Agree, but do you think that him looking to score more often would help or hurt this team going forward?
Does Monte lack confidence in his shooting?
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My post was in regards to his shooting. I should have been more specific and stated his 3 point and mid range shooting.
Don't know his 3 point percentage, but I would assume it is not very good. He is pretty good with his floaters, and near the basket. Not a huge deal and I suspect he will get better next year. Part of his issue this year is that he is playing so many minutes, and I think he is getting worn down.
No problem with any of his two pointers. The threes looked like they wavered to the side a bit.
CycloneErik
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Should we set a schedule for each player's thread? There's a lot of time to kill before Saturday.
This isn't a complaint. He is shooting 30% from 3. Just wondered if it was a confidence thing. Simple as that.
Pretty easy to move along to another thread if you don't want to chime in with something constructive on this one. I just see guys like Naz and Georges not thinking twice before stepping into a shot. There seems to be a little hesitation with Monte.
Pretty easy to move along to another thread if you don't want to chime in with something constructive on this one. I just see guys like Naz and Georges not thinking twice before stepping into a shot. There seems to be a little hesitation with Monte.
Fair enough. If I am a pass first point guard and leader of the team and I am shooting .300 while I have several other better 3 point shooters on the team I will work to get the better shot rather than taking a three myself if there is time to do so.
I think one thing that doesn't get talked about much is I think Big XII defenses are figuring out a bit that ISU avoids taking long 2's. I think some teams are really aggressive at guarding the 3 point line and then depend on help around the rim. If a defender doesn't have to worry about a player like MM occasionally taking a couple dribbles to a pull-up J you can guard him a lot closer.
Yes. I think sometimes people take Fred's aversion to long 2's just a little bit to literally. They are the worst shot on the floor, but sometimes you have to risk the worst shot for the good of forcing the opponent to guard the entire floor.
He's having a slump similar to last year. He was simply not a good player and not much of a contributor in Jan and Feb last year and more or less worked his way out of the rotation. Hitting the shot in OT @ Okie st woke him up a bit and he turned things around. Let's hope he finds a way to do it again this year. If he and Georges aren't hitting we are a very average shooting team.
Good point, last night you could really see our guys "freeze up" when they got in no man's land (10-15 ft from the hoop) think of all the bad passes we had after guys penetrated and got into the paint. That was the story of the game IMO, Morris in particular had a rough time with this. I don't think he's lacking confidence, he's just a pass first guy and the one weak spot in his game is he's not very physically strong. That can make him reluctant to take the ball to the hoop in traffic. Last night was as indecisive as I've seen him, a lot of that was due to how KU defended him.
I don't think he's lost his confidence at all either. His job is to facilitate and distribute with great efficiency. Its been interesting though to see this role being expanded in the last several games through necessity; we really miss Kane's and Ejim's ability to create and finish. Monte is proving to be really good at breaking defenses down and getting to the rim while executing under control. The operative words are "under control."
demoncore1031
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I personally think that BDJ has a great mid-range jumper. When he plays his best games, those are the shots he is hitting at a very high percentage. Monte has a good looking jumper, but the further out he gets the more he struggles to knock them down. Most of his points come on layups and the short floaters.
Everybody does. The long 2 is pretty much a worthless shot in this age of college basketball.
I could care less about Monte's long range shooting. While it would be nice if he was great at it (you could say that about everyone), I'm much more concerned about Monte's ability to consistently finish at the rim. Moreover, I think Monte cedes a lot of opportunities to seize the lane and make something happen. I think Monte has displayed a pretty good runner/floater (not on the level of Kane perhaps) this year and I don't think we see enough of it. When struggling to finish near the rim, this is a great way to utilize the lane and get a higher percentage shot.
Where I'm the most disappointed in Monte is his ability to draw fouls and get to the line. While his percentage is the greatest this year, he's probably the best natural FT shooter we have on the team. Despite playing 5 more minutes and controlling the ball much more in this year's offense, he's only shooting .5 more FT attempts a game. That's not just terrible, it's pathetic. That needs to be closer to 4.5-5.
Monte has that ability, he just needs to exploit it.