From FiendishOC His full 3pt shooting splits by defender proximity from last season: Wide open (6+ feet): 1.2 attempts, 47.3% Open (4-6 feet): 2.0 attempts, 30.3% Tight (2-4 feet): 0.8 attempts, 27.4% Very Tight (0-4 feet): 0.1 attempts, 37.5% From GoldenThroat: Really looking forward to seeing him in the new system. He does a good job of setting & using screens, cutting, and spotting up, all of which bode well for next season. I think he's really gonna thrive in this style.
That's a high school gym so he's not knocking down NBA half court shots like that, but it's still a good 28 feet or so which is well behind the NBA line. And 15 in a row is no joke. What I'm loving is the quickness and repeatability of the motion. If he can translate that to in-game success I think we're in for a huge year out of Jordan offensively.
Is the floating forward on the shot anything to be concerned about? Does that have to do with his far better percentage when wide open?
I don't know if it's anything to be concerned about; if anything, as @therealdeal pointed out he's repeating the same motion, so if he's wide open or in a very tight space that motion should be the same consistent shot form he uses at ALL times.
He was pretty bad at the drifting the last two years. It's just nice to see him with that quick trigger.
OK. All you shooters out there that could do the (to me) seemingly almost impossible backward leaning and jumping beyond the arc 3 point shot out there, like Mike and Kobe ..... which is more difficult to score with against a slightly or even more than slightly taller and good defensive player? Mike and Kobe's way mixed in with a lot of great footwork setting them up ..... or this "new wave" attack forward, then abruptly stop and jump back 2-3 feet and rise up jumpers from beyond the arc? And harder long term on the knees and legs between the 2 approaches? Seems to me pulled from my b*** that the Clarkson and many others "new wave" approach would be maybe even more strenuous repetitively in a game to pull off and shoot accurately than Mike and Kobe's preferred backward leaning Js?
Yes. To me it is and goes to my question of why an athletic guy like Clarkson with "manly" calves and decent jumping ability would not choose the Mike - Kobe dribble / footwork setup / backward leaning shot to the best of his ability. Like Clint Eastwood would say, "A Clarkson should know his limitations and shoot the backward leaner instead when under pressure from only as far out as he can handle it." If wide open, like these nobody in front of him shots he seems to be practicing .... then at least go straight up. Otherwise all the work he's putting in with repetitions seems to me is setting him up for nothing but sprained ankles in the future. The defender doesn't even have to be a d*** and walk under him like Dahntay Jones or Reggie Miller on Kobe. He'll land on them instead once in awhile at the least. You can't jump that far forward as a matter of habit in the NBA repeatedly. What the H?
