HadAnEffectHere wrote:JMAC3 wrote:HadAnEffectHere wrote:Ausar and Amen are the worst shooters in NBA history relative to their position and era.
You have to play them at center on offense, there's no hope here at all.
Way too much whistling past the graveyard from NBA Draft people about how incredibly hard it will be to have these guys fit on any team. How many teams need a rim running SF because they have a pure stretch 5 next to them?
Amen Thompson is shooting 51.9 efg% and Ausar is at 49.2%. Neither great, but far from being awful.
Ausar is 92% def epm, 84% among all players in rebound rate.
Amen is 85% def epm, 87% in rebound rate, 71% in assist rate.
Both are already above 50% epm as players as awful shooters as rookies. Trying to say there is no hope for them is a wild take.
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That's because their shots are dunks.
Which is fine at center and offensive suffocation at literally any other position.
They aren't playing center now and again are shooting 50% efg while playing elite defense, great rebounding and good playmaking.
I agree shooting is great, but if that is your only weakness and you are so athletic that you are still living on dunks as guards/wings then you will be fine. Both are proving to be effective with zero 3 pt shot at all, so yeah if they even get to Giannis level shooting they will be very very very good 2 way players.