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I disagree..you want Cooney dribbling the ball. He's not good off the bounce. He's a good spot up shooter.he doesn't create.
That helped us.
Ask 89, he knows where the threads are and have seen him arguing about the subject for a couple years now.
I've seen some of those threads too. And no one is arguing what you're saying. It's a gross mischaracterization.
Yeah? And if he didn't steal and score the last minute would you have responded to me by saying, "you're right, ahem"??
No you wouldn't have.
Plenty have said they are way down in the list of importance, though.
Many have said THAT.
And that would be a valid point. Would those last FTs have mattered if Pitt didn't let up their double digit lead? Does FT% matter if the FR% is absolutely terrible? Who cares if you shoot a great % if you only get to the line four times a game?
Right. This might be our best free throw shooting team ever under Dixon. Wouldn't you rather have it be the best defensive team?
Then we lost mainly because cuse made a ton of 3's down the stretch. The fts contributed, but the 3's were a much bigger impact.
Then the biggest problem would've been our inability to beat the Cuse press in the last few minutes.
He played well in the last 60 seconds. he was horrible in the 2 minutes or so before that.
But it's the last 60 seconds that mattered most....and he does deserve big credit for those two very clutch plays when it mattered the most. He saved us from ourselves.
That was not a "furious comeback" by Cuse as much as it was very nearly a total collapse by Pitt, and the game was very much in doubt right until Cooney's final shot missed.
FT% is absolutely not as important as you pretend it is.
The proof is that we missed 6 FTs and Cuse missed 4.
And Pitt won.
There is a little thing called "momentum" which you are not factoring in at all. For example those 2 FT's Mike Young missed started a huge swing towards Syracuse. kinda like an X factor.
I don't want to join in on this stupid "debate", but you do realize that FTs are an important component of offense, right?
Maybe if you looked at the context of my response to Hormone's brilliant post......
I did. But FT% still matters less than 2 point % and 3 point %, offensive rebounding. Heck, with free throws, how often you get to the line is more important than the percentage. Which really shouldn't be that hard to understand.
A Win is a Win and I don't care how they got it. H2P!
In the case that you really can't process my meaning: Offense-not-including-free-throw-shooting. This does include getting to the free throw line.
Oh--so I was supposed to assume that the statement in the post I responded to was restricted to FT percentage......and not simply "free throws" as it actually stated.
Of course, the entire argument is about making them not getting to the line. Perhaps you should pay attention more a little.
He has largely been the only one bringing it up. He didn't understand what people were saying, and has been beating the wrong drum for years. I wish everyone would just let it drop. It is really a dumb discussion. Makes us all look like idiots. No matter what side of the argument you're on.
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