Are you being contrarian just for kicks or what?
He's 34% career from three (and he's been about 37% for the last five years). The breakeven, statistically, for a player to earn the green light is about 32.5%
He's also been double teamed for his entire career.
He was not a great shooter as a rookie. This post was about comparing rookies, perhaps you did not understand that or read the whole thread. It really has nothing to do the improvement in his shot or the last five years. It was about rookie LeBron to rookie Simmons. Not been in the league 10+ years LeBron against incoming Ben Simmmons.
You can post all the stats in the world but yours are not in the same context as the OP. Which makes them utterly irrelevant.
If you've got a bee in your bonnet go take a walk. You just quoted me without including the pearljammer10 quote to which I was directly responding. Also, for what it's worth, the OP on this thread is chambers, who hasn't weighed in one way or the other about how well Lebron James could shoot it.
The argument goes "Hey, look, Lebron James-- like Ben Simmons-- wasn't a great shooter when he was a rookie. Based on that data point, maybe we shouldn't assume that shooting will be some kind of achilles heel that undoes Simmons' potential for greatness." Pearljammer10 wants to take things in some other direction by rejecting the premise that Lebron is or was ever a good shooter.
Which is obviously wrong and should be corrected.
So I corrected him.
I said (as does the video, save Griffin) that at the same age, the comparison players all had some kind of shooting ability. Lebron at Simmons age was a 29% 3 point shooter. At age 20 he was a 35% three point shooter on 4 attempts a game.
Right now at 19 years old and after 758 minutes played, Simmons has attempted exactly three 3 pt shots this season. Vs High school athletes he shot 29%, but from a high school three and with even more of a size/athleticism advantage. To go from 51 attempts in a high school season to 3 attempts after 22 games in the NCAA is not the sign of someone with capable shooting ability.
The common critique on Ben is that he doesn't have anything that even resembles a mid range to 3 point game, and I think it's fair to say that these comparison players all have better shooting games than Ben did at this age.
Don't get me wrong, if we get the #1 pick, I'll gladly take Simmons.
Some people just seem to think he's the answer to the Celtics championship dreams- but he's a looooonnng way away from that.
Anyway my argument is that unlike Lebron and Beaseley, Simmons doesn't have anything close to resembling an NBA caliber jumpshot. Some argue that it needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from scratch.
Again, would gladly take Ben with #1, but he is a poor shooter with terrible form and will need to, and likely will, work very, very hard on that jumpshot to become a perimeter threat and draw defenders out in the NBA.