Old Bear
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12-08-17 03:41 PM - Post#239677
In response to rbg
FWIW, I went looking at Brown's FT% during and just before the Mike Martin Era started in 2012-2013
2017-2018: 78%
2016-2017: 76%
2015-2016: 70%
2014-2015: 69%
2013-2014: 67%
2012-2013: 63%
2011-2012: 63%
I haven't looked closely enough at those numbers to know if the players in his earlier years improved over time due to the staff's teaching and/or the recruited athletes arrived with stronger FT skills.
Maybe someone from the Brown board knows more about how they improved drastically over the last few years.
I think its a matter of who gets the shots. If you have a poor FT shooter who gets fouled a lot, that's a problem. This year Brown has three really good FT shooters, Hunsacker, Anderson and Cambridge (Spieth last year) who have the ball a lot and get fouled. A few players do improve over college experience, most don't. I know the MM emphasizes FT shooting in practice, butI doubt that Brown practices more or better than other teams.
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