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Message: [QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 300368, member: 906"] Cooney, a 6-4 guard, possesses a deadly accurate shooting touch. He could give the Orange the game-changing 3-point threat that it lacked this past season. But he will still be a freshman. This is from the first article after loosing to OSU on next years syracuse team from Mike Waters. I don't think our opinions are much different then his. Just a opinion... [U]I don't think its Triche doesn't haven't the confidence. I just think his 3 point shot hasn't reached the level deadly yet, and his isolation game has trouble getting the upper hand on a opponent. I think people mistake that and the lack of grabbing loose balls at times for lack of confidence.[/U] When hes moving without the ball hes as good as any player as we have had since I have watched the last decade. Because, hes pretty solid with a [U]patient open[/U] three point shot, and when he gets a step on his man into the lane he is as dangerous as any driver in the country. I hope he finds the deadly shot or isolation dribble in the offseason though even if thats the only thing he gets better at. IMO I would take that over his senior leadership even, and it would have more chance of getting him drafted. Also we really haven't brought up the stats... Triche soph and jr three point shooting should be looked at. Triche shot 33 percent as a sophmore but took 150 in 1008 minutes As a jr he shot 35 percent but only shot 120 in 834 minutes. That means [U]he only took[/U] 3.5 three point shots on average per game this year while he only took 4.2 as a jr. Compare that to Rautins senior year where he shot 40 percent and took 6.8 per game. The year before, Devendorf shot 39 percent as a jr, and averaged 5.8 per game next to rautins who shot even more 7.5 per game. Gerry took 8.8 three pointers a game his senior year. To be fair James only took 2.9 last year but he had a late run in which I bet he was more around alittle 4 per game if we looked it up. Wes only took 3.5 per game his one year here and KJO averaged 4 per game last year. Do I think Cooney could shoot better then 35 from three or take more then Triche? Its possible. do I think Triche could be a stud this year or for that matter average 6 threes a game? Its possible, but I think he would be better learning to beat his man off the dribble in isolation more b and I could be wrong. [/QUOTE]

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