Free Throw Percentage's

Hi Girls,

This is not a pretty picture:

Team FT%: 73/226 32.3% We actually shot the ball better from the field than we did at the foul line. They call them Free Throws for a reason. We let 156 points not including possible 1 and 1's slip thru our fingers. If we had made just 50% from the foul line we would have scored 40 more points than we scored. For certain enough to have allowed us to win all the close games we lost. Practice, Practice ,Practice. You cannot be good without good form and lots of practice.

Casey: 2/2 100%

Lindy: 21/40 52.5%

Jordan: 1/2 50%

Caroline: 5/13 38.5%

Jamie: 24/69 34.8%

Jesse: 5/17 29.4%

Mer: 5/17 29.4%

Emily: 6/29 20.7%

Alex: 1/5 20.0%

Lindsey: 3/20 15.0%

Renee: 0/2 0%

Final thoughts: The summer after my sixth grade I went to basketball camp at Campbell College. One of my dorm counselors was Pistol Pete Maravich, then a high school senior. We got to know each other a little since his room was across the hall. One day at the gym as the bus for the kids was loading up he challenged me to a foul shooting contest. With about 50 kids my age cheering I made my first 7 shots. Everyone said , wow you are going to beat Pete Maravich. Well Pete ran out of time before he missed and stomped me real bad. Want to guess how many he made in a row without a miss? 144. I kid you not.

Make it a game for yourself. Try to make 5 in a row, then shoot until you can make 10 in a row. Trust me, there are lots of guys that can make 20 straight and not even think about it.

Proper form, lots of repetitions = Perfect Practice.

50% is my minimum shooting percentage for foul shooting at this level and I personally think that might be too low. Think about how many more points per game you might have scored if you made 80% of your foul shots. How many more games would we have won? Work at it, make yourself good at it.


Thought: Kites don't rise against the wind. Learn to do it the right way, there are proper ways to do things, don't get caught up in I want to do it my way when your coach or your teacher tells you to do it another way. Thats trying to fly your kite against the wind, it just will not fly.

Next up: Rebounds, Defensive and Offensive.


Coach May