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[QUOTE="007, post: 1209768, member: 393"]
As always tomcat, I find most of your takes to be dead on (for whatever that's worth anyway).

I coached the game a long time and I can tell you from experience that the above referenced statement is going to become painfully obvious as the season wears on. This is not "jumping off the ledge," over reaction commentary, or whatever terms of dismissal some people want to use. This team [B]IS[/B] filled with poor shooters, with only a few exceptions. Those shooting percentages are not going to get much better at all with: time, experience, better mechanics, getting in a rhythm, learning to play with each other, getting better shots, having shots fall, luck, whatever. It's not going to happen, IMO.

For the most part, these guys all have good mechanics, good rotation, are not rushing, and are getting good shots. Those would be correctable errors. The tell tale sign is how far off center the misses are. That's a much bigger issue. Sometimes that is a function of strength or fatigue. Most of the time, it is a mark of a poor shooter.

I have heard Booby Knight coach at clinics. One the things he used to preach was about good shooters almost never missing off center by very much. Their misses tend to be a little too short, or rim out. Knight: If you see kids missing way off center, don't let that @cking kid shoot!
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