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Message: [QUOTE="orangefan13, post: 1419118, member: 906"] One thing that just jumped in my mind today about Cooney. Cooney is more of a go around his defender and pull up like Gmac/Dnic type of shooter. Where guys like Devendorf/Scoop/Rautins/Wes Johnson/MCW were likely to pull up while they were facing their defender straight on. I am just curious where does this thinking come from? Sometimes I wonder if this is a psychologoical thing some shooters struggle with. You look at the great NBA scorers of the old days and you see they would prefer to pull up with a man right in front of them, it was second nature to them. Even power forwards and centers. Comparing Cooney to two other shooting guards. I wonder if Rautins ability to throw the ball into the low post from outside helped his one on one shooting game. I remember against butler for example us putting Wes in the low post and as as soon as we did rautins started scoring in the second half from outside and rifled the ball into wes into the low post to score (then we didn't stick with it :bang:). I don't think Cooney will ever develop that but it would be something to atleast attempt over the summer maybe. And I think back to Devendorf he would drive right from the three point line and finish so well with that left around the backboard from 6-8 feet out. Cooney early on in the season last year really,really started to drive more from the perimeter especially going left, and taking it all the way to the rim, but as the season went on that is much tougher to score off of, espeically going parrallel instead of perpidicular along the baseline. Triche and Dion would attack right into the lane. Anyway, Devendorf has maybe 1 inch on Cooney and I do not believe he was faster then cooney or had a much better handle. But his desire and ability to take his man right into the lane and finish with the left hand high off the backboard would be something that cooney could work on more over the summer maybe. Not to mention something that could also really really help Malachi and Howards Games. [/QUOTE]

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