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Message: [QUOTE="dennismenace, post: 3826641, member: 6158"] [B]Shooters are important. He's not going to carry the offense but he can absolutely shoot it if that's what's being asked of him and other guys are freeing him up for shots. Jackson is never going to be a plus shooter at the college level. Diggins's strength is not his outside shot. Hawkins is supposed to be a good shooter but I'm reluctant to say we couldn't use a kid who can make threes, which are such a huge equalizer in today's game. It makes the game so much harder for a variety of reasons if you don't have a reliable guy who can fill it up from outside.[/B] Unfortunately he has not demonstrated that he can [B]consistently [/B]hit the outside three and is so one dimensional on offense that that defending him is not that difficult. He offers nothing on defense and at 6-9 cannot rebound. Unless he really shows something down the stretch this year in the way of consistency on offense I can't even see him getting the minutes he gets. I just think he's reached the limit of his game at this level. Bringing him back to take someone else's minutes and would cause problems by limiting the minutes of the players who we are trying to develop for the next three and four years. With the talent (and competition level) rising guys coming in are going to have to be able to shoot threes and that just takes practice and time. It seems that all the player we have or are coming in have that tough defense mentality of Hurley and Polley doesn't (yet) Shots have to be developed if all these kids are going anywhere when they graduate or sooner and they won't get playing time if they don't work on that outside shot and free throws in the future. [/QUOTE]

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