Lmao, you're literally saying Solomon Young needs to shoot a certain % from 3 to keep his job?
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in quite sometime.
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Lmao, you're literally saying Solomon Young needs to shoot a certain % from 3 to keep his job?
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in quite sometime.
The only way his role diminishes is if he plays 37 minutes instead of 38.
I would be okay if Solomon shot 0% from 3 for the rest of the season! We need him getting the ball near the basket.
Oh, you couldn't get the point of that. This will be a pointless debate.
That's where I'm at. I'd rather have him be really reliable with the occasional shot from 15-18 and do most of his work around the basket than worry about him being decent from 3. Solo is on pace for ~30 three point attempts this year and I don't see that increasing drastically next season. Even if it goes to 60, the difference between 20% and 35% is 9 makes. Those would certainly be nice to have but spread over thirty-some games it's not really worth getting worked up over and I don't think it's a major factor in discussing his playing time at this point, especially when we don't KNOW if Jacobsen is actually going to be vastly better. If I'm looking for a percentage to go up, I'm more concerned about his free throws than his 3's. For the record, I think both improve as he matures and gains confidence.
I think you will see just how valuable Solo is defensively when we play TCU tonight.
Prohm said during the season that one of our sit out guys would be starting if he was eligible? That sounds like something he would never say actually
I missed 8 pages of this thread. We're talking Jacobsen over Young? No thanks.
If you look at the numbers over their first two years, Jacobson slightly better. I imagine they will get pretty equal minutes next year.
I heard an interview with Solomon where he talked about working on his 3, so it seems that he wants to be taking them. However, I don't really want him to be doing it, except as a way to pull a defender away from the basket.
That's so wrong. The difference is 9 makes plus you cannot let a 35% guy get that shot off. At 20%, you let them go all day. It opens the floor, it pressures his guy to defend the perimeter, it changes how they have to defend him on the PNR, it changes how many bodies are inside with Lard, it changes on how hard his guy can help on the other guys on the perimeter in various situations, and it changes the personnel another team can defend him with. Right now, it doesn't matter if he's outside. You let him shoot until his hearts content. If he's shooting somewhere north of 33% or so, you can't let that happen, not to mention if you do, we will be more productive. That 4th guy being able to shoot is a really big deal in today's game, especially with an offense based on movement. Right now, that option isn't on the bench so he's fine. Next year, that may not be the case.
Listen to the Cyclone Insider from 1-10. Randy says that a few days before they were talking to Prohm for a half hour on the side and Prohm was talking about how much he loves Jacobson and said that he would be starting.
Agreed.
Even a 30% 3 percentage starts to have to be respected. That is like 45% from 2 and you wouldn't let a guy who shoots 45% from 15 feet take them uncontested all night long.
Youre overthinking things. He averages around 1 3-pt attempt per game. Him chucking up 3s next year isnt going to make or break our season.
He isn't overthinking it. Having a real threat at that position totally changes how teams have to defend. And if they don't change in a game he will be attempting a lot more than 1 three in that game.
15 shots isn't even a real sample size to determine anything.
So let's say he makes even 2 more of them, he's up to 33% instead of 20, now let's say 2 of his misses were just bad luck that bounced in and out, so all of a sudden he needs to be guarded closely at the 3 point line instead of sagging off on him?
Makes no sense. If he had chucked up 40 or 50 by now it might be a different story.
So let's say he makes even 2 more of them, he's up to 33% instead of 20, now let's say 2 of his misses were just bad luck that bounced in and out, so all of a sudden he needs to be guarded closely at the 3 point line instead of sagging off on him?
Makes no sense. If he had chucked up 40 or 50 by now it might be a different story.
We average 84 shots per game and you guys are losing sleep about 1 shot per game from our big guy.
Doesn't make sense to me but continue blowing things out of proportion.
Doesn't make sense to me but continue blowing things out of proportion.
