Free throws: The strange case of Jason Kapono

Even great free throw shooters can fail when conditions change. Jason Kapono shot over 90% his senior year of high school. In his soph, junior and senior seasons at UCLA, he shot 87%. In his NBA career he shot 84%. But in his freshman season for the Bruins he shot only 68%!

How could that happen? He was unable to adapt in his transition from high school to college, even though he clearly was a great free throw shooter. So conditions matter, whether for a whole season or a single game.

Follow Ups:

• This is NOT an anomaly NorthBruin40 14:48:47 02/20/25 (1)
  • More pressure to fit in and perform, larger venues with some traprh 16:15:34 02/20/25 (0)
• We had a bad news that of free throw shooting. It happens. TheHappyBurgermeister 20:46:33 02/19/25 (3)
  • Re: We had a bad news that of free throw shooting. It happens. FanSince65 21:45:00 02/19/25 (1)
    • Thank you* TheHappyBurgermeister 21:53:53 02/19/25 (0)
  • Should be “we had a bad run of FT shooting” like I said above TheHappyBurgermeister 21:03:30 02/19/25 (0)
• One explanation could be ej 15:53:49 02/19/25 (3)
  • Talk about mental. Garcia hit 11 of 12 from the stripe… Fuzzy 16:55:43 02/19/25 (2)
    • Garcia was very impressive UCLA73 20:35:18 02/19/25 (0)
    • and played the full 40 minutes.* azbruin 17:07:18 02/19/25 (0)
• Good example--in every case though, he still had a great stroke* traprh 15:24:20 02/19/25 (0)

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