Dakota needs to be getting the ball
- Thread starter takedownboiler
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Percentage-wise, Spike Albrecht is the best free-throw shooter on the team.
If it was up to me on who gets to shoot free-throws everytime Purdue goes to the line, my pecking order would be:
1. Spike Albrecht
2. Vince Edwards
3. Caleb Swanigan
4. Carsen Edwards
5. Dakota Mathias
6. Ryan Cline
7. P. J. Thompson
8. Isaac Haas
If it was up to me on who gets to shoot free-throws everytime Purdue goes to the line, my pecking order would be:
1. Spike Albrecht
2. Vince Edwards
3. Caleb Swanigan
4. Carsen Edwards
5. Dakota Mathias
6. Ryan Cline
7. P. J. Thompson
8. Isaac Haas
Big Dakota fan, my favorite Boiler....... Still wasn't it his blown layup that cost Purdue the game.??
I know the freebies @ the FT. really was the culprit... But that missed bunny by DM was huge.
I might be wrong, but my impression has been that PJ has hit some pretty clutch shots....ft's and otherwise. I'm thinking Cline has missed a big one somewhere along the line and I just don't remember Dakota shooting many cluth free throws.
He never gets the chance bc he's always inbounding the ball. Cline missed a bunch of clutch FTs last year.
?? Confused as to why you bring Painter into the conversation when my post did not mention him??
I somewhat agree with you on that for throughout the game. But when the games on the line I want him at the stripe. We have to have someone who can pass the ball in besides him.
Would tend to agree but getting open is part of the equation there too. Also a team can take one player completely out of the equation there if they want to double that player. I was not disappointed for PJ to be shooting there.
UM didn't really pressure the in bounds that hard. PJ got the ball pretty easily. Would rather have Spike do the same thing. Not just picking on PJ, 6/13 isn't all on him. I'm just saying if we have 2 FT's to ice any win, I want Spike every time.
P.J. has probably been better hitting late-game 3PT's than he has been with late-game FT's this season.
I was yelling for pj to pass back to Mathias. Would have wasted a couple seconds and pj is not a confident ft shooter. Didn't think about spike in that spot but did think spike should have gone in when carsen fouled out instead of cline. Definitely agree with you though on your ft point now too.
That was a heartbreaker. I was looking forward to watching basketball today. sure would have been nice for a double title, this was the year.
Hopefully, they got that ft shooting and missed layup stuff out of their system for the tourney that really matters. I'll be back on board but damn that sucked
Here's your list with season/conf FT shooting percentages. People are cringing over the misses at the end of the game, but our second best FT shooter also missed one of two freebies on the 1H technical. One more point there might have won it in regulation too.
1. Spike Albrecht (.947/.900)
2. Vince Edwards (.845/.893)
3. Caleb Swanigan (.791/.817)
4. Carsen Edwards (.708/.821)
5. Dakota Mathias (.842/.885)
6. Ryan Cline (.818/.667)
7. P. J. Thompson (.725/.793)
8. Isaac Haas (.711/.740)
The order I picked for players at the FT line in this hypothetical is also influenced by how "clutch" I perceive each player to be, based off of previous experiences they've had in regular and postseason games. So, I wasn't strictly going by the percentages of the best-to-worst FT shooters in the rotation.
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