He was over 50% as a junior and 40% as a senior. He definitely made shots at MVA.
Realistically though, high school and college is always a relatively low sample size just due to shorter schedule, shorter games, longer shot clocks. It can all get wonky. But it was mostly a consensus from my memory that the shot was going to translate for him.
So if youâre just building a shot from scratch, then yes definitely going to teach arc. I always preferred back of the rim as focus for this reason, as well as watching ball after release. All little tricks to get the ball up a little higher. Itâs more common to see someone whoâs struggling with shooting to be too flat, rather than too much arc. Arc gives you more margin for error and more likely to get rim action. But too much arc and you just start removing that margin for error because youâre creating extra distance the ball moves in the air. Sam Hauser on the Celtics struggles with this a ton.
Once guys hit this level of success, itâs a massive undertaking to mess with anyoneâs mechanics. You can genuinely make things much worse. It takes a really long time to adapt to a point where in game, youâre more confident in the new form than you are in what got you there.
Thereâs basic tenets that should be in any shot. Alignment on the strong side of your body from foot, knee and elbow all aimed towards target whether thatâs squared off or shooting leg ahead. Shooting off the finger tips, limiting side to side action, follow through with arm in the rim.
But talent and reps can make up for things and if someone hits shots, you donât mess with it. Youâd never teach anyone to shoot a basketball the way Reggie Miller did, but youâd never change his shot either. All depends how detrimental the unconventional aspect of the shot is. Like, Lonzo Ball has really good touch shooting the ball to where he could time up a left to right motion relatively consistently. But thereâs a ceiling to how consistent you can be shooting like that unless youâre basically Steph. So reworking it made a lot of sense, and he probably hated life for those first few months.
I dk, my familiarity comes entirely from the baseball side where a lot of the success thatâs happened has occurred bc we moved away from verbal cues and toward measured outcome feedback. Ball movement, spin amount, and spin direction measurement, slow motion cameras of ball spin and hand movement, constraint drills to isolate certain aspects of the movement to improve efficiency, etc.
The devices Iâve heard of focus on this stuff but the big success stories are much less reported on afaik.
Iâm still going to believe that line until Roddy Gayle isnât playing at Michigan. Then maybe Iâll realize itâs not true.
valid strategy but mine is the opposite. once heâs gone, Iâll totally believe it next time
But I donât see how itâs easier to inbound from halfcourt. You now have the issue of backcourt violations and your inbounder canât move, whereas he could run the baseline if itâs after a made basket. And since youâre inbounding in less of the court, itâs harder for a receiving player to get a lot of separation.
I suspect coaches advance the ball mainly out of fear of a turnover turning into a quick score. If you turn it over in the front court it may be less catastrophic.
I think the mechanics of a jump shot are just a pretty simple thing at the end of the day. Itâs the same 4 or 5 basic mechanics for everyone, and then things like speed, release point, arc and load up can vary based on whatâs comfortable. The only training, through my own experience and what Iâve seen, is just aligning the basic tenets with an individual playerâs comfortability as much as possible.
Every player in the league shoots it extremely well cuz it just isnât that hard if you rep it hundreds of thousands of times. What separates good vs great at the NBA level is god given shooting touch, and the ability to do the proper shot prep in the really short window that youâre open. The majority of jump shots miss because of misaligned footwork when you catch the ball at an imperfect angle and have to get it up quick.
3 of the Eastern Conference teams have been eliminated, yet the Pistons/NYK are still playing. Aside from refereeing, itâs a great series for the neutral observers. Itâs a physical series. I can see it going to game 7.
Weird fact about the Pistons/NYK matchup this season, the road team is 7-2.
Cade said theyâre bringing it back for game 7.
If the refs had gotten the Hardaway call right, my Pistons in 6 prediction would be looking really good right now.
Itâll be Pistons in 7. Beasley said so and I believe him.