Scoot playing better than rookie Fultz. But if you didn’t watch him play last year, I’m here to tell you Fultz is a good point guard now.
Much of the season? Much of the season hasn’t even been played yet. He started like 2/19 or something like and he’s been decent since then. But we haven’t even played 30 games yet and he was injured for a substantial portion. He’s already up to 25% from three despite the awful start.
He's a serviceable starter, but not even a borderline all-star. That will Scoot's future if he doesn't develop a decent shot.
My point there was addressing the "blow by" percentage. My contention is that he'll drive past more people when teams start respecting his shot.
Very encouraging to see Scoots improvement! I don't want to get my hopes up to high but definitely a little sigh of relief!
For the people who bash Scoot’s shooting, he’s shooting 37% from 3 since he came back from injury. That’s a 15 game sample. For some reason, everyone judges him on his first 5 games.
I think you're looking at his overall %. I'm seeing 17/54, which is 31%. Not good but decent. The problem is, every players overall 3pt% includes whatever cold spells they had. We don't know how much of an abberation his cold streak was. So if you cut out any given players worst games, that only moves the bar as to what a decent % is. But his TS% went up +5% in November and then another +6.5% in December, so it's trending upward. Scoot doesn't really need to become a good shooter in order to become a good player. He just needs to be average.
Yeah, he just needs to be a threat to hit an open three so teams can't sag off of him. What he also needs is to not just pull up off the dribble without getting his feet set... that shit is not falling at this point and most of the guys who are highly effective doing that have a much nicer stroke than Scoot. If he's willing (which he obviously is) and able to make set threes at an average clip then it opens up all of the very very promising parts of his game.
He needs the hard drive to the key, defender on his heels, stop and pop from 8-10 feet, instead of driving into a crowd all the time. Gotta keep the defense thinking and off balance.
Scoot started the season in overdrive, without thinking, and not having the slightest idea what the defense was doing. Now you can clearly see that he's slowed down, he's attempting to read the defense and what his teammates are doing, and he's picking his spots better. He still makes too many bad decisions, but he is definitely getting there. It takes time to become a smart NBA point guard.
Yeah, from half court Scoot took 2 dribbles then 2 steps to the basket. He was already moving pretty fast when he got to half court. It was unstoppable.
This is where he got the ball. Looks like his foot is about 1/5 of the way between the top of the 3-point line and half court and the ball is about 1/3 of the way.
