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2 minutes ago, goonaha said:

Sorry, didn't realize this was a Dayton board. To answer your question, I got two years out of that because I care about the track record at Indiana and with this roster of players. You, obviously, could have figured that out. 

 

Also, he "literally" (as opposed to those figurative teams that he's coached) had a Dayton team shoot 72% in 2012-2013 and 78% in 2011-2012. 

What an absurd attempt to deflect your failure to understand. 

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1 minute ago, Brass Cannon said:

What an absurd attempt to deflect your failure to understand. 

Is it more absurd to say that he's "literally never had a good free throw shooting team" when I could find two with a quick google search though?

So yeah, I misread his initial statement. Because I am thinking about Archie's time at Indiana, I quickly read over his sentence and thought of only Indiana teams. My bad. The horror. But his initial statement, on further investigation, is also objectively wrong. 

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15 minutes ago, goonaha said:

Sorry, didn't realize this was a Dayton board. To answer your question, I got two years out of that because I care about the track record at Indiana and with this roster of players. You, obviously, could have figured that out. 

 

Also, he "literally" (as opposed to those figurative teams that he's coached) had a Dayton team shoot 72% in 2012-2013 and 78% in 2011-2012. 

Low 70s for the easiest shot in the game isn't anything to write home about, so you have a data set of one year.  Doesn't change that his teams suck at shooting free throws.  So 'literally' isn't the right term but you can expect his teams to be lousy from the stripe because it's an established trend.

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5 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

Low 70s for the easiest shot in the game isn't anything to write home about, so you have a data set of one year.  Doesn't change that his teams suck at shooting free throws.  So 'literally' isn't the right term but you can expect his teams to be lousy from the stripe because it's an established trend.

For context, that low 70s number was good for 96th in the country. Obviously not outstanding, but above average. I guess you get to throw that out though? I didn't realize the goal posts had moved to the standard of "writing home about".

Did some further digging, his two years at Arizona, Arizona shot 73.3 (32nd in country) and 74.6 (36th in country). 

You are correct in that "literally" was not the right term. But when you jump someone over reading comprehension, maybe take care to choose your own words more carefully.

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Low 70s for the easiest shot in the game isn't anything to write home about, so you have a data set of one year.  Doesn't change that his teams suck at shooting free throws.  So 'literally' isn't the right term but you can expect his teams to be lousy from the stripe because it's an established trend.

Low 70’s will put you in the top 100 teams out of 353
Above average. Should low 70’s be above average? Probably not but that’s where it’s at today


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5 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Is it average for teams competing for a NT though. I doubt it 

I don't know but you're more than welcome to crunch the numbers on that. If you have the capability to export all of basketball-reference and pivot the data for only elite eight teams, I would love to know the answer. I will say that a quick look at the top ten FT% teams each of the last few years is illuminating. A lot of non tourney teams in there. The original discussion was centered around a statement that Archie has never had a good free throw shooting team and that by extension is either incompetent or does not care about his job. 

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20 minutes ago, goonaha said:

How did Tech and Auburn pull that off? Certainly doesn't seem like average for a national title contender!

Archie has one year that is middle of the pack for title contenders and your still dying on the hill that his teams are just fine at FTs. We only have to bump up about 200 spots to be in the same company after all

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1 minute ago, Brass Cannon said:

Archie has one year that is middle of the pack for title contenders and your still dying on the hill that his teams are just fine at FTs. We only have to bump up about 200 spots to be in the same company after all

Sorry, where did I say that we are just fine?

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1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:


LoyolaChicago(127th-72%),Kansas(196th-70), Nova( 10th- 78%), Michigan(323th-66%)
Final 4 2017-18


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Because 66% is 1.32 points per possession, which is excellent.

It’s a dang shame when a team is below standards at the line, but it’s clearly not a make or break statistic.

 

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Because 66% is 1.32 points per possession, which is excellent.
It’s a dang shame when a team is below standards at the line, but it’s clearly not a make or break statistic.
 

Definitely not make or break for a team but would of made life a lot easier if they could just hit FT’s. If I’m remembering right from Michigan’s run people were fouling Simpson late because he FT shooting was terrible and in the tournament he was knocking them down


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The good news is them getting to the line 43 times but only making 24 of them (56%) is absolutely embarrassing. If they would have hit just 66% (still turrble) that would have been 4 more points and... a win in a meaningless exhibition game.

We can’t rely on getting to the line 40+ times a game because Big Ten. We need to hit at least 70% from the line. That’s nothing crazy and should be achievable. We also need the right players going to the line. That means Green, Phin, Al, and hopefully Hunter and Jackson-Davis being aggressive when we get to the bonus.


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The good news is them getting to the line 43 times but only making 24 of them (56%) is absolutely embarrassing. If they would have hit just 66% (still turrble) that would have been 4 more points and... a win in a meaningless exhibition game.

 

We can’t rely on getting to the line 40+ times a game because Big Ten. We need to hit at least 70% from the line. That’s nothing crazy and should be achievable. We also need the right players going to the line. That means Green, Phin, Al, and hopefully Hunter and Jackson-Davis being aggressive when we get to the bonus.

 

 

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Yeah last year we were good for 13 out of 20 per game. That’s just a number that has to improve. It’s not going to be a main reason we win/lose regularly but it could cost us a couple of games.

 

 

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FT's matter a whole lot more to teams that struggle to shoot from the perimeter I'd venture to guess. So I'd say yeah the low FT% for this team could matter quite a bit.

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