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Originally Posted by jdiggidy
This is interesting but the numbers are a bit skewed too. According to Rockets.com the team average is .727.
If we are talking just about the starting rotation then yes, our ft % is horrible. (.629) If Scola started it would be .697
If you take our highest percentage (Novak - .1000) and our lowest (Chuck 0 .273) out and average the team we aren't that bad. (.698)
It just depends on who you are looking at and how you are calculating the numbers.
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The way you are calculating these percentages tell us nothing about how freethrows are actually affecting our team. You can't simply average the absolute percentages of two players without taking into account the number of freethrows they actually shoot in a game. Tmac shoots 70% and he takes about 8 a game. Novak may shoot 100%, but he takes 1 every 5 games. Simply averaging those two players would give you 85%, which is obviously not indicative of the actual scenario.
I think the 65% that they gave was taking the actual number of threethrows made this season divided by the number of freethrows taken. They simply took out all the FTs that Yao took and made. Looking at it in this light, 65% is pathetic for a team at any level.