Best aquisition of the season?
The best acquisition of the season has to be Sidney Moncrief. This guy took us from being one of the worst free throw shooting teams to being one of the best. There were times last season where our free throws would cost us the game. This season is a whole other story. In the last couple of months, our free throws are actually winning us ball games. Most of the credit has to be given to Sir Sid. Sid the Squid for MVP!
This FanPost is a submission from a member of the mighty Golden State of Mind community. While we're all here to throw up that W, these words do not necessarily reflect the views of the GSoM Crew. Still, chances are the preceding post is Unstoppable Baby!
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Agreed
Props to Sid
by B Randon on Jan 25, 2008 10:03 AM PST reply actions
they're still
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context of FT%
The Warriors are now essentially an average FT shooting team. People fret over FTs because the misses are conspicuous and, late in games, they make a big difference. However, there's very little correlation between a team's FT% and their record. There is a much better (though still not great) correlation between how often they get to the line and their record. Yes, shooting poorly hurts in close games at the end, but much more often, other aspects dictate that games aren't particularly close long before this comes into player.
A FT% of 60% is terrible compared to what other players shoot, but think of it this way: A 60% FT shooter (considered lousy) will, on average, get 1.2 points when they shoot two at the stripe. A 55% shooter from the floor (considered quite good, regardless of position) will, on average, return 1.1 points per FG attempt. The FT shooters who are bad enough that fouling makes sense are very, very rare. Biedrins is a special case in that his FG% (and rate of return) is higher than his FT% so fouling to prevent a basket (provided it does prevent the basket) may make sense. I'd rather have him shoot from the floor than from the line. But most of the time for the vast majority of players, any trip to the line is a good thing.
I never made a correlation between FT% and record
Also the fact that Baron shoots around 75%, for a shooter with his touch, is a tragedy.
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