Not the tweet. It was from May 8th. On the 9th I heard he shot even more. OK I thought today was the 9th. This month is going by too fucking fast.
Great to see that he's already hard at work. My arm would be dead tired after tossing up that many NBA three's.
I bet he bricked the fuck out of the 413 misses. I can see defenses just letting him throw it up like with Andre Miller and me shouting obscenities every time it happens.
Well yeah if he does not improve, but isn't that the reason he is working so hard on this part of his game? So they don't back off of him? If he keeps working that hard on it he will get better. I don't think Andre really worked that hard during the off season. Of course that may be part of the reason why he never got hurt. That and his 1 inch vertical leap.
While I admire him trying to better his game, I would rather he focus on areas of his game that are closer to being usable.
I agree shooting barely 54% unguarded with someone feeding you the ball in rhythm, especially for a professional basketball player, is pretty lousy. I would expect Babbitt to hit at least 80% of those, maybe 90%, and we all know he sucks. It's good he's working on improving his three point shot. Unless he can hit an open shot his drive is going to be scouted and cut off pretty quickly. I hope he spends more time on his midrange game and on driving and dishing, though.
I don't know BBert. That's a lot of shooting. I don't think anyone could keep up an 80-90% clip on 914 shots.
To me his three point shot is his biggest offensive weakness. And to play SG in this league don't you have to be at least decent at it? I think it is definitely a usable weapon for his position. I look at guys like Jason Kidd and Magic Johnson who were god awful 3 pt shooters who worked hard during the summers to improve and eventually being pretty good at it. No doubt Barton has quite a few weaknesses, but IMO he needs to increase his range to help with his slashing abilities.
Martell Webster once went 1000 for 1000 in a Blazer workout, and because of it, the Blazers didn't draft Chris Paul.
#workoutwarrior What's worse: trading down to draft Martell or passing on Paul because we had Telfair (I realize it's all connected, but overall, which piece was the worse view, I guess is what I'm asking)?
As I recall that was one of the arguments used last June on this Board for why NOT to draft Lillard. The dude could not miss in that video. Yet people dismissed it.
Lillard had success at the pre-draft combine, and had a ton of film from college, though. Webster was a HS kid who never, ever should have been in the draft. Had the one-and-done thing been in place then, I'm guessing Webster would have had a rather mediocre season at UW, or wherever he went.
I think getting to 30% next year would take major work. Hopefully he is in agreement with the coaches in what is going to make him a productive player the quickest.
