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« on: January 07, 2022, 08:35:11 AM »
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  • I just don't understand how it is that college basketball players, guys who have spent years playing the game, can't make shots from 10 feet or less from the basket.   Open shots! Layups!  As a kid who couldn't get any closer to the basket than you can being 4 feet tall I could make shots that guys that can reach up and grab the hoop.  I really don't understand how they can miss a four foot jump shot.  Even the announcers were kind of stunned by it. 

    POINTS IN PAINT
                             1   2   TOTAL
    Louisiana Tech   14   14   28
    UTEP                   6   6   12

    If you take away Bieniemy's 28 points we scored 24 points in 40 minutes of basketball.  You have to think about that.  Eleven other players were on the floor and those eleven were able to get 24 points in forty minutes.  Another way, other than Bieniemy, there were 140 minutes played by others and in that 140 minutes we scored 24 points.  It is like watching 8 year olds trying to make a basket.  And I just don't understand it.  How can you spend years playing basketball and not be able to make a layup?  I really don't get that.  The women can, but the much taller men can't! 
    This week should be layup week at UTEP.  All week.  If a player shoots a three in practice, send them home! 

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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #1 on: January 07, 2022, 11:44:28 AM »
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  • It's puzzling.  For sure the 10-15 foot jumper is a lost art.  Omar Thomas made an awful lot of his points at that range.  But I see it on playgrounds everywhere I go.  Every kid that can throw the ball hard enough to sometimes hit rim from three that's all they want to do.

    Also, for those guys that can (which should be everyone 6-5 or taller), go up strong and dunk repeatedly in practice.  The drop step is a lost art too, BTW.

    Edited to add:  I mean dunk with both hands.  Not one.  Make the other guy kill you to stop it.  If he's hanging on your arm, dunk him too.
    « Last Edit: January 07, 2022, 11:47:05 AM by SisyphusMiner »

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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #2 on: January 07, 2022, 11:44:45 AM »
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  • EXACTTTTTLLLYYY WHAT I POSTED A MONTH AGO if you remember. These giants can't make a one foot shot and that's pathetic. If I was coach I'd be looking for players that can make their layups and not always going for the three point shot. When a Utep player makes it to the basket for a layup pathetically about 50% of the time they'll miss. Short players are notorious for making layups because that's their bread and butter.

    Midas has to do something about this mess.


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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #3 on: January 07, 2022, 11:48:23 AM »
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  • Midas has to do something about this mess.

    Goldfinger, he's the man, the man with the Midas touch...

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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #4 on: January 07, 2022, 12:03:48 PM »
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  • Midas has to do something about this mess.

    Goldfinger, he's the man, the man with the Midas touch...

    I took his last name and changed it a little to Midas, you know, GOLDING and Midas both have to do with the metal. LOL


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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #5 on: January 07, 2022, 12:19:37 PM »
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  • SMH!

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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #6 on: January 07, 2022, 12:46:04 PM »
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  • SMH!

    No comprende SMH. Elaborate, please.  ;)


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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #7 on: January 07, 2022, 01:37:24 PM »
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  • Smacking my head. lol

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    Re: Shooting
    « Reply #8 on: January 07, 2022, 04:41:03 PM »
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  • Smacking my head. lol


    Hmmm, so that's why you are like you are. You need a helmet.