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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 4452988, member: 175"] I dunno. I mean, he’s a high school kid. Not every decision is going to be perfectly thought out or work out as planned - he’s still in the early phases of learning the game. You have to think about this stage of an athlete’s career as more about skills development and being just at the beginning of a learning curve than about looking like a finished product. I mean, the NBA euro move against two defenders worked and you called it beautiful, and then when something didn’t work and the defense stopped him, you called it selfish heat check BS. Trying to create plays against a defense loaded to stop you results in some bad possessions and you won’t always make the right read quickly enough like you will with more coaching and more experience. Handling the ball at 6-7 as an 18-year old, when you are still growing into your body (he probably only stopped growing a year or two ago), also sometimes means that a smaller defender will get the better of you. But you get better by doing and learning rather than hiding off the ball. And high school kids still working on all facets of the game should be content with shooting some long twos. That same rhythm 16-18 footer he shoots now will develop into a rhythm 21-footer with more practice and reps and strength training. He’s still young and still developing skills and mechanics, and just shooting 3s and layups at his age would stunt his development. To be a complete scorer, you need to develop the ability to create your own space and that’s hard to do from 20-feet plus every time. Better to work on the skill, then incrementally add range. Also a “live ball turnover” means the other team picks up a live ball with a chance to get a transition bucket. Not when the whistle blows for 5 seconds or you lose the ball out of bounds and you can reset your defense. [/QUOTE]

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