HadAnEffectHere wrote:I will say that though I never thought Scoot was athletic, him being the 4th worst finisher at the rim in the NBA is pretty surprising.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2024_shooting.html
Only players worse: FVV, old Alec Burks, Jevon Carter. And all of these guys shoot very few shots at the rim as they're mostly shooters.
Only 10 players in the NBA shoot worse than 56.7% at the rim, Scoot is one of the 10 and is at 49.1%
The only changing belief from pre-draft to post rookie year is changing the belief on Scoot's explosion from "below average" to " well below average and actually bad"
This is a terrible take.
Scoot's explosion is actually good. I'd say well above average actually.
Scoot's finishing at the rim is atrocious. It's not because he lacks explosion... it's because he lacks touch. Most of the time it looks like he is just throwing it anywhere near the rim in hopes of getting a foul called. I'm assuming this worked very well for him at lower levels, but it's not working in the NBA.
He needs to spend all off-season working on developing shooting touch around the rim.