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[QUOTE="jekelish, post: 1202736, member: 82"]
Right, the guy who led the ACC in made three pointers last season. We have zero evidence he can make threes. Good call.

Look, Cooney is frustrating as hell. I get that. But let's not put him in remotely the same category as two guys who people are just guessing can make threes based on what they've heard about practice.

EDIT: Seriously, I get how frustrating Cooney's inconsistent jumper has been. Right now, he's pretty clearly got some fundamental flaws with his mechanics. But to say there's no evidence he can hit threes in a game is one of the dumbest things I've ever read on this board. I'm not a Cooney apologist, and in fact I've gone on record numerous times about how I think there are problems with his mechanics (when he started hot last year, I said on this forum he wouldn't finish the year above 40%), but some people just go out of their way to tear that kid down. It's absurd.

EDIT 2: Also, in two seasons so far, with most of his attempts coming against crappy competition, BJ is 6-of-29 from three. That's a pretty big sample size, against subpar competition. And I'm not knocking BJ - I think he has a chance to be a Demetris Nichols type, because Demetris struggled a bit early in his career too. But let's not just suddenly assert that he's as good a game shooter as Cooney has been (and, again, that's factoring in Cooney's wild inconsistency, which I again attribute to the flaws with his mechanics and the fact that he's gotten too bulked up so it's killed his fluidity and flexibility).
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