I have watched a few clips of our recruits, but can’t find much about their shooting percentages. Clarke, Green, Christopher, Boston, Cunningham and Askew - who are the best shooters? Looks like they all handle the ball very well and their highlights show they can hit the 3 ball (shocker), but what about real stats?
Who are the Good Shooters?
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Boston has incredible range and can get his shot at any time, but he takes a lot of bad shots and his percentage isn't great. I still think he'll be a good shooter for us.
Askew is a good shooter, especially off the dribble.
Clarke is average, but like Boston, can create his shot at any time and has a ton of moves to get open.
Askew is a good shooter, especially off the dribble.
Clarke is average, but like Boston, can create his shot at any time and has a ton of moves to get open.
Askew is an outstanding shooter. Hit .462 from behind the arc in the EYBL circuit. That’s almost unheard of in AAU play. That’s what you see in high school. Cunningham and Clarke are good.
Gonzo: It's always so refreshing to read your posts that are straight to the point and directly responsive to the question(s) posed by the OP -- and are thus by far the most informative posts on this board. Thanks.
We will have shooters the last 2 recruiting classes Cal has made that a priority . Hell this year we have Maxey , Sestina , Juzang and Allen and all 4 of those guys are 40-44% type shooters and that doesn't even include guys like Quick who can really shoot . I used to worry about shooting with Cal teams but he has realized in today's game you must be able to shoot the ball.
Boston is a kid already in the fold who is lights out shooting . You can't look at his % because he takes a lot of bad shots since he is "man" but Cal will fix that and also Boston will just be one of the men here not the MAN.
Boston is a kid already in the fold who is lights out shooting . You can't look at his % because he takes a lot of bad shots since he is "man" but Cal will fix that and also Boston will just be one of the men here not the MAN.
And it's why he might be the perfect partner for Clarke. Clarke's shooting form isn't terrible, but the percentages he put up in the EYBL (3 pt and FT) are the one red flag about him. He's superb everywhere else- a physical specimen with absolute elite athletic gifts, AND with the ballhandling skills (and motor) to make it count.
Askew is not an elite athlete, but he has good size, he has potential on defense, and if he can add 40% from 3 pt range to that, then he's gold.
All the Jamaals are good shooters. I want to know who are the best makers.
You have something against Brad Calapari?
Shooting at the HS level and shooting at the college level are completely different animals. Sometimes you'll see guys explode when they get to college after showing mediocre shooting skills in HS, but then you'll see dome guys light it up in HS and struggle in college.
So there is no way to know until they get here.
If they want to he good shooters, they'll need to get in the gym and shoot every night until their arms fall off, but that's hard to do.
Their 3 point percentages in the aau season, Peach Jam & bracket play included......
Askew: 41%
Boston: 24%
Christopher: 22%
Clarke: 26% (although he was at 34% before stinking it up at 1/22 in the Peach Jam)
Cunningham: 35%
Greene: 30%
Unfortunately you have to take these percentages with a grain of salt because (a) it’s a relatively small sample size and (b) in aau ball, kids are desperately trying to show off and separate themselves from their peers so it makes them take every preposterous shot they can find. My guess is, in college every one of those guys will hit over 30% at least, although I think Christopher is probably the worst shooter of the bunch. Askew seems to be a genuinely good shooter. His percentage was on 99 attempts.
if we still have Dantaie Allen he can shoot it at a Doron Lamb clip
Shooting is also mental, you can recruit all the best shooters in a class but when it's the Elite 8 and you're a Freshman who's never been there before, the likelihood of choking is higher than a team full of upperclassmen.
It's a tough nut to crack for Cal and if I had to guess, it's why he still tends to err on the side of 'get as many super athletic wings as possible and hope it works out'. I would bet he thinks he can always teach defense.
It's a tough nut to crack for Cal and if I had to guess, it's why he still tends to err on the side of 'get as many super athletic wings as possible and hope it works out'. I would bet he thinks he can always teach defense.
Partially true, but NBA scouts do look at it, usually in conjunction with FT%. They're concerned more with the player at 22 than 18, so form and potential to hone the shot are important, but if the player struggles on 3's and FT's, the player is never going to project as much of a shooter.
Kawhi Leonard was kind of famously (now) a bad 3 pt shooter in college (25%), but he wasn't a terrible FT shooter (74.4%). There are a lot of cases of players who couldn't hit 3's worth a crap in college who developed in the pros, but it's rare if the guy was a HS and college dud from 3 and the FT line.
Conversely, though, the truly elite shooters almost always show it at a young age. You don't "develop" a Steph, Klay, or Durant in the pros, they were born with something they developed themselves.
One thing of note is that the EYBL went with a 24 second clock and the international 3 point line this past year. They put these kids in a close to the NBA rule structure, so it's no surprise you saw some ugly 3 point shooting numbers.
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I love shooters and imo Cal never recruits enough of them.
But the bigger question is who us going to get a bucket when it's really needed. Last year, the Cats had a really good option in PJ and a pretty good option in TH.
Someone may emerge but right now no one jumps right out at you.
But the bigger question is who us going to get a bucket when it's really needed. Last year, the Cats had a really good option in PJ and a pretty good option in TH.
Someone may emerge but right now no one jumps right out at you.
Maxey, Juzang, Allen, Quickley, Sestina/EJ when the clock is about to expire and you need a basket to win.