Originally Posted by MNFats
I used FT's as an example. How about the 24 forwards in the league that:
-Played at least 1,000 minutes this season
-made fewer than 30% of their 3pt shots
If I'm allowed to look at all players (instead of just forwards) it jumps to 57 players. That's 20% of the guys with 1000+ minutes shooting in the 20%'s or lower. If 20% of people won the lottery, I would play it too.
Two follow ups:
- Kostas is 20. He has time to develop a mid-range jumper and his FT% will improve.
- No, Ben Simmons can't shoot. He has elite skills at getting to the basket and finding open players. He is incredible at those two things. Dude was 0-11 from 3 this year and sub 60% FTs. He will get better.
So now it's the "I know these 57 guys" theory.
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The NBA, as a whole, shot about 36% from 3 this year. So. . . what'd ya expect?? That everyone in the league shot 30% and Steph Curry dragged the average up to 36% all by his lonesome? Of course some guys shoot in the 20's. But here's the question: how many of them is it because
they can't shoot?
Oh, but Gazoo, if they could shoot, they would! Right? Uh huh. All those guys can shoot in warmups. Swishes left and right. Kostas hits the side of the backboard in warmups. Big difference: one is because it's hard to shoot against NBA defense and one because they just can't shoot.
We shall see how his shooting improves over time, as well as Ben Simmons.
