Clank goes the free throws
Evidently, when a basketball team struggles at the free-throw line, it is only a concern when the team loses.
In close losses to TCU and New Mexico, the Cowboys struggled at the line. Looking back, if there is one thing that cost them the wins, it was probably poor free-throw shooting.
On Wednesday, if the Cowboys had shot free throws like they did against TCU and New Mexico, they would have likely been up by double digits down the stretch, rather than the game going down to the wire in the 75-69 victory.
"It's kind of like how it was the last few games. If we had made our free throws, those would have been games that we would have had wins," Wyoming sophomore Adam Waddell said.
They were head scratching, mind boggling bad at times on Wednesday at the charity stripe. Free throws were not free.
Wyoming had to hit 7 of 9 down the stretch just to get over the .500 mark, finally settling on 23 of 44.
Forty four attempts were more like it, as Wyoming is one of the top teams in the country in free throws attempted. Twenty three makes, however, don't really cut it.
“There's no question that if you miss that many free throws, you put yourself behind the 8-ball,” Wyoming coach Heath Schroyer said. “We made enough to win, especially down the stretch, which was big,”
True and true.
For a while, though, it was hard to watch. Wyoming was 7 of 20 from the line at one time. For some strange reason, the Cowboys were ahead despite those shooting woes. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Somehow, the Cowboys survived, and that's a good thing.
"Coach said he has never been part of a team that has missed 21 free throws and we won,"said Waddell. "We battled back and that is definitely something we are going to keep working on, keep working on."
And if these free-throw shooting woes continue, then it will be time to get a little worried.
"We made just enough to win," Schroyer said.
In close losses to TCU and New Mexico, the Cowboys struggled at the line. Looking back, if there is one thing that cost them the wins, it was probably poor free-throw shooting.
On Wednesday, if the Cowboys had shot free throws like they did against TCU and New Mexico, they would have likely been up by double digits down the stretch, rather than the game going down to the wire in the 75-69 victory.
"It's kind of like how it was the last few games. If we had made our free throws, those would have been games that we would have had wins," Wyoming sophomore Adam Waddell said.
They were head scratching, mind boggling bad at times on Wednesday at the charity stripe. Free throws were not free.
Wyoming had to hit 7 of 9 down the stretch just to get over the .500 mark, finally settling on 23 of 44.
Forty four attempts were more like it, as Wyoming is one of the top teams in the country in free throws attempted. Twenty three makes, however, don't really cut it.
“There's no question that if you miss that many free throws, you put yourself behind the 8-ball,” Wyoming coach Heath Schroyer said. “We made enough to win, especially down the stretch, which was big,”
True and true.
For a while, though, it was hard to watch. Wyoming was 7 of 20 from the line at one time. For some strange reason, the Cowboys were ahead despite those shooting woes. I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Somehow, the Cowboys survived, and that's a good thing.
"Coach said he has never been part of a team that has missed 21 free throws and we won,"said Waddell. "We battled back and that is definitely something we are going to keep working on, keep working on."
And if these free-throw shooting woes continue, then it will be time to get a little worried.
"We made just enough to win," Schroyer said.
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