People were so adamant in the off season that Lonzo would get back to his historic 70% pre-nba freethrow shooting percentage yet he is still at 45%. This team is embarrassingly poor at the line.
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:41 pm Post subject:
It's the pace. That's why LBJ's free throw % is down 5%. It's not like Luke is teaching everyone how to not make free throws at practice. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
As far as I can tell, the Lakers aren't working with the players to improve their shooting form so anytime they do free throw drills, it just enforces bad habits.
The longer they just keep this up, the harder it is going to be to correct.
Just a continued bad move by not having a shooting coach for a team that really does need one.
EDIT: coaching recently helped perennial bottom of the heap free throw shooter Deandre Jordan who is shooting about 28%!!!! higher this year than his career average (73.5% vs 45.6%)
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:41 am Post subject:
Darthlaker wrote:
They are losing games for one reason - they can't make a free throw!
69.2% as a team.
The "King" at 67.9% - WTF people say he is #1/#2 player of all time - give me a fu*king break.
Full time players getting paid millions.
Absolutely pathetic.
I find it hard to even watch their games anymore.
Agreed 100% besides I’ll always watch the games when I can. _________________ We pour this booze and we drink this booze because we think it's yummy. YUMMY! So over the tounge and down the throat to party in our tummys.
DOWN THE HOLA BITC*OLA!!!
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:45 am Post subject:
Staccatos wrote:
As far as I can tell, the Lakers aren't working with the players to improve their shooting form so anytime they do free throw drills, it just enforces bad habits.
The longer they just keep this up, the harder it is going to be to correct.
Just a continued bad move by not having a shooting coach for a team that really does need one.
EDIT: coaching recently helped perennial bottom of the heap free throw shooter Deandre Jordan who is shooting about 28%!!!! higher this year than his career average (73.5% vs 45.6%)
CANNOT blame this on coaches. There is no excuse for these guys to not figure it by themselves or reach out to someone who can.
Good for DAJ tho btw that’s impressive. _________________ We pour this booze and we drink this booze because we think it's yummy. YUMMY! So over the tounge and down the throat to party in our tummys.
DOWN THE HOLA BITC*OLA!!!
As far as I can tell, the Lakers aren't working with the players to improve their shooting form so anytime they do free throw drills, it just enforces bad habits.
The longer they just keep this up, the harder it is going to be to correct.
Just a continued bad move by not having a shooting coach for a team that really does need one.
EDIT: coaching recently helped perennial bottom of the heap free throw shooter Deandre Jordan who is shooting about 28%!!!! higher this year than his career average (73.5% vs 45.6%)
CANNOT blame this on coaches. There is no excuse for these guys to not figure it by themselves or reach out to someone who can.
Good for DAJ tho btw that’s impressive.
I'm sorry but your "figure it out themselves approach" isn't working. Coaching and management is there for a reason. They are supposed to work with the players on improving.
Yeah in extraordinary circumstances a player can just figure it out on their own. But you may notice that there aren't many Kobe Bryant's out there.
As far as I can tell, the Lakers aren't working with the players to improve their shooting form so anytime they do free throw drills, it just enforces bad habits.
The longer they just keep this up, the harder it is going to be to correct.
Just a continued bad move by not having a shooting coach for a team that really does need one.
EDIT: coaching recently helped perennial bottom of the heap free throw shooter Deandre Jordan who is shooting about 28%!!!! higher this year than his career average (73.5% vs 45.6%)
Unfortunately have to agree. This organization doesn't seem to think it's a priority.
@NBALakersNation offered up free League Pass to those who sent videos of making 10 FTs in a row. These kids are better FT shooters than anyone on the Lakers
Our atrocious free throw shooting has already cost us 6-7 games now. This will haunt us come playoff time. C ould be difference between 2nd round exit and WCF.
I think this is a ploy so the league will use the Hack-a-Laker tactic... and then boom, we hit all our free throws. _________________ "Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money & position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold & contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."
Our atrocious free throw shooting has already cost us 6-7 games now. This will haunt us come playoff time. C ould be difference between 2nd round exit and WCF.
With the way things are going, kind of concerned we might not even make it.
Can’t afford any injury to Lebron and to a lesser extent Rondo. If Lebron misses more than 3-5 games, we are in big trouble.
In foul situations, KCP and Kuzma are the 2 that should have the ball. The others need to stay out of the way until they can make (bleep) FTs at over 80%.
Our atrocious free throw shooting has already cost us 6-7 games now. This will haunt us come playoff time. C ould be difference between 2nd round exit and WCF.
With the way things are going, kind of concerned we might not even make it.
Can’t afford any injury to Lebron and to a lesser extent Rondo. If Lebron misses more than 3-5 games, we are in big trouble.
In foul situations, KCP and Kuzma are the 2 that should have the ball. The others need to stay out of the way until they can make (bleep) FTs at over 80%.
Lol, I didn't even think of that.
Why did Ingram end up with the ball after they got the rebound and knew they were going to foul somebody?
A lot mistakes and bad plays at the end really cost them this game.
If the Lakers were hitting their free throws...they'd be in first place in the Western Conference. Think about that. _________________ A three headed monster... Jeannie, Pelinka, and Ham... another terrible season.
Our atrocious free throw shooting has already cost us 6-7 games now. This will haunt us come playoff time. C ould be difference between 2nd round exit and WCF.
Free throws is the reason we're not winning a playoffs series imo. Unless we're much much better but I don't see it.
We will lose every down to the wire game because opposing players know we'll miss 1 out of 2 free throws every single time. This will be a huge problem all season and it's not going to get better. We know Ingram and Lonzo and Rondo are trash free throw shooters. We know Lebron and Kuzma are not trustworthy at the line either. This is who they are.
2. A Bonus Point is awarded for making all free throws per trip to the line.
3. The team loses a point when all free throws are missed during a trip to the line. _________________ I'm On point, On task, On message, and Off drugs. A Streetwise Smart Bomb, Out of rehab and In denial. Over the Top, On the edge, Under the Radar, and In Control. Behind the 8 ball, Ahead of the Curve and I've got a Love Child who sends me Hate mail.
Ok, so we all know free throws are losing us games. It really is strange that the Laker organization does not seem to give a dam about the issue. We need to flood all Laker forums demanding Magic and Lakers get a shooting coach and fix these guys form at the line lol. Hell I’m thinking about going to whitehouse.gov and opening a petition requesting a shooting coach for the Lakers...Sounds funny/weird but they open petitions for all sorts of crazy things and some actually get mentioned in the news (we need the word out in public to maybe get some traction on this). Imagine if we make the playoffs or finals and bad free throw shooting kills us...Damn that would be a shame. Lebron also needs a good talking to, don’t care if he’s the King, make your freaking free throws.
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