Morgan has hit 24 total threes in conference play for his career at IU in 1,104 minutes played. I can see him shooting well this season but it’s hard to say he will be now.
Extreme, extreme example that would never happen. But Player B, over time, is the better shooter, as your terrible example says. Player's A 42% was a complete fluke.
Haarms has hit 1 3 in conference play in his career. That was the comparison. Morgan > 3pt shooter than Haarms.
Again, go look at Oladipo's numbers in college and then into the pros. He shot 30% and under in his first two years at IU and then over 40% in his junior year on more attempts. I don't think it's that extreme. May not be the norm, but it's not like Oladipo was the only one to do this.
Oh, no I wouldn’t say Haarms is a better three point shooter than Morgan. I thought you were just saying Morgan shot 37% from 3 last year in conference so he will be good to go to be a serious threat from there this season.
Or he just became good. Should people have chalked Cuanzo Martin's junior year up as a fluke?
Oladipo also had/has an unreal work ethic. Yes, players can certainly improve.
I was looking at just conference play but that was my point. The total is still so low I don’t think teams will mind letting him shoot it until he proves he can hit them at a high rate and a higher quantity of them.
Not really how basketball works though. You don’t need 5 three point shooters on the floor, you just need a few good shooters that take a high number of shots to space the floor out enough. Also beneficial to bring guys off the bench that can shoot it from deep. You can’t compare position by position, it has to be looked at as a bigger overall picture. Which is why your Mcroberts to Cline comparison was silly.
I agree that Eastern isn’t going to light it up from deep. But, if you are comparing returning players, Purdue leads whether you use last years average or shots made. This is why I say the numbers don’t support IU being better this year. It could happen, but I don’t see Romeo taking his 36% average and increasing it when he is playing against bigger, stronger players or shooting from a line that’s farther out.
Where does your shooting come from outside of Carsen and Cline?
Aaron Wheeler, Evan Boudreaux, Eric Hunter will hit their fair share of threes.
I think you see a dip similar to what Iu had between 12-13 and 13-14.
I agree with EB and Hunter. I disagree with Wheeler. Given that I have two Purdue fan roommates, I've seen Wheeler play in the WUG, this summer for USA, and in scrimmages. He projects as a very low percentage shooter.
And literally the main thing Painter talks about regarding Wheeler IS his shooting. Lmfao.
No one is saying Morgan isn’t a stud. People were just discussing where IU’s perimeter shooting will come from.
Lol he's shot horrible? The last scrimmage he did manage to get to 2-5, but the WUG, the USA games, and the first scrimmage he was bad.
Exactly. That's why I wouldn't be expecting much from Wheeler this season if I were you. He is a guy whose only skill is shooting, and he hasnt done that well.
He shot 40% in the WUG from three but hardly played in general. I think you’re just making stuff up. Seriously everyone has talked about how well Wheeler is shooting it. If he doesn’t play it’s not because of his ability to shoot.
Purdue: 72-175 (41.1%)
He and Ryan Cline had the exact same defensive rating last season at 101.8. Think he’s a fine defender but wouldn’t put him at all big ten level. Eastern was at 96.6 for example.
What was he in Italy? We will see what he is capable of in a couple weeks, but from the games I've watched, he doesn't project as a high percentage shooter. Just like Sasha.
That's not how defensive rating works. How were each of their defensive ratings compared to the team average defensive rating?
No it measures the individual that the player is guarding.
Painter recruited Sasha to have an elite shooter in the class. You’re just not making sense.
You could be an elite defender, but if the guys around you arent doing what they are supposed to, then you will give up points. That's why you look at the individual drating to the team average.
Show me sasha and Wheeler's stats from the WUG, the USA team, and the two scrimmages. I would venture a guess that they both shot below 30% from 3.
