Re: Mercer

[Kim Malo <kmalo19@idt.net>]

At 12:46 AM 5/7/98 EDT, Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu> wrote:
<snip>
>There's a lot of aspects of his game to be improved; many people focus on
>three-point shooting because that's a typical role that a shooting guard fills
>and that Mercer could clearly use some work in. It's not going to make or break
>him as a player.

Fair enough and I agree. The reason for my asking was that a lot of people
seem to think it *will* make or break him.

> As for Kim's point about the three-pointer being a 
>low-percentage shot, to accurately measure that, you should multiply the 
>three-point shooting percentage by 1.5 to compare it with two-pointers.

Yeah, I know. I was going to mention that I realized this, but figured I'd
already been verbose enough <g>. But you still have to shoot 33% to make it
even out, which most don't, and there are other inherent problems with
taking too many of them that I pointed out before.

<snip>
>The other thing that Pitino has mentioned about the three-point shot is that
>when the clock is running down and your offense is stalling, you might as well
>take a low-percentage three rather than a low-percentage two-pointer.

Absolutely. But the problem is that the Cs don't wait until then. They take
way too many early in the shot clock or even at the end of the break. Drove
me crazy.

-Kim
Kim Malo
kmalo19@idt.net