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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 3232743, member: 767"]
Yeah, he really benefited from being given all the minutes he could handle (and then some).

You actually shorted him, he played 38.1 MPG as a freshmen!  (His minutes % was 7th in the country, though only third on the team).  He shot 35.4% from the field, which almost feels like a misprint, until you remember watching him play.  He shot 36.6% from two as a freshmen, which considering his size, really does feel like a misprint.   The only thing that saved him that year was he did draw a ton of fouls, and shot 79% from the line.

But really, 36% on 2 pointers?  How is that possible?

If you combine his 2 point shooting (44.5%) from his soph year with his 3 point (33.1%) and FT (78.7%) from his freshmen year, you'd have something reasonable.  Assuming he took the same number of attempts of all 3 as he did in his 2 years, if you do that (I'm being told you can't in fact do that), you get a career Effective FG% of 46.3% (actual 42.2%) and career True shooting of 55.6% (actual 48.4)
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