Don't Harp On The Fact That Chances of Getting 2 The Greek Are Slim - The Official 2025 San Antonio Spurs Offseason Thread

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It's interesting that for such a tall player, Wembanyama is an excellent free throw shooter.

He shot .796 from the line as a rookie, and early on this season he's shooting .917.
I would suspect that it's highly unusual for a player to be a good free throw shooter, and be a poor shooter elsewhere on the floor.

@Gil Scott-Heroin you may not be a Spurs fan per se, but I wonder if you're aware of any correlation between FT shooting and FG shooting. Whether there's any predictive factor/correlation there.
 
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It's interesting that for such a tall player, Wembanyama is an excellent free throw shooter.

He shot .796 from the line as a rookie, and early on this season he's shooting .917.
I would suspect that it's highly unusual for a player to be a good free throw shooter, and be a poor shooter elsewhere on the floor.

@Gil Scott-Heroin you may not be a Spurs fan per se, but I wonder if you're aware of any correlation between FT shooting and FG shooting. Whether there's any predictive factor/correlation there.
There's a relative correlation, where touch, pattern and practice are signs that someone with a high FT% mirrors their upside as a shooter, in general; the relative part is one's shot type proclivity, where they might be someone like Kobe, who's a great shooter, but takes shots of a high degree of difficulty which affect his FG%. The same phenomenon can explain some of Wemby's shooting thus far in his career, and the rest can be put down to him:

adjusting to the league
growing into his body (his higher center of gravity makes it difficult to set himself a solid base before shooting, given it's easy to push him around)
finding a 'happy shot place' (where he experiments to find where his best spots are, and then works out the best process of getting to them).
 

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I'm watching Monday Night Football but the box score says Wemby knocked down 4 three pointers in the first half.

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Wemby shot is looking better.

My concerns about his jump shooting may have been too quick.
 
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