03-29-2019, 11:50 AM
(03-29-2019, 10:49 AM)burger Wrote: We were a bad FT shooting team in 2018-2019 (67.2% overall, 298 in D-I), but we were much worse at home. And so were our opponents! Is there still something weird with the rims at Maples?
Stanford: 65.2% at Maples
Stanford: 68.9% on the road
Opponents: 65.3% at Maples
Opponents: 70% when Stanford was on the road
I'd be shocked if there was another team with worse Home-away FT splits.
It's called the "curtain of non-distraction." When FT shooters look out at the vast ocean of non-occupied seats, they get lost in the moment and lose concentration. It's obviously very effective, but, the problem is, unlike ASU's "curtain of distraction," which simply isn't deployed when their own guys are shooting, there's no way to instantaneously fill those seats at Maples for our guys' free throws...
Or, maybe it's just the unusual wind currents that develop in large arenas with nobody in them...