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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2944441, member: 1414"]
Agree on Jalen.  But he's just not a great outside shooter in any case.  I wonder if we all perhaps forget that a guard with an explosive first step, plus the ability to step back and hit from distance or off a crossover dribble is a pretty rare, NBA caliber skill.  So rare that last two guys we had who could do it consistently lead us to national championships.  Ben Gordon could too if I recall, so maybe the last three.

It's easy to confuse "good shooters" with guys who can do that.  Anderson, Lamb, Giffey, lots of good shooters here couldn't really do it.  Vital can't.  Polley can't.   I don't expect Boughtknight to either.  Those guys needs ball movement (and movement by them without the ball) to get clean looks. It's one of the reasons Ollie's offense was such a failure and we thought we had no shooters.  I see something in Al that gives me hope that he may develop that in a year or two, and that will make him scary as hell.  Especially with a higher level of talent around him.
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