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Originally Posted by twelli
It's an interesting question: How is FT percentage influenced by playing time and role of player on the team?
Obviously, you play more, your are more tired, and you are the Man, you shoot the free throws when it counts, so there is more pressure.
On the other hand, if you come off the bench here and there, maybe just for a minute at a time, you might have more difficulty to find any kind of rhythm. A starting shooter might find it easier to shoot FTs cause he's shooting all the time.
Also, if you are a bench player, every missed FT could mean you will be benched for good after the next time out, so there's pressure too.
Here's an idea, why not have a FT shoot out at the All Star Game? The two players with the highest percentage shoot free throws side by side. Who misses first loses. If no one misses, the winner is who makes most shots in 3 minutes or so. Would be fun to watch. Or both players shoots 100 FTs and the winner is who makes most of them, if both make all the one who's faster wins.
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No matter how good you are it's simple statistics that the smaller the sample size, the greater the chance for outliers and thus less attempts makes an ultra high percentage more likely.
Shawn Bradley for instance shot 92.2% on fts 1 year when he only shot 1.2 per game despite being a career 71.6 ft shooter.