Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 3706787, member: 628"]
I've been debating whether to post this, but seems like the right thread for it...

I think the best three point shooter we've had in the past 10 years was probably Andrew White.  I wanted to see how good *and* consistent he was.

I looked at games where he took 5 or more three point attempts (I figure anything less than that gets kind of fluky), and then broke that into (a) great = made 40% or more, (b) OK = made 33-39%, and (c) bad = under 33%.

There were 31 games in 2016-17 where White took 5+ three-point attempts (out of 34 games total), and he was great in 15 of them, OK in 8, and bad in 8.

Result = 74% of the time he was great/OK, and 26% of the time he was bad.

Then there's Buddy. I looked at last season, and this season-to-date. 43 games in total for him, 39 where he took 5+ three point attempts.

Great = 14, OK = 6, bad = 19.

Result = 51% of the time he's been great/OK, 49% of the time he's been bad.  Nineteen times, almost [I]half[/I] of games, he's shot under 33% from three.  Far too much volatility.

I don't like to pile on, and I'll say yet again that Buddy is not the biggest problem with the team.  But he is just not nearly the elite gunner that people make him out to be.  And he's not "a little off".  He's a streaky shooter who, about one-third of the time, goes off.  The problem is that half the time he's sub-par to ice cold.  He doesn't have the floor that our elite three point shooters have had, historically.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?