(02-15-2018 11:07 PM)Tribal Wrote:  

(02-15-2018 09:54 PM)Zorch Wrote:  

(02-15-2018 07:41 PM)Tribal Wrote:  I hear free throws wins games so we're fine

All snide comments from Tribal aside, it is still just as true as ever:

I guess you gave up sense of humor for lent.

Hitting free throws is just an old fuddy duddy angle. Some of the top teams in the country suck on the free throw line and seem to win a lot of games. And, just tonight, we hit more free throws and bested them by 11% and still lost. We were significantly better vs CoC and got smoked. If you're going to thump your chest and single-line post, "I keep telling you all free throws wins games," like you discovered a vaccination for losing, then suck it up the numerous times it simply isn't so.

So you are saying it wasn't so yesterday? What part of "Hofstra made 12 of their last 13 free throws, in the last 7:26, including 4 in a row from Gustys." does not fit the description that making free throws wins games? Remember, the axiom applies to the other team as well, not just W&M. Hofstra made 12-13 of their late FTs and that iced the game for them.

What part of Pierce missing 5 FTs (6 if you count the back end of an and-one that he didn't shoot because he missed the front end) does not fit the description of missing free throws loses games?

Your argument about the top teams not being good at FTs does not fly. You don't think that those coaches wouldn't dearly love to be better in that statistic? Just take a close look during the NCAA tournament (or all the conference tournaments) and see how many teams blow it by not shooting their FTs well enough. I wonder how many of your "top teams" are going to end up blowing it at the FT line?

If knowing this makes me an "old fuddy duddy" then perhaps more teams need to get back to the basics. W&M's great FT shooting has helped us win a bunch of these games.