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ItsThatEasy wrote:http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/2/16/10966798/ben-simmons-nba-draft-scouting-report-jump-shot

Could've posted this in the Ben Simmons draft thread but I really think it's thread worthy.

81% of Simmons Non-Jump Shots are taken with his right hand.
3.8% of Simmons Non-Jump Shots are taken with his left hand.

That's a staggering number. Watching him play you don't really take note of how often he uses his right hand, you just sort of brunch it off as a strength, "he's so ambidextrous". The fact that he converts these right handed attempts only adds to the intrigue. Simmons is shooting 57% on his right handed floaters yet has only taken 4 with his left, missing them all.

What's really interesting is that Simmons has acknowledged this before, stating: "I think I was supposed to be right-handed," but "it's all natural now."

We've seen Tristan Thompson switch from his left to his right in the pro's, do you think it is at all possible that Simmons could begin shooting with his right in the off-season and actually improve as a jump shooter?

laploutocratie wrote:
So are 15.2% of Simmons' non-jump shots taken with his feet?

laploutocratie wrote:

ItsThatEasy wrote:http://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2016/2/16/10966798/ben-simmons-nba-draft-scouting-report-jump-shot

Could've posted this in the Ben Simmons draft thread but I really think it's thread worthy.

81% of Simmons Non-Jump Shots are taken with his right hand.
3.8% of Simmons Non-Jump Shots are taken with his left hand.

That's a staggering number. Watching him play you don't really take note of how often he uses his right hand, you just sort of brunch it off as a strength, "he's so ambidextrous". The fact that he converts these right handed attempts only adds to the intrigue. Simmons is shooting 57% on his right handed floaters yet has only taken 4 with his left, missing them all.

What's really interesting is that Simmons has acknowledged this before, stating: "I think I was supposed to be right-handed," but "it's all natural now."

We've seen Tristan Thompson switch from his left to his right in the pro's, do you think it is at all possible that Simmons could begin shooting with his right in the off-season and actually improve as a jump shooter?

So are 15.2% of Simmons' non-jump shots taken with his feet?

YogurtProducer wrote:I have a buddy who writes left handed, shoots right handed, but does layups left handed and dunks right handed

GimmeDat wrote:I think it's too late in development to change shooting hands, Tristan Thompson is an exception because he only really shoots at he FT line. Ben's form's pretty fluid on his left, I think he'll develop it fine.

E-Balla wrote:

GimmeDat wrote:I think it's too late in development to change shooting hands, Tristan Thompson is an exception because he only really shoots at he FT line. Ben's form's pretty fluid on his left, I think he'll develop it fine.

Same for Ben. The man's taken 35 jumpers all year (12/35) and he took like 1 jumper in the first 8 games of the season iirc.

sixerswillrule wrote:

YogurtProducer wrote:I have a buddy who writes left handed, shoots right handed, but does layups left handed and dunks right handed

But is he incapable of taking right handed lay ups? Does he drive right and then try to finish with his left hand with the defender on his left side?

og15 wrote:

sixerswillrule wrote:

YogurtProducer wrote:I have a buddy who writes left handed, shoots right handed, but does layups left handed and dunks right handed

But is he incapable of taking right handed lay ups? Does he drive right and then try to finish with his left hand with the defender on his left side?

I'm a left handed person in life, write lefty, etc, but I shoot right handed, prefer going left when playing and I finish with my left, but I prefer dunking right handed if going off two feet. My body just does what it does.