Chuck's FT % is higher on the road because he only shot 89 free throws the entire season. So the sample size is not big enough and causes that 20% difference.
I'd say that sample size is more than adequate to draw conclusions, especially when there's a 22% differential.
The 22% differential doesn't prove there is enough sample size, because it's weird to have that big of a differential. For example, if you shot 1/2 fts at home and then you shot 0/2 on the road. That's a 50% difference, how does that show the sample size is enough? You can argue that 89 number of fts are enough draw conclusion, but that's just about 1 FT per game. Way too little to be consider valid in my opinion.
chuck hayes is actually a good free throw shooter. he has a soft touch. also his his awkward release makes everyone jumps in the lane before he shoots so when he misses he gets another try. and wow, the jazz are AMAZING shooters at home. they do scare me at home.
Yeah the Jazz are tough especially in Utah. Those fans...are a source of great energy and confidence seemingly. It must be nice to have your home crowd that loud when you do something right. It probably goes to show how confidence-dependent the Jazz are. If you can take away their confidence, they suck. Good thing we have HCA.
Some Jazz fans said that Chuck Hayes violates some NBA rule about leaning forward and not shooting the ball,
the rockets cant possibly shoot any worse from 3 than they did in game 2, can they ? anyway, i like our chances in game 3. if we are going to at least split the games in utah, i really hope its game 3
now thats a good point actaully. it would be interesting to see stats for the games they have played against us ...maybe the last couple years even
They didn't play us 41 times on the road either. These are averages over a large sample of games both at home and on the road against everyone. I figure their tendency to hit shots at a higher clip on their homecourt will remain the same when playing against us. We have a great defensive team, so I don't expect the raw #'s to be as high as usual (just like they weren't in the first 2 games) but I do expect them to increase accordingly. The variable here is home and away, because they play the same teams in each of the 2 environments. Make sense?
i did want to bump this post up just because they managed to outshoot us on their homecourt. granted we haven't done ourselves any favors, but these stats were pretty damning for us. hopefully, we can turn it around at home an actually shoot above 40%
