Knicks · McBride and Jericho have worked hard on changing their shooting trajectory (page 1)

Noticeable for both guys.

You can really tell on Jericho’s FT shooting and Deuce’s 3point shot, both used to be super loopy, high arching flicks. Smoothed out some this year.

I’d gather that Deuce may still be working on his and the small hesitancy he may have may be related.

martin wrote:Noticeable for both guys.

You can really tell on Jericho’s FT shooting and Deuce’s 3point shot, both used to be super loopy, high arching flicks. Smoothed out some this year.

I’d gather that Deuce may still be working on his and the small hesitancy he may have may be related.

I think the hitch Deuce has from three is because his first instinct is still to get in the midrange and pull-up. Hard transition to make go from being a lead initiator to being a spot-up guy. Also, I didn't realize how much Deuce posted up in college. The dude is a little tank and I think JB will make a great mentor given how paint/mid-range driven their games are.

BigDaddyG wrote:

martin wrote:Noticeable for both guys.

You can really tell on Jericho’s FT shooting and Deuce’s 3point shot, both used to be super loopy, high arching flicks. Smoothed out some this year.

I’d gather that Deuce may still be working on his and the small hesitancy he may have may be related.

I think the hitch Deuce has from three is because his first instinct is still to get in the midrange and pull-up. Hard transition to make go from being a lead initiator to being a spot-up guy. Also, I didn't realize how much Deuce posted up in college. The dude is a little tank and I think JB will make a great mentor given how paint/mid-range driven their games are.

Yes deuce was a mid range shooting PG in college. Pretty much a poor man’s version on JB. This is why I thought Thibs had a great opportunity to start the hotboyz movement early with IQ and Deuce. We would be looking at a different version of deuce right now and IQ would be more comfortable at the point. And whether this is good or bad, but if IQ and Deuce balled out last year like they doing now, we probably would not have given JB that contract OR we would’ve traded IQ or Deuce with a much larger return. Maybe in the running for a d.Mitchell. Instead all of our yoots value was down and that hurt our trade capital and missed opportunities.

Oh well. Deuce is playing now so I’m not going to complain. But deuce was our 3rd PG and glad he’s getting burn.