Surprisingly bad FT shooters

[Nash]

Do you guys have any you can think of?

I just saw that JR Smith, one of the best 3 point shooters in the history of the game is actually shooting 60% from the FT line this season and is a 73% on his career.

[JebronLames]

Do you guys have any you can think of?

I just saw that JR Smith, one of the best 3 point shooters in the history of the game is actually shooting 60% from the FT line this season and is a 73% on his career.
Chandler Parsons

[TheSilentKiller]

Not crazy surprising, but Rondo's 60% is utterly abysmal for a pg.

[Nash]

Not crazy surprising, but Rondo's 60% is utterly abysmal for a pg.
but rondo is a shitty shooter, we all know that.

[TheSilentKiller]

but rondo is a shitty shooter, we all know that.
a career 47% shooter shouldn't be 60% from the line

[MP.Trey]

Bruce Bowen had a great 3 point percentage but still fell victim to the Hack-a-Bowen a few times. Cavs did the same to Iggy last year iirc. Iguodala is a weird case, he used to be a 75% + guy earlier in his career, seems to have gotten worse over time.

[SouBeachTalents]

Iggy

[tontoz]

Beal is a career 40% shooter from 3, 77% from the foul line.

[no pun intended]

Not surprisingly bad, but surprisingly inconsistent...Tim Duncan's free throw shooting percentage throughout his career is one of the NBA's greatest anomalies of all time.

[Done_And_Done]

Baron Davis was never impressive at the stripe yet could score anywhere on the floor.

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Always figured Bron is better than 74% career. Everytime I think of alltime greats 1-3, they're usually closer to 80. I'm sure someone will post one below 74 and I welcome it. Too lazy to look it up and good addition to the thread.

eta: Pip at 70%. Tho never thought much of him as a shooter.

I don't even get Iggy's FTs. Comes into the league around 75%. Peaks at a very respectable 82%, and then it's all downhill from there dipping as low as 57%. 63% over his last 6 seasons including this year. 75% over his first 6 seasons. He's improved as a 3pt shooter and is clutch af, too. Do not understand.

[VIP2000]

Nick Anderson - after his 4 botched free throws in Game 1 of the '95 finals, his ft percentage plummeted and never really recovered

[hateraid]

Nick Anderson - after his 4 botched free throws in Game 1 of the '95 finals, his ft percentage plummeted and never really recovered
This.
Nick Anderson had a season where his 3pt and ft were almost the same percentage

[Heavincent]

Andre Iguodala. Dependable 3 point shooter, but hovers around 60% from the line.

[kamil]

Bruce Bowen had a great 3 point percentage but still fell victim to the Hack-a-Bowen a few times. Cavs did the same to Iggy last year iirc. Iguodala is a weird case, he used to be a 75% + guy earlier in his career, seems to have gotten worse over time.

He gets paid millions, plays 82 games a year, practices pretty much DAILY.

How the **** do you excuse getting WORSE after so many years in the NBA?

[He Strong]

Iggy
This. You shouldn't be as bad at free throws when you can knock down 3s.

[Smoke117]

a career 47% shooter shouldn't be 60% from the line

43% of Rondo's shots in his career come from 0-3 feet and only 39% of his shots come outside of 10 feet. He's not a good shooter...just the majority of his points come close to the basket where the shots are higher percentage.

[bigkingsfan]

Andre Drummond

[CarlosBoozer]

Dwight, only because his form is really good yet he can't make em consistently

[CavaliersFTW]

Rondo in this era, and Dick Barnett in the 1960's/70's era that I like to discuss.

It's always weird to me when guards can't shoot free throws.

[dunksby]

a career 47% shooter shouldn't be 60% from the line
Yes, Rondo misses a lot of those layups :oldlol:

[Psileas]

This.
Nick Anderson had a season where his 3pt and ft were almost the same percentage

Also, for some reason, he shot an incredibly low number of FT's that season, both for his standards and in general.

[dhsilv]

Bruce Bowen had a great 3 point percentage but still fell victim to the Hack-a-Bowen a few times. Cavs did the same to Iggy last year iirc. Iguodala is a weird case, he used to be a 75% + guy earlier in his career, seems to have gotten worse over time.

Not really, he could hit corner 3's and that was it.

[SexSymbol]

Shooting the 3 is completely different from shooting fts.
the 3 is all legs, meanwhile fts are all arms.

[dhsilv]

43% of Rondo's shots in his career come from 0-3 feet and only 39% of his shots come outside of 10 feet. He's not a good shooter...just the majority of his points come close to the basket where the shots are higher percentage.

Yet didn't he win some kind allstar horse competition?

Rubio is another crap shooter however he's a great free throw shooter.

[dhsilv]

Always figured Bron is better than 74% career. Everytime I think of alltime greats 1-3, they're usually closer to 80. I'm sure someone will post one below 74 and I welcome it. Too lazy to look it up and good addition to the thread.

eta: Pip at 70%. Tho never thought much of him as a shooter.

I don't even get Iggy's FTs. Comes into the league around 75%. Peaks at a very respectable 82%, and then it's all downhill from there dipping as low as 57%. 63% over his last 6 seasons including this year. 75% over his first 6 seasons. He's improved as a 3pt shooter and is clutch af, too. Do not understand.

http://i.imgur.com/zzDr55X.jpg

A few guys kinda stand out there just looking at winshare leaders. Duncan for all his good years, had some crap shooting years. I know he's not a great free throw shooter but sub 70 doesn't look good. Dream was a bit lower than I expected. Gary Payton JUMPS out to me. Charles and David Robinson both are a bit lower than perhaps their reputation might have one think. But yeah big guys can't shoot and guards can. Lebron imo has always been a power forward with absurdly great handles so he played out of position.

[KG215]

John Stockton wasn't a bad FT shooter, but I was surprised when I was on his BBR page a few years ago and saw he was "only" an 83% FT shooter for his career. That's great, don't get me wrong, but he had a couple of seasons of sub-80% FT shooting. I don't know, given how good of an overall shooter he was, I guess he's someone I expected to be in the mid to high 80s for his career from the FT line.

He had three seasons of sub-80% shooting: 73.6% his rookie year, 78.2% his third year, and 79.8% in 1993. He also had a few seasons where he shot in the low 80s: 80.5% in 1994, 80.4% in 1995, 81.1% in 1999, and 81.7% in 2001.

Again, that's still very good FT shooting numbers, but Stockton is someone I just always assumed was a high-80s FT shooter.