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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1344558, member: 289"] The usual points: - Individual players should do what they do best. Kaleb Jospeh is a good shooter from 15 feet, a bad one from 20 feet. It doesn't matter what Steph Curry or Klay Thompson does. - For that reason, the argument that players should be taking three point jumpers instead of two point jumpers applies more to the NBA than college. There are more Step Currys in the NBA, more Kaleb Josephs in college. - Players may be better at the three pointer and worse at the 2 pointers because that's how they practice. If you practice the 12 foot jumper from a particular spots, you'll get good at it. This generation of players has been taught to jack up treys or drive to the basket to score because of charts like the above. Naturally, they are better at that. - It still produces an ugly game where most moves are vertical- toward the basket and into the teeth of the defense- rather than horizontal, where you move or pass the ball back and forth more to get defensive players moving and create some holes in the defense. - I like the point above that you are more likely to draw fouls inside the arc than outside of it. - You are also going to produce more rebounds from three point range, even if the shot is more efficient. And the defensive team gets most of the rebounds. - If the medium range jumper is regarded as inefficient, defenses are not going to defend it, making for more open shots. Look at All those shots Tyler Roberson missed from 10 feet. he didn't miss because he was being guarded there. If he can ever make that shot, it will be a huge weapon for him. Should he dribble it out to the three point line and try it from there because of some chart? Have the guys who are good at shooting from three points do that. Have the guys who are good at taking it to the hole do that. Have the other guys see what they could do in the middle. And anyone could improve his game with a good pull-up jumper. [/QUOTE]

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