A God Builds a Castle With Barnes and a Vassell While An Alien Looks For His Ship - The Official 2024-2025 San Antonio Spurs Season Thread
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AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
20 turnovers 
Chris Paul scored the same amount of points as me tonight
Chris Paul scored the same amount of points as me tonight
Yeah it was ugly.20 turnovers
Chris Paul scored the same amount of points as me tonight
At least Wemby jumper looked better.
Vassell looked pretty good in his 1st game.
And Castle showed his ceiling a bit.
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.
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).
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Flex Luger
Job Is Finished
malbaker86
Gators
10 3 point attempts in 2 quarters is INSANE