NBSA - National Basketball Shooters Association: Perfecting The Free Throw
The National Basketball Shooters Association (NBSA) enhances individual enjoyment of basketball by providing tools for improving free throw shooting for basketball enthusiasts worldwide.


CLATSKANIE, OR, February 11, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The NBSA (National Basketball Shooters Association) is a new basketball game in town. Well, not exactly a new game, but an organization that hopes to change an aspect of the old game that has gone virtually unchanged for a long time - over fifty years.

NBSA is the organization for those who strive to improve, or teach others to improve, their Free Throw Shooting. Through NBSA, participants can access the path to what may be the only element of the only sport "Where Perfection is Attainable."

Despite the ever-increasing popularity of the sport of basketball, one of its fundamental skills - Free Throw Shooting - hasn't appreciably improved, and in fact, has declined. Free throw shooting has become a lost art, an instructional stepchild to slam dunks and 3-point shooting.

For instance: Since the mid-1960s, college men's players have made about 69 percent of their free throws - the unguarded 15-foot, 1,2 or 3-point shot awarded after a foul. In 1965, the rate was 69 percent. In 2009, it was 69.1%. It has dropped as low as 67.1 but never topped 70.

Women's NCAA Division I high was 1992 - 67.3%. They declined to 66.4% in 1997 and have remained level.

Free Throw Percentage in the NBA for all players is just 72.8%. In 1989-90, at its highest, the percentage in the NBA was 76.4% for all players.

It is estimated that the high school free throw percentage across the board, nationwide, for both boys and girls, is less than 60%.

While the free throw is one of the most important skills in basketball, surprisingly, every skill in basketball has improved except the free throw. Free Throw Shooting is often ignored by mainstream basketball coaches - many enamored with their own "X's and O's." And Free Throw Shooting is equally ignored by players who covet 3-point shots and slam-dunks.

But increasingly, Free Throw Shooting wins or loses close games. Everybody wants to step to the line and knock down their free throws - especially in the 4th quarter, down the stretch, with the game on the line. Some believe this is sports most pressurized moment - when the athlete is challenged to make an unobstructed, unchallenged shot.

Free throws become exponentially more important in the closing minutes of games. In the final quarter of any basketball game, making free throws not only becomes a team's primary weapon for scoring points, but making free throws ultimately spells the difference between winning and losing. In a close game, the team that successfully makes more free throws near the end of the game is almost always the team that wins.

The National Basketball Shooters Association (NBSA) enhances individual enjoyment of basketball by providing tools for improving free throw shooting for basketball enthusiasts worldwide. NBSA creates opportunities for members to actively test and improve their skills through participation in sanctioned tournaments and clinics, while also providing instruction for, and certification of, coaches.

NBSA is a non-profit community of basketball free throw shooting players, coaches and manufacturers with a Board of Directors and by-laws consistent with its mission.

NBSA founding members and honorary members own, or have owned, numerous world records for free throw shooting. Among founding members we have those who are published and those who have recognized status in collegiate basketball. Together, as a group, we have several hundred years of coaching and playing experience, and we have those who are recognized for their shooting teaching skills and free throw competitive results.

NBSA's Founding Members have proven - by accomplishment and without doubt - that success at shooting free throws can be achieved by anybody with two important caveats: (i) proper instruction, and (ii) willingness to work.

The NBSA believes that basketball players of all abilities desire to improve their skill levels, especially shooting. NBSA further believes that Free Throw Shooting is a skill more specialized than generally understood and that the potential for improvement among players of all ages and ability is significant.

NBSA will conduct a substantial, national promotional campaign to stress the importance of Free Throw Shooting and to position NBSA certified coaches as the most reliable people to assist players in developing their Free Throw Shooting skill.

NBSA will formally be launched to the world by the time the NCAA Men's Final Four is held March, 2010.

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