Does James Anderson shoot 3pt too much?

[pad300]

I don't think you need to worry about it too much:

•James Anderson was nothing short of spectacular last season, and it shows here. His 1.07 overall PPP ranks second amongst all players, as do his 20 possessions used per-game. He was above the PPP every in every situation except for guarded catch and shoot situations, and has more experience running the pick and roll (2.9 Pos/G) than any other player on our rankings. High usage/high-efficiency players are extremely difficult to come by, and NBA teams may want to ponder if they’re missing the boat on Anderson due to the fact that he has not been spectacular in workouts. The same thing happened last year with Marcus Thornton.

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The point where he was a below average scorer was on guarded Catch and Shoot situations - he should see a lot less of those when on the Spurs, as he will not be a 1st option. I suspect that very few of those 3pt'ers were open shots, given he was by far the dominant offensive option on that team.

[dbestpro]

He should shoot when he is opened and pass when he is covered. In any case the ball should never be in his hands for longer than 3 seconds.

[spursbird]

I don't think you need to worry about it too much:



The point where he was a below average scorer was on guarded Catch and Shoot situations - he should see a lot less of those when on the Spurs, as he will not be a 1st option. I suspect that very few of those 3pt'ers were open shots, given he was by far the dominant offensive option on that team.

I hope so. But I just read an article warning that Anderson has the possiblity to become the next Adam Morrison. They both dominated in college, but cannot create shots for themselves. I think whether he can fit the NBA quickly depends on how he learn to improve his ball handling.

[coyotes_geek]

I hope so. But I just read an article warning that Anderson has the possiblity to become the next Adam Morrison. They both dominated in college, but cannot create shots for themselves. I think whether he can fit the NBA quickly depends on how he learn to improve his ball handling.

It's not really a fair comparison for a number of reasons. First, in fairness to Morrison, his injury situation needs to be taken into account. Morrison actually had a decent rookie year where he averaged 12ppg. Not exactly eye-popping numbers, but it's certainly enough to where I don't think you can use that one season and say that there wasn't ever any chance of him becoming an effective NBA player. After the injury he's just never been the same so we'll never know how good he could have been.

Second, Anderson is in a completely different situation than Morrison was in. Anderson isn't coming in with the pressure of being the #3 pick in the draft, nor is he going to be counted on to be one of the Spurs primary scoring threats this season. Offensively all Anderson will be asked to do this year is knock down some open 3's while looking to penetrate just enough to keep defenses honest.

[Seventyniner]

It's not really a fair comparison for a number of reasons. First, in fairness to Morrison, his injury situation needs to be taken into account. Morrison actually had a decent rookie year where he averaged 12ppg. Not exactly eye-popping numbers, but it's certainly enough to where I don't think you can use that one season and say that there wasn't ever any chance of him becoming an effective NBA player. After the injury he's just never been the same so we'll never know how good he could have been.

Second, Anderson is in a completely different situation than Morrison was in. Anderson isn't coming in with the pressure of being the #3 pick in the draft, nor is he going to be counted on to be one of the Spurs primary scoring threats this season. Offensively all Anderson will be asked to do this year is knock down some open 3's while looking to penetrate just enough to keep defenses honest.

+1

Anderson is being put in a position to succeed, being the #4 (at best) option on offense for any given possession. He will never be counted on to be the primary scorer, and can focus on what he does best, which is shoot.

It's very hard to go from big scorer in college to big scorer in the NBA. Even Kevin Durant, while putting up good numbers, was pretty inefficient in his first two seasons.

[BackHome]

I don't think most of us are lookin at him going seven for seven in threes. I think most of us want a vesitle guy someone who can create their own shot, mid range, three point range, and able to take it to the whole.

I think he can come in and average about 15pts and 5 rebounds a game. The question though is he going to take Hills SG minutes or RJ minutes or a combination of both?

The other question is with Temple was he a PG in college? And who has more of a chance backing up Tony.......Temple or Hill?

[spursbird]

I don't think most of us are lookin at him going seven for seven in threes. I think most of us want a vesitle guy someone who can create their own shot, mid range, three point range, and able to take it to the whole.

I think he can come in and average about 15pts and 5 rebounds a game. The question though is he going to take Hills SG minutes or RJ minutes or a combination of both?

The other question is with Temple was he a PG in college? And who has more of a chance backing up Tony.......Temple or Hill?

15pts and 5 rebounds?Well in that case Dejuan Blair should have averaged 30pts and 20 rebounds last season.
About Temple, Draftexpress shows that he can play both pg and sg in college. But with so many talented guards in the team I don't see a chance for him to backup tp. Maybe he would just play in garbage time. And who to backup tp? You forgot the genuine pg-----------Manu.

[DPG21920]

Is this a question from the future?

[Ditty]

james anderson could be like a jason richardson

that would be nice that got shot lights out and never knew he could

[spursbird]

Is this a question from the future?

Well just a discussion. Not serious.