In the last minutes of game 3, I know he missed the second one on purpose but he missed the first one out of pure pressure. This guy has been missing clutch free throws the entire season during 4th period pressure in close games. I live in Dallas right now, but can someone in Houston smack some sense into him so he doesn't blow our future games? Or at least get JVG to not put him in during the end of games when they're just going to foul us. Sura, GROW SOME BALLS AND USE THEM AT THE FT LINE MAN.
Ive noticed the same thing. He had the worst free throw percentage in game three. One of the worst on the rockets team. I think he gonna cost us some games in the future.
Coz he fainted under pressure...joking Seriously, Sura is a role player and he is being paid like a role player. You don't expect a role player to be able to do well in every aspect of his game. Sura's role is to rebound, hustle and score some points occasionally. He has been giving the team all those throughout the season. Until the team can find a better option in the off season, I think we have to live with him missing a few fts in the 4th qtr.
For a team of pretty good free throw shootesrs, I think pretty much the whole team chokes on big free throws. TMac, Yao Ming both good free throw shooters regularly miss fts in the fourth quarter. Same for Deke and most of our guards. The only person I feel cmfortable with at the stripe when the game is on the line is David Wesley.
in fairness to Bobby - Tmac missed two during the 20-0 run AND he was suppose to miss the second (so they Rockets could get another sot at it)
Well actually you are wrong! Players usually tend to bounce back to their normal FT averages sooner or later. It has nothing to do with pressure when it comes to McGrady especially and also Yao. For example: McGrady was shooting nearly 85% from the FT line in the playoffs so far, he has been shooting FT a lot better than his average. His season average is about 77%, so I think sooner or later his average will hold true, he will probably miss afew FTs here and there and probably get back to around 80% or so. I am just not a believer in people missing FTs at the end of the game being somehow more important that FT made at the beginning of the game. They all count equally. Players miss FTs all the time, you just happen to notice it more at the end of the game. I think Sura is the exception on our team, for some odd reason pressure does seem to get to him at the charity line.
04-05 season FT%age in the final 5 minutes of Q4 or OT with a 5 point or less score differential: Barry - 100% (4-4) Howard - 100% (7-7) Spoon - 100% (1-1) Padgett - 100% (1-1) Wesley - 73.3% McGrady - 68.9% Yao - 67.6% Sura - 60% (9-15) Mutombo - 50% (1-2) Taylor - 50% (1-2) FWIW IMHO regarding Sura? If he'd have made 1 freaking more, he'd have a % comparable to Yao and TMac. Big whoop. Much ado about nothing.
There is a big difference between when you miss FTs in the last 5 minutes when you are down or up by 30, from when you are in a close game. If you the game is close, missing those FTs can cost you the game. Sura, Yao and TMac all clanked FTs down the stretch and some of them costed us games. However, recently, Sura seems to be the biggest choker on our team while he's on the line.
Im sorry but you can't sit here and blame Sura or any one person for that 20-0 run and all the misses we had. Sura missed free throws, T-Mac missed 2 free throws during that stretch..everyone missed shots...it was a horrible 5 minutes or so of basketball and we all want to get over it and get ready for todays game. Just cause we lose 1 game everyone is bashing players and say how they suck at this and that...after having a bad game..no one was saying a word about Sura when he nailed the 3's in game 2...everyone was doing their praise... Understand they will have a bad game and hopefully they had their bad game and got it out of their system.
