Please. Shooting it at what 29 percent for the year?
Does not matter if your wide open, dont do it. Sullinger needs to understand limitations. Bass doesnt take 3s for a reason.
Sully keeps "antoine walkering' it and he needs to go.
I agree with the Bass assessment. I am sure if he tried, Bass could shoot at least 29% from three.
As for Walker, at least he could run an offense and will a team to victory while launching all those threes.
Sullinger Celtic career regular season 3Pt% =
0.282No Sully playoff data.....
Antoine Walker Celtic career regular season
3PT% = 0.333Antoine Walker Celtic career playoff
3PT% = 0.376Paul Pierce Celtic career regular season 3PT% =
0.370Paul Pierce Celtic career playoff 3PT% =
0.339Avery Bradley C's Reg Season = 0.363
His C's Playoff = 0.233
Jeff Green's C's Reg S = 0343
His C's playoff = 0.447
Kelly O = 0.352
Marcus Smart = 0.380
Right now, early in Sully's career, he is worse at the 3pt shot than Antoine was.
The data shows when crunch time / playoff time arrives, Antoine's 3 point shooting as a Celtic is elevated, same goes for Jeff Green the Celtic.
Young players should keep working on his game, to improve technique, repetition, until almost second nature. Young players should never learn to give up.
So far this season, 5 of best teams in the NBA are in the top 6 spots for teams' 3PT FG%.
For the C's future, with improvments in Sully, Avery, Smart, Oly, I feel really comfortable with our long ball shooting. But our guys need to keep practicing. I don't know much about James Young, but he might also be in the mix too.
This season we are one of the 6 worst teams at defending the 3 PT make, but we are one of the top 5 teams in the league at not allowing a lot of 3PT attempts!!!
As a team (ranked 6th in the league) we are not allowing a lot of successful made dunks (maybe our opponents can not dunk very well) or layups (slightly above league average)
So if we are not allowing a lot of 3's, dunks, layups or FTs, then where are the opponents cashing in? Answer = midrange game, not the long 2 either....the "FT line and in" type 2 pointer.
We actually don't take a lot of 3's despite our 2 bigs taking some.....but we RARELY get to the line, so it appears that our opponents are getting to the line way more than us (or it appears the refs have it in for us).......the date is showing that we need to defend the 3 pt makes, particularly the corner 3.
We don't have a problem with opponents taking too many 3s against us, they don't need to, not when they can take a 10 footer or some kind of 2 pointer in the paint which doesn't necessarily needs to be a dunk or a layup.
I don't think we ultimately need a shot blocker, we need postup defenders, on the ball defenders, defenders against slashers, defenders against the midrange area.