Paige bulking up

[oldude]

Increased gain in weight, muscle and strength are nice - as long as flexibility and shooting percentage are not compromised. LeBron James is built like a tank, but has shot 38% or better from 3PT in only 2 of his 19 seasons. Just the facts, ma'am.

If the referees continue to whistle touch fouls outside the arc, but not whistle mugging below the foul line - Paige will still get forearmed, grabbed, held, pulled, and pushed. Geno needs to protect her early and often in the upcoming season.

I have often stayed at the Holiday Inn and earned degrees in Kinesiology, Sports Science and Health & Human Performance.

38% from 3 is a rather arbitrary benchmark. For his career Lebron shoots 34.6%. That equates to 52% from 2pt range and is an excellent percentage for a player as big and strong as James, who can beat defenders off the dribble.

 

[JellyBean]

Super excited for Paige because she knows she is dealing with a lot of physical play. Getting stronger and bulking up is going to help absorb a lot of that physical contact. Also, she is working with Andrea, who is going to put Paige in the best possible phases of her strength development.

 

[UHF]

38% from 3 is a rather arbitrary benchmark. For his career Lebron shoots 34.6%. That equates to 52% from 2pt range and is an excellent percentage for a player as big and strong as James, who can beat defenders off the dribble.

It is not an arbitrary benchmark. It is a factual statistic. I never used the term benchmark.

"Equates to 2pt %" is just silly. NBA is a 3pt league. Steph Curry assured that.

 

[oldude]

It is not an arbitrary benchmark. It is a factual statistic. I never used the term benchmark.

"Equates to 2pt %" is just silly. NBA is a 3pt league. Steph Curry assured that.

38% is arbitrary in that you choose it as your benchmark for Lebron James to indicate that anything below is not very good. For the record, the average overall 3-pt shooting percentage last year in the NBA is 34.2. So Lebron is an “above average” 3-pt shooter for his career.

In his 19 seasons in the NBA, James shot above 34.2% in 11 seasons, including each of the past three. That’s excellent for a player that can literally get to the basket anytime he wants.

While the percentage of scoring that comes from the 3-pt line in the NBA has been increasing, it currently sits at 39%. That means that 61% of all points scored in the NBA come from 2-pt range or the foul line. So “factually speaking” the NBA is still a 2-pt league.

 

[UHF]

38% is arbitrary in that you choose it as your benchmark for Lebron James to indicate that anything below is not very good. For the record, the average overall 3-pt shooting percentage last year in the NBA is 34.2. So Lebron is an “above average” 3-pt shooter for his career.

In his 19 seasons in the NBA, James shot above 34.2% in 11 seasons, including each of the past three. That’s excellent for a player that can literally get to the basket anytime he wants.

While the percentage of scoring that comes from the 3-pt line in the NBA has been increasing, it currently sits at 39%. That means that 61% of all points scored in the NBA come from 2-pt range or the foul line. So “factually speaking” the NBA is still a 2-pt league.

As if BYers avoid doing that when referencing statistics by players from UConn - or their favorite hated teams.

 

[Biff]

Thread Title "Paige bulking up".

 

[TB12]

Back to Paige

Is she on Mirror Lake????

 

[Alydar]

38% is arbitrary in that you choose it as your benchmark for Lebron James to indicate that anything below is not very good. For the record, the average overall 3-pt shooting percentage last year in the NBA is 34.2. So Lebron is an “above average” 3-pt shooter for his career.

In his 19 seasons in the NBA, James shot above 34.2% in 11 seasons, including each of the past three. That’s excellent for a player that can literally get to the basket anytime he wants.

While the percentage of scoring that comes from the 3-pt line in the NBA has been increasing, it currently sits at 39%. That means that 61% of all points scored in the NBA come from 2-pt range or the foul line. So “factually speaking” the NBA is still a 2-pt league.

You can't count 1 pt shots as 2 pt shots. If 20% of all pts are ft's then 2 pt shots and 3 pt shots score essentially the same number of points.

 

[Alydar]

Is she on Mirror Lake????

It's not deep enough. I once skinny-dipped in Mirror Lake, at 2 AM.

 

[oldude]

You can't count 1 pt shots as 2 pt shots. If 20% of all pts are ft's then 2 pt shots and 3 pt shots score essentially the same number of points.

It’s not quite that simple. The foul rate on 2-pt shots in the NBA is 13.9% vs 1.7% on 3-pt shots. This past season the average number of 2-pt shots per game was 53 vs 35 x 3-pt shots per game. The average FT percentage was approximately 78% with an average of approximately 17 made FT’s per game.

Some of those FT’s were non-shooting fouls when teams were over the limit and some were technical fouls. But the vast majority of those FT’s occurred as a result of fouls incurred on 2-pt shots. So here again, running an aggressive offense that attacks the basket gets a team to the FT line a lot more than firing up shots from the arc.

 

[Alydar]

It’s not quite that simple. The foul rate on 2-pt shots in the NBA is 13.9% vs 1.7% on 3-pt shots. This past season the average number of 2-pt shots per game was 53 vs 35 x 3-pt shots per game. The average FT percentage was approximately 78% with an average of approximately 17 made FT’s per game.

Some of those FT’s were non-shooting fouls when teams were over the limit and some were technical fouls. But the vast majority of those FT’s occurred as a result of fouls incurred on 2-pt shots. So here again, running an aggressive offense that attacks the basket gets a team to the FT line a lot more than firing up shots from the arc.

All we are talking about is scoring and there are 1 point shots, 2 point shots and 3 point shots. Give the % of points scored in each of the 3 categories and then talk about 2's vs 3's.

 

[MSGRET]

It's not deep enough. I once skinny-dipped in Mirror Lake, at 2 AM.

Last Week???

 

[Alydar]

Last Week???

Last century.

 

[oldude]

All we are talking about is scoring and there are 1 point shots, 2 point shots and 3 point shots. Give the % of points scored in each of the 3 categories and then talk about 2's vs 3's.

Well, if that’s the way you want to look at it here it is. In the most recent season the average NBA team scored 111 pts per game as follows: 17 on FT’s (15%), 37 on 3-pt shots (33%), 55 on 2-pt shots (51%). So once again, while the 3-pt shot is increasing in its importance, a greater percentage of team scoring is initiated and achieved on 2-pt shots.

 

[HuskyPhan]

With apologies, that does not look fun.

Hope she moves Paige's routines inside during this upcoming heat wave.

Au contraire eebmg SUP (standup paddleboard) is super fun once you get the hang of it. Especially when it's hot, a nice long paddle like from my place in Groton Long Point to Fishers Island and back is just the ticket. Man, I wish I could give Paige a quick lesson-done correctly, it's an amazing core workout

 

[CL82]

It's not deep enough. I once skinny-dipped in Mirror Lake, at 2 AM.

Willingly?

( I may have, um, helped a few people swim in Mirror Lake, but I never saw anyone hop in there in there own.)

 

[JDForever]

I agree on Hudy’s importance to UConn. While UConn has maintained an incredibly high level of excellence for a very long time, in the last 5 years or so UConn has struggled on occasion with strong, physical teams.

We are in year 2 of Hudy’s transformation of UConn WBB to a team better able to match up with physical teams like SC. The addition of Ice & Ayanna, two strong, physical frontcourt players, will only add to UConn’s ability to handle physical play.

 

[Stymie]

Increased gain in weight, muscle and strength are nice - as long as flexibility and shooting percentage are not compromised. LeBron James is built like a tank, but has shot 38% or better from 3PT in only 2 of his 19 seasons. Just the facts, ma'am.

If the referees continue to whistle touch fouls outside the arc, but not whistle mugging below the foul line - Paige will still get forearmed, grabbed, held, pulled, and pushed. Geno needs to protect her early and often in the upcoming season.

I have often stayed at the Holiday Inn and earned degrees in Kinesiology, Sports Science and Health & Human Performance.

“Bulking up” is only part of the solution.
The manner in which the officials control the game is another.
And the way Paige’s teammates respond to blatant aggression is another part.

 

[UConnCat]

 

[eebmg]

Paige getting ripped. Nice choice of muscle top so every ripple visible.

 

[MSGRET]

She has bulked up since her Freshman season. I guess the Olive Oyl moniker that Paige's high school coach gave her can be discontinued.

 

[Alydar]

Well, if that’s the way you want to look at it here it is. In the most recent season the average NBA team scored 111 pts per game as follows: 17 on FT’s (15%), 37 on 3-pt shots (33%), 55 on 2-pt shots (51%). So once again, while the 3-pt shot is increasing in its importance, a greater percentage of team scoring is initiated and achieved on 2-pt shots.

Thanks.