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(06-04-2019 09:35 AM)dsquare Wrote:  

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(06-04-2019 08:20 AM)RealDeal Wrote:  He isn't going to average 17 a game but I think Jaevin is a candidate to have a huge impact. People look at the rates but it's hard to shoot at a high rate when you're shooting a high volume. He shot 40% while firing 8 3's a game. I saw a scout quote from Jeff Goodman saying Jaeving was a great shooter with deep range. Assuming he's playing with McNeal and Jarron you've got a point guard who was a great distributor last year and one of the best passing off guards in the country. If Jaevin is as good as the scout said and as good as his numbers indicate I could see him shooting well over 40% and us being really scary with those three and Tre. Then you have options of going small Keith or Prince or bringing in Sorolla and going big. Really exciting options.

I'm still not convinced McNeal starts at PG. His stats are pretty bad in terms of three point shooting, FG% and assist/TO rate. I think our starting lineup will be Jarron, Jaevin, Keith, Scott, Diarra. If Diarra can hit threes at a good rate (which he should be able to), that lineup seems very difficult to stop. The defense will have to spread to cover the three and if they collapse there are a lot of good three point shooters to kick out to on the perimeter.

Diarra couldn't even hit 2's at a good rate. 27.6% on 2 point jumpers. It's an extreme stretch to say he can now hit 3's.

He's known as a good shooter in practice and a capable 3-point shooter. His main issue is not having experience playing organize basketball. He was uncomfortable last year and often hesitated to shoot, even good shooters look bad when they hesitate. He has a long way to go, but he has the offensive ability to be a excellent player. He is going to play a lot of minutes out of necessity, so I'm optimistic he will figure it out at some point this season.

In the Hepblade world, no player ever improves or has any abilities outside of his past statistics. Everyone on the board has access to player's past history. You would have been an awful coach. Fwiw, Diarra hesitant to shoot? He probably shot the ball more when he was on the floor than either of the other 2 bigs. His issue is he couldn't defend anyone.

Diarra did indeed have a higher usage rate than all the other bigs at 19.2. Brooks was 18.6, Scott was 16.9, Fredericks was 14.5, and Nsoseme was 10.4.