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Four-star Chase McCarty talks Tennessee visit
Tennessee hosted its first basketball official visitor of the fall this past weekend, welcoming four-star wing Chase McCarty to campuswww.on3.com
I saw Andrew Slater say he finished EYBL around 32% from 3, also saw Adam Finkelstein (247 national guy) say today that efficiency is the question with him. Don’t know that it was the reasoning, or if it was a part, but sounds a bit like he somewhat had turned into a volume shooter/scorer, which isn’t something that typically has been attractive to Barnes.
Guessing it plummeted during peach jam then, which is also when Tennessee coincidentally dropped him iirc. I didn’t look at game by game stats, but that’s what was said is he finished at 32% from deep. And 42% at a smaller high school doesn’t mean much to me if it’s 32% at the EYBL level, I also wouldn’t compare EYBL to SEC play, but to each their own.
I'm not saying that it's exactly like for like, but it's also long-distance shooting %s. That skill is pretty translatable. You can either shoot or you can't. I'm just using it to illustrate how that 37% figure compares to one of the best shooters in the SEC.
Your first sentence is a terrible example, though. Uros wasn't a renowned 3-pt shooter just because he shot a few in high school, and that fact alone didn't make him a shooter. For players who shooting is their main ability, that skill generally translates. The same way it does for guys coming out of college drafted to be 3-and-D players in the NBA. Not always, like with most everything there are exceptions.
Where did anyone say that was the case? A month ago you were also verbally skeptical that something was going on behind the scenes when folks were suggesting just that as a possibility. Now it’s added in that he shot poorly, scouts questioned his efficiency at Peach Jam, and you don’t think that’s the reason either. Like I’ve said, evidence sure seems to suggest much more that we chose to go another direction for whatever the reason/combination of reasons may be, rather than to think he just up and cut us from his Top 8 and committed to a school he wasn’t previously mentioning.
Very much so, I’ll speak just to basketball, but Barnes absolutely refuses to get into bidding wars or just pay what a guy wants for a commitment. Collectives are starting to get a good idea on what market value is, and Tennessee will pay that no problem, but they aren’t going to just bid away to get a guy.
You certainly implied that his performance at Peach Jam, a 5-gm sample, coincided with Tennessee dropping him, perhaps in combination with any alleged impropriety related to NIL demands.
I literally said “I don’t know that it was the reason (why we cut him), or even part of it”…I was simply adding more context to his recruitment, and offering up additional possibilities as to why we may have cooled. Like I said nobody wanted to buy the “stuff going on behind the scenes” a month ago, but now think that could have some legs. Maybe it’s similar that nobody wants to buy his poor play at Peach Jam could have also cooled some schools on him.
Huh?! Literally your first post that sparked the conversation…..“Just saw this today on Swartz and I'm still surprised we allegedly dropped him after the Peach Jam.”
Right, but my intention was never really to get back into the weeds about what happened, why it happened, etc, with Tennessee and him parting ways. In hindsight, perhaps unintentionally, I was projecting that I didn't believe the split to be performance related and that article seemed to prop up that belief.
