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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 4180610, member: 504"] I hope everyone here watched Providence/Marquette. Aside from it being a fun game, both those teams on the average shoot at a better FT clip than UConn and they were no great shakes down the stretch including some good foul shooters. Seriously, some here have expectations that are out of this world as far as our team goes. I’d bet the ranch our team practices foul shooting as typically as any team and generally perform around the average. Of course it depends on the shooter. Cole on the average makes between 1 and 3 more out of 10 than the others. But he misses them too. Practice definitely helps, but getting a player from the low 60s to low 70s is more likely than getting a player in the low 70s to the mid 80s even with practice til the cows come home. For whatever reason, some people have more ability than others to repeat with precision the same desired physical process than others. Touring pro golfers almost all practice a lot but some are just better at controlling the ball flight or putting than others regardless of practice. ETA. If a team that went 7-7 in OT that went 10-19 in regulation suddenly figured out how to shoot foul shots during a time out it doesn't make a shred of sense to me that the practice routine is the issue. It depends on who is shooting to a point, but at bottom each shot is it’s own little universe and some are just going to miss. [/QUOTE]