oldncreaky wrote:gswhoops wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:
So its 2025 and we have more in depth shooting data, and Duncan Robinson has some of the most valuable shooting seasons of all-time. It's not just his percentages but also how he can shoot coming off screens at full speed, has an instant release, not a corner specialist or catch and shoot specialist etc...
I know you mean well, but it really is important to realize there are levels to this and it goes well beyond just what percentage you shoot. For but one simple example look at the 3P% for Delon Wright his one year in Dallas -- 37% very solid. Davis Bertans over two partial seasons in Dallas shot 36% and 39% respectively. Or about the same. Yet I can assure you Bertans was creating infinitely more space because of how scared teams were of him because of his size, the fastest release in the world, his ability to shoot from well beyond the arc. etc... Wright would have wide open 3's in the corner and hesitate and teams just yawned.
Juzang may be a useful piece for the Wolves. I hope he is, but Robinson is not just a random shooter. There is a reason he has gotten the contracts he has. Robinson is much more like Kyle Korver than he is Juzang.
Agree with all of this, which is not to say that I dislike the Wolves adding Juzang as an end of the bench guy. There's certainly value to a guy who can reliably hit C&S 3s, especially one like Juzang with decent enough size to survive on the wing.
My favorite example of this: Draymond shot almost 40% from 3 in 23-24 (39.5%), but it wasn't like teams were suddenly sprinting over to close out on an open Draymond 3.
Yep, context matters.
Jacob Poeltl is a career 43% on 3s (no lie, no green text)
The inescapable conclusion is that Poeltl is a better 3pt shooter than Steph.
