wade and a healthy Bosh play at a high level.

Except that's just not true. THIS year we were the 7th best FT shooting team. Last year we were 12th.

How have we been dreadful for years?

You remember the misses when its your team. Other teams have those same misses and this season almost all of those teams missed a greater percentage than us.

Those stats are deceiving. this team as a collective has never been clutch from the line since i've watched them. this is just from my perspective... they've been an average free throw shooting team since the Mourning/Hardaway days. the last 2 games can attest to that.

Shot_Swatter · Post #30 » by **Shot_Swatter** » Sun Jun 3, 2012 12:36 pm

Very difficult to explain such a drastic drop (more then 10%) in free throw percentage from the regular season to playoffs. It's got to be either a mental/concentration issue, or physical exhaustion. Wade's astonishing dip from 79% to 68% may very well be explained by weak knees, but its terribly difficult to provide excuses for Rio and Haslem. Hopefully Spo or Riley get on them, and they improve in time for game 4. We cannot afford to underestimate this Celtics team. Too many Heat fans are making the risky assumption the we're a lock for the Finals already.