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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1086094, member: 837"] You need to change your andle b/c I find it hard to disagree with anything STEVEOLT says ;) But I do have to disagree, albeit slightly. I agree that Cooney's shooting in the second half is largely inexplicable. A 'good' shooter wouldn't consistently miss as many open looks as he did for prolonged stretches of a season. It doesn't make a lot of sense. But to say he's in a two-year shooting slump and to intimate that he's a 'poor game shooter' is at least premature, if not wrong. I mean, he hit .375 for the season. Just for reference, GMac bettered that number only once in his career and I think we all consider him a good shooter. Now the obvious counter to that is that his numbers were buoyed by some phenomenal early performances and the ND game in conference. Outside of ND he was largely dreadful in conference play. But it's hard to say those good games don't count somehow. I mean, it's not like they were all cupcakes. Sure, he was 7-for-8 against Cornell, but that was a game we were losing by 6 at the half. He was really good in two of the three games in Maui, great against IU, he was great vs. High Point, a game we were actually losing in the second half. Overall I think he was near or above. .500 from 3 through 13 games. What kind of player is Cooney -- I'm not really sure but I'd suggest it would be every bit as remarkable for a bad shooter to have a 13 game stretch like that (regardless of competition) as it would be for a good shooter to such a piss poor 8-game stretch at the end of conference play. If I had to guess I'd say that the combination of a huge amount of minutes and some confidence issues tanked him in the last month (10 games including the tourney) of the season. Of course, having said that, it'd be crazy not to have some concerns about him heading into this season. [/QUOTE]

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