The free throws don't concern me. I doubt it's something he's put a lot of time and effort into practicing thusfar. If he's a hard worker he'll fix that.
What concerns me are his short arms and the hitch in his jumpshot.
It's overstated. He shot 37% from 3 for the year and 44% over the second half of the year, better than Fultz, Tatum, Fox... all of them. He basically shot it on par with Luke Kennard over the 2nd half, one of the best shooters in the draft.
that's cuz he only shot like 90 attempts.
Didn't LaMelo Ball attempt 90 in a single game or something
We can only use the data we have. If the guy makes 44%, how can we conclude he's a bad shooter, even given a small sample?
We can only use the data we have, indeed, but we should use ALL the data we have, not the tiny fraction of it that makes him look best.
3p: 34/90 (.378 - decent % on low volume)
FT: 98/173 (.566 - extremely bad on twice the volume)
If Jackson were truly a long-term 38% 3pt shooter, or even a long-term 33% 3pt shooter, we would expect him to attempt more than 90 3's and to be much, much, much better from the FT line.
For contrast, Tatum's stats:
3p: 40/117 (.342)
FT: 118/139 (.849!)