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Article: For Tigers, Free Throws Are a Matter Of Attitude; Memphis Has Been Making Them When They Count
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- The Washington Post
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- April 7, 2008
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Chris Douglas-Roberts has a tattoo of Psalms 37:1-3 on his upper
right arm, verses that in sum preach "trust in the Lord and
everything will be all right," he said. Douglas-Roberts taps the
tattoo with his left hand three times before shooting a free throw,
a fitting gesture since divine intervention might be the best
explanation of Memphis's recent success from the foul line.
Using strictly probability and ignoring factors such as who is
shooting the free throws and under what game circumstances they're
shooting them, the chances of a team with Memphis's season-long
history of inaccuracy making 76 of 94 free throws or better is
.00065 percent, or one in 1,538.
But that is exactly what the ...