SelbyCobra wrote:The crazy part of KAT taking threes like he does is that, when he hits them it still feels like a "bonus from the center" or a huge shot of some sort, and it's decidedly not. KAT isn't just a "great shooter for a big man", he a great shooter - no qualifiers. I think it's going to take me a good while to fully adjust to the fact that we're not talking a about a 7 footer who can shoot, were talking about a shooter who happens to be 7 foot.
Just last year KAT shot 41.6% from three! We're talking a higher percentage than Durant, PG, Kyrie, and Steph. And this isn't a guy like Porzingis or Horford on the Celtics who is fed threes as a stretch outlet for the big scorers, this guy IS one of the big scorers, too.
I can know all of this intellectually and still be conditioned so deeply to not accept that kind of shooting ability from a big man. And yet here we are with 20+ PPG scoring bigman who is also unquestionably a true sniper.
