Smith's shooting
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I believe he's setting the offense with a pass first and shoot if it breaks down or late in the clock.
Wasn't aware it was down. How many % lower?
Given the sample size, I imagine 2-3 more makes make it about the same as last year, but haven't looked.....
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At least in the Marquette game, he was forcing shots quite a bit, some off one leg, some over bigs. It was a bad game. I'm not sure what happened against Marshall because I couldn't watch it. I think water will somewhat find its level, but would expect his % to be down from last year because of not having open spaces due to Zach.
I think ppl will have to start playing more drop coverage against the PnR with him and TKR cuz TKR is ABUSING teams right now…according to KenPom, he’s the 8th best player in the country right now.
If that happens, smith will get those open looks he got last year with Edey. We’ve also had more balanced scoring than last year (or at least it’s starting to pick up) so Bearden doesn’t have to shoot it AS much…even though I’d like him to. Interested to see how it looks the rest of 2024.
If that happens, smith will get those open looks he got last year with Edey. We’ve also had more balanced scoring than last year (or at least it’s starting to pick up) so Bearden doesn’t have to shoot it AS much…even though I’d like him to. Interested to see how it looks the rest of 2024.
What I think is amazing is that Heide is hitting 60% of his 3s to date. Obviously, it will come down over time, but still amazing.
Some have seemed forced - he's also taken a few more tough shots. Biggest thing it seems to me is that he's just not in rhythm or set well on a lot of them......still being very productive, but they will need his scoring to be the difference in some of the games coming up.
Shooting 35.3% from deep, but 36.6% overall needs to improve......just over 90% from FT line is excellent.....he will have a lot of key FT attempts down the stretch of games.
When he squares up he shoots well, those off balance , falling sideways or backwards not good percentage shots
Agree. The fact that he can do it is great for late shot clock situations, but they are not the shots that you want.
Still gotta knock em down though. And he hasn’t hit the open ones as much as he did last year. He has tried fading more and while he can hit it, he’s making it hard on himself. Pretty sure he will start to get more open looks once teams go to drop coverage more to stop TKR on the dive from the PnR.
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