High School

50% field
74% free throw
30% 3 pointers

College

45% field
78% free throw
37% 3 pointers

I was a 4 man in high school and a point guard in college.

oh..this is all time...well i would say its about 30% or so.

0-10 probably around 10%
10-14 around 25%
15-18 around 40%
19-21 around 60%

from age 18-21 in college you practiced a ton of free throws and short shots. You did not mess around as much.

~8%

 

Originally Posted by TheWacoKidd

LMAO, that's absurd dude. no

too hard to estimate, but I will just say mine is higher than most.

I was so wet.

Factoring in every single time i've shot a ball at a hoop, which is like a toddler through now, and definitely being an above average shooter, I still couldn't believe anything over at most maybe 20%. Think of how many shots you miss from the time you're like 4-12 and all of the times you've chucked full courters for an hour and i think it is lower than people are guessing.

 

Originally Posted by Scheps93

Factoring in every single time i've shot a ball at a hoop, which is like a toddler through now, and definitely being an above average shooter, I still couldn't believe anything over at most maybe 20%. Think of how many shots you miss from the time you're like 4-12 and all of the times you've chucked full courters for an hour and i think it is lower than people are guessing.

i think for every time i've chucked half/full-courters, i've done twice as many mikan drills and 10x as many free throw drills. and i think those would easily make up for the toddler shooting, too.

hell after thinking about it, i may have been low in the 35-40% guesses. i practiced dunking almost as much as i did throwing crazy shots up...and i think my college % was actually higher than 55% when i think about it. might have been up near 60ish.

who knows.

I know for sure that I am 0 for 1 when shooting at the other teams basket, basketball was never much fun after that.

 

Originally Posted by Skyroller

The OT superhuman athletes are about to come out.

Read two replies than this... LOOOOL so spot on. Everyone in OT shoots NBA percentages and has an IQ of 145.

Until you get to the 'how longs your drought been' thread and the hopeless geekiness of ot truly shines through.

Diggity D is cooler than you.

 

Originally Posted by Scheps93

Factoring in every single time i've shot a ball at a hoop, which is like a toddler through now, and definitely being an above average shooter, I still couldn't believe anything over at most maybe 20%. Think of how many shots you miss from the time you're like 4-12 and all of the times you've chucked full courters for an hour and i think it is lower than people are guessing.

I distinctly remember the first time I shot a basketball. I was about 8 or 9 and it was some older guy's full sized basketball and I was at the court with my Dad. I remember how suprised I was about how hard I had to shoot it to get it to the height of the basket. I shot about 5 until I made one and I walked off the court (fuck started off at 20%). The next time I played basketball I was about 13 or 14.

I think most would be suprised about how unpopular (more like non-existant) basketball was in the 1970s and early 80s. No nerf baskets, no pretending to be some NBA star in my room, no NBA jam, etc...

 

Originally Posted by TheWacoKidd

seriously tho, think of all the Mikan drills, all the free throws (I was 90%+), all the lay-up lines in warmups, etc... for me I think that definitely balances out the fucking around that I did.

mine has to be in the 40% range

No way you're lifetime 90% from the line

Does anyone here currently coach a team? Or have a son/nephew on a high school/college team? Would be cool if you could ask them to track it for a week to see how many shots they take in a typical week of practice.

I stopped playing organized ball when I was 14 and it was never serious so never more than 2 practices/week, and the season only lasted 4 months or so. So the vast majority of my shots were taken in my backyard, but for more serious ballers obviously more were taken in a structured setting. And I don't even know what a typical high school practice looks like and how much time is spent on shooting vs other skills.

 

Originally Posted by SevenCostanza

So the vast majority of my shots were taken in my backyard, but for more serious ballers obviously more were taken in a structured setting. And I don't even know what a typical high school practice looks like and how much time is spent on shooting vs other skills.

Most of my shots didn't go up in practice, actually very little of practice was spent on shooting, you were expected to work on that during the off-season. Most time we would spend on shooting is like 1-2, 10-15 minute drills.

The reason I could track my shots is because my daily shooting routine consisted of a specific # of shots from specific areas and off specific moves, thus totaling is a specific #. By the end of my career 1k shots/day was a pretty routine thing in the off-season.

 

Originally Posted by TheWacoKidd

I was on the Larry Bird plan.

I bet your J was silk

ya basically same type of shots, although didn't include layups and free throws in my daily shots #s, worked on various ballhandling drills as well......lmao 10 free throws in a row b4 I left the gym was a MUST, I would get anal about that shit, make my ride wait etc...thinkin about it thats weird u did that too, musta seen that from some common source cause I can't rem why I started that

my favorite shooting drill that IMO helped me the most (I am basically 5 10) was my friend who was about 6'4 would get up on me and I had 1 dribble or none as I got better and would have to get my shot off on him...we worked together a lot, it made me pull my shot behind my head and made it reallllly hard to block my J

another thing people ITT don't realize is how high of a % you shoot when you shoot daily like this, watch Pros shoot w/o defenders, they don't fucking miss, you make a high % of shots when you have daily shooting routines, and shear volume overcompensates for your lack of shooting ability at an early age