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Very true
The Spurs haven't had too many great straight-away shooters in recent years.
mason, bring it on come the start of nba games. show us that you belong to our team. go spurs go
Very true
The Spurs haven't had too many great straight-away shooters in recent years.
Okay, well, technically I suppose he wasn't great.
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He was also here like half a decade ago...
Damn it Shoog, you stole what I was going to post. Buckets from straight on was way better than anywhere else on the court. Finley and Van Exel were really good on straight on 3pt shooters until the Spurs got a hold of them.
Regarding the 101/109.. It's good, but not anything out of the ordinary for an NBA perimeter player. I have a mate who played D1 college in the USA, mainly rode the bench who consistently makes 43-45 out of 50 3's when unguarded in a gym.
Anyhoo, go Roger. I think he will be a good player for the Spurs.
i think roger will make or break us this season.
he makes us, and gives us those extra 14ppg that we need*..
or he breaks us, and fails to become anything close to what he was last year in washington.
*with manu healthy, i think we'll still need 14ppg from him.
The really good thing about Mason is that the Wiz run the Princeton offense, a motion variety. That means he understands running a play every time down the floor, and the concept of being in the right place. His learning curve should be shorter than the average first year Spur.
Buckets shot ~40% from straight away during the 2003 playoff run. But in that regular season and since then, he's been pretty bad at shooting straight away threes. Last season he was 23-86 and he's had similarly low percentages throughout his career.
Steve Smith, on the other hand, shot 50%+ from straight away while with the Spurs.
Can't wait til the season starts... really growing on Mason the more I read about him!
Shoosh pleaseThe only Buckets I choose to remember is the 2003 playoff version! Thinking about any other incarnation of Buckets makes me angry that he still isn't a Spur.
I do remember Smith being good from straight on with his linedrive shots.
True. You never end the day on a miss. I can't remember ever walking off the practice court without making sure the last ball I shot was in.
I just wanted to clarify the drill referred to in the article and impressed by the observations of the very astutue Spurs fans on the board.
The drill is simple, Rog goes from 5 spots beyond the arc and shoots the same shot until he makes ten in a row, however once the goal of ten is surpassed he continues to shoot until he misses. He then moves to the next spot and does the same thing.
That would explain why the final numbers ended with the odd number of 109 on that particular day.
This drill is always done while tired and usually at the end of a session.
The numbers are accurate and Timberwolves center Calvin Booth was there watching and can verify. Also I saw some insinuations that I bloated the numbers to drum up clients which is laughable. I work with guys in the league during the off-season and am AD and coach at a public high school in East Baltimore the rest of the time.
Rog never ends a session with a miss and completes every workout making 10 free-throws in a row. He is a gym rat and an all-around great guy. He is lvery fortunate to be in a great situation with one of the most respected franchises in the league.
Good luck this season....it is an odd year after all!
Welcome and thanks for the added information. Your scenario makes it a much more impressive feat.
Feel free to give us any more Roger Mason, Jr. information and hopefully the hard work pays off for Mason this year in a big way
This is awesome, everyone is working so hard this year. It looks like Manu's injury has kind of brought everyone together. Lets hope some of the new pg's work out as well.
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