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STORY: T.J. Otzelberger focused on improving free throw percentage in '23-'24

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T.J. Otzelberger is focused on improving his team's mark from the free throw line this season, and the program's brought in just the pieces to do it.

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T.J. Otzelberger puts a focus on improvement from the free throw line for 2023-'24 season

AMES - Iowa State ranked 320th in free throws made per game a season ago. Obviously, that's a number the Cyclones are eager to change. Iowa State, under coach T.J. Otzelberger, has been focused on creating strong team chemistry to help make up for areas of concern. But now he's convinced tha
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Connor_Ferguson said:
T.J. Otzelberger is focused on improving his team's mark from the free throw line this season, and the program's brought in just the pieces to do it.

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T.J. Otzelberger puts a focus on improvement from the free throw line for 2023-'24 season

AMES - Iowa State ranked 320th in free throws made per game a season ago. Obviously, that's a number the Cyclones are eager to change. Iowa State, under coach T.J. Otzelberger, has been focused on creating strong team chemistry to help make up for areas of concern. But now he's convinced tha
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This would normally feed the sit BRE crowd but he actually showed some improvement late.
 
It's wonderful to see the guards/forwards listed can shoot at the line. It's the bigs that really need to get that skill figured out. They were rough...no ugly...last year.
 
We were 321st in free throw percentage last year. Yuck.

Like the article mentions, all 3 of our transfers are good free throw shooters. Pav is excellent.

Paveletzke 84.2% (139 attempts)
Jones 78.1% (73 attempts)
Gilbert 77.9% (104 attempts)

Gilbert and Paveletzke had good free throw rates. CuJo had a poor free throw rate for his usage. Hopefully his added weight allows him to drive stronger. He does have a really good floater though.
 
Cyforce said:
This would normally feed the sit BRE crowd but he actually showed some improvement late.
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When you shoot .293 from FT and improve that to .403 the next season I guess you can call that improvement when the bar was already pretty low to start with. To be honest I'm just glad if he can knock down 1 or 2 when he has to shoot them.
 
Our MBB would benefit from the WBB rules that no longer have the one-and-one. Only NCAA men and boys HS have the one-and-one. NBA and FIBA don't use it. NCAA WBB switched to quarters and got rid of the one-and-one. Would probably suit our MBB defensive style to with the way shooting fouls are determined by quarter and not half. And nobody plays half's and determines bonus like MBB NCAA.

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Maybe ask Emily Ryan what her method is. ;) She's right next door in the other gym and and not going hard because of her leg. 93% last year and team was 80%, good for best in Big 12. Bad news was they were 7th in attempts. That high percent isn't earning you extra attempts in WBB.
 
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CYdTracked said:
When you shoot .293 from FT and improve that to .403 the next season I guess you can call that improvement when the bar was already pretty low to start with. To be honest I'm just glad if he can knock down 1 or 2 when he has to shoot them.
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His numbers late were quite a bit better late then early. He dug out of a hole to get to .403.
 
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