I think that people didn't give enough thought into the human player beforehand. Many teams may have disregarded it, think of it as "basketball shots" and not practicing previously.
It is also harder than it looks. I shot for our team once because our HP was helping to work on our robot, it was a practice round, and we had to send someone so I ended up going. I made one out of four

. I guess it's good i wasn't the HP.
It does add another element into the game though, which is considering HP skill level while picking alliances, which was not as big of a deal last year.