Lolz. The point is it isn't difficult for the players at the highest possible level of college basketball and the NBA but it remains nearly impossible for Andre and Solo really struggles with it.
I didn't call him "not athletic". Read the post that I was responding to and then my post and address how Solo is a far more athletic specimen than either Hawkins or Ross, where does it show up in his actual gameplay? How many times have you seen Solo dribble straight line to the rim, attempt to score and you've been wowed with his athleticism? Again this is not a knock on Solo's play because I'm more than fine with it.
I think it's been reported Solo has a 45"+ vertical. And he has a very long wingspan....more akin to a 6'5-6'6 person, not 6'3. But I also read that he was actually one of the shorter kids on his teams growing up until sometime between freshmen and sophomore year in HS, where he had a huge growth spurt (think he went from 5'4 to 6'3" in less than 2 years). So I want to believe he's still going through a process of figuring out how to fully utilize his current height/length.
Solo Ball is shooting 60% on shots at the rim this year, he is certainly not struggling in that area, even if it's a small sample of his shots
Imagine if we built a player with Andre’s height, defense, rebounding, playmaking, and screen setting and Solo’s shot?
These guys are basketball players on full rides to the best college basketball team in the nation? What are you on about here? Layups are hard now?
We may have been spoiled by going from Marcus, to AJ, to Kemba, to Bazz, to Boatright, to Jalen, etc. They made a lot of guard things like finishing contested layups easy. Maybe it wasn’t that easy.
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Prime example of why you have to watch games and not look at a computer.
I don’t understand why he just doesn’t dunk more.
I’d like to see what the percentage is when dunks are removed. 100% of dunks should be converted, and Solo gets a decent amount on fast breaks.
I'm surprised that Solo doesn't handle the ball better since he was one of the shortest players early in HS. I would have assumed that would have been a strength, but I would be wrong unless his growth spurt mucked it up.
I’m pretty sure a lot of the attempts are either cuts to the rim when he’s super open or yeah, the dunks and layups on fast breaks.
He has 6 dunks, so he's 16/31 or 51.6% with those excluded. So still not struggling, you'll have to find a new narrative to spin
The eye test to me shows room for improvement on contested attempts.
If he had that and Jeremy lamb sophomore year level handle he’d be one of the best guards in the country.
Nothing like breaking out the eye test when all of the stats don't back up your argument
He is though, we all watch the games.
Oh they back it just fine. You also have uncontested layups included in those numbers. Numerous other people are disagreeing with you on this for a reason. I love the kid but it’s an area of his game that can be improved.
