@@Majesticondo you know who the creator was that posted it?
@jerodbradley52533 ай бұрын
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@derrick39133 ай бұрын
bro, stop referring to the mid-range shot as inefficient. That way of thinking baffles me. Shoot the shots you can make. MJ, Kobe, KD, Larry Bird, Olajuwon, etc... had a great mid range game and often the best scorers in the game have perfected the mid range game. Don't disrespect it
@samuelknight8863 ай бұрын
I agree. Way too many people are hung over on 3 point shooting. It is good, with consistent shooting and the shot is going in. But when a player is off, you live and die by the 3.
@brandonmclain29333 ай бұрын
Syracuse beat our ass in the midrange game last year lol
@mike26873 ай бұрын
Is a simple metric-the midrange jumper, even for those proficient at it, is still a made at a modest percentage with a far lower chance of an offensive rebound compared to a long range miss with a long rebound or taking it all the way to the basket and having an easy put back due to help defender vacating the weak side (where most rebounds happen)…. It also yields few drawn fouls. The midrange game also deserves to be divided-the uncontested shot vs the turn around fadeaway have drastically different levels of efficiency. To say the midrange game should be abandoned would be foolish, however, calling it “inefficient” is often very accurate.
@derrick39133 ай бұрын
@@mike2687 , that's sounds educated. Let my simple mind say this. 35 percent from 3 point line is a good (not great) percentage. Shooting 35 percent from anywhere technically is an inefficient shot !! Not to mention ( with the exception of Virginia) long rebounds lead to leak outs and breakaways which most often times can't be stopped. And what my simple eyes have shown me is this: Anyone with a good to great midrange can be impossible to guard !! Show me one guy with a great pull-up mid range jump shot that you wanna guard.A mid range game isn't inefficient, it's the most effective
@mike26873 ай бұрын
@@derrick3913 - that's ok, you're under no obligation to understand something that's already been proven... I'll give that 35% aspect a stab though (just for fun)... 35% over the course of 10 shots equates to 10.5 points just from the shot itself. Midrange jumpers shot at 50% only provide 10 points. A really great midrange shooter is going to be below 60% which means they'd score under 12 points on 10 shots while a great three point shooter is north of 40% meaning they'll score over 12 points in 10 shots. We could do this over the course of 100 shots for better sample sizing but the numbers hold. Plenty of small ball teams are out-rebounding bigger teams with this model BECAUSE of the long rebounds and, especially, rebounding in space outside of the paint. The idea that long boards are leading to fast breaks is overstated--live ball turnovers is the far bigger reason for that. The real point here is that if a team has a great midrange shooter, they should use that as part of their offense but they can't build around it. Funny thing is, the midrange directly benefits from the long rang offense due to the space created around the elbows yet nothing noteworthy (rebounding, drawn fouls, spacing) benefits from the midrange shooter.