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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 1217432, member: 1452"]
Ok so somebody correct me on this if I am wrong but I believe that all of Cooney's 3s (the 4 makes) on Tuesday were all situations were the ball was thrown out to him and he stepped into the shot as opposed to curling off the screen, catching the ball and shooting.

Historically, with no post-up game to speak of and Cooney being face guarded , the only way to get him a shot was to curl him off a screen where he would catch and shoot.

At the Iowa game, there was that exact play where it just so happened that, as Cooney came off the scrreen, caught the ball and rose up to shoot there was a straight line from our seats through Cooney to the rim.

It was clear as day that he was going to miss.  As he rose up with the ball his body kept moving left and I could tell from the second the ball was released it was off target.  Sure enough, the ball caroomed off the front-left side of the rim.

Here is my question: Is it possible that Cooney is just not a very good shooter curling off a screen and that Xmas' post-up game may actually allow him to catch and step into some threes and that that fact alone may help him become a better shooter?

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