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#52
#52
matrosscbc said:
Richardson needs to work on his shooting
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My thoughts exactly. Even though I like to watch the guys dunk, let's see some improvement in shooting, free throw shooting and ball handling. You know the things that are important to being a good basketball player.
 
#53
#53
VOLsince68 said:
If you guys can't figure it out, there is no need explaining it to you, but here goes anyway.

It's called practice....ever hear of it. He is not a good shooter.....period. He is great on defense, but not very good shooting the ball. I have seen him go into the lane out of control and get tripped up or the ball slapped into the crowd. I admit, he is a little better around the rim, but for the most part, he should leave the shooting to McCrae and others.

I am really not trying to bash on him regardless of what you guys may think, just stating what I see. If you don't like it, I apologize. It kills me everytime he takes a shot because I feel that there is a very low probablility that it is going in. The other teams do not tend to guard him and won't until he can prove he can hit shots. He ended up with the ball several times Saturday with little time on the shot clock. Great defensive move by Georgia if you ask me.

I understand that Golden and McBee were having a terrible game Saturday and Stokes was covered up all day. He had to shoot it more than normal due to this, but I would love to see some improvement there. I love his hustle and scrappiness, he just needs to greatly improve his shooting abilities. Hall actually made some great shots for a change.

I will ask you all this, do you want him taking shots with under 3 minutes left in the game and us behind?
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He takes good shots as shown by his 48% fg percentage....Is he a great shot.....no but he is one of our better players at knowing what is a good versus bad shot for him.
 
#54
#54
Richardson is a great athlete, very good defensive basketball player. Has shown the occasional offensive flash. Hope he commits to his offensive game going forward. He could be a sort of McRae- lite that plays better D if he would. Plus, he seems like a great kid which really makes me pull for him and wish he reaches his potential.
 
#55
#55
VOLsince68 said:
If you guys can't figure it out, there is no need explaining it to you, but here goes anyway.

It's called practice....ever hear of it. He is not a good shooter.....period. He is great on defense, but not very good shooting the ball. I have seen him go into the lane out of control and get tripped up or the ball slapped into the crowd. I admit, he is a little better around the rim, but for the most part, he should leave the shooting to McCrae and others.

I am really not trying to bash on him regardless of what you guys may think, just stating what I see. If you don't like it, I apologize. It kills me everytime he takes a shot because I feel that there is a very low probablility that it is going in. The other teams do not tend to guard him and won't until he can prove he can hit shots. He ended up with the ball several times Saturday with little time on the shot clock. Great defensive move by Georgia if you ask me.

I understand that Golden and McBee were having a terrible game Saturday and Stokes was covered up all day. He had to shoot it more than normal due to this, but I would love to see some improvement there. I love his hustle and scrappiness, he just needs to greatly improve his shooting abilities. Hall actually made some great shots for a change.

I will ask you all this, do you want him taking shots with under 3 minutes left in the game and us behind?
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good thing you aren't the coach.
 
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#56
Richardson is a great athlete, very good defensive basketball player. Has shown the occasional offensive flash. Hope he commits to his offensive game going forward. He could be a sort of McRae- lite that plays better D if he would. Plus, he seems like a great kid which really makes me pull for him and wish he reaches his potential.
 
#57
#57
volbeast33 said:
He takes good shots as shown by his 48% fg percentage....Is he a great shot.....no but he is one of our better players at knowing what is a good versus bad shot for him.
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It must be the 20.6% from behind the arc I am thinking about then........
 
#58
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KBVol said:
Richardson is a great athlete, very good defensive basketball player. Has shown the occasional offensive flash. Hope he commits to his offensive game going forward. He could be a sort of McRae- lite that plays better D if he would. Plus, he seems like a great kid which really makes me pull for him and wish he reaches his potential.
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Yes, he is a great athlete and a great defensive player; and a great kid from what I can tell. I truly hope he develops into more of an offensive player down the road. He is just not there right now.

He kind of reminds me of Stanley Asumnu (minus the freakish build). Great hustle and he could get to the rim with unreal athletic moves, but not hit the shot very often.
 
#59
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VOLsince68 said:
It must be the 20.6% from behind the arc I am thinking about then........
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You do realize that he only shoots one 3 pt per game.....He only takes wide open threes or forced at the end of the shot clock or game. The guy has very good shot selection and plays within hisself.
 
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#62
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VOLsince68 said:
If you guys can't figure it out, there is no need explaining it to you, but here goes anyway.

It's called practice....ever hear of it. He is not a good shooter.....period. He is great on defense, but not very good shooting the ball. I have seen him go into the lane out of control and get tripped up or the ball slapped into the crowd. I admit, he is a little better around the rim, but for the most part, he should leave the shooting to McCrae and others.

I am really not trying to bash on him regardless of what you guys may think, just stating what I see. If you don't like it, I apologize. It kills me everytime he takes a shot because I feel that there is a very low probablility that it is going in. The other teams do not tend to guard him and won't until he can prove he can hit shots. He ended up with the ball several times Saturday with little time on the shot clock. Great defensive move by Georgia if you ask me.

I understand that Golden and McBee were having a terrible game Saturday and Stokes was covered up all day. He had to shoot it more than normal due to this, but I would love to see some improvement there. I love his hustle and scrappiness, he just needs to greatly improve his shooting abilities. Hall actually made some great shots for a change.

I will ask you all this, do you want him taking shots with under 3 minutes left in the game and us behind?
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Yes. He would be my 4th or 5th option. But guy that applies to all teams ya know. Everybody has guys with different skill-sets.

Just because he isnt our best shooter doesnt mean he cant shoot. Give him a break on Sat. Nobody could throw it in the ocean except Kenny and JMc
 
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#64
Look guys, I love his hustle and toughness. I really do. And I am glad he's on this team. He is just not who I want to see with the ball when we need a shot made; especially at the end of a game.

He may turn out to be great in the next two years and I really hope he does. He really seems to work harder than most of them.
 
#65
#65
Good Lord, I post a thread about something awesome a player did and it turns into a thread bashing the players shooting ability. Typical Volnation I guess.
 
#67
#67
It's funny because people ignore the improvement's Josh has made and focus on the negatives. He had almost zero offensive game last year and now he has a consistent mid range shot and can finish around the rim better. He is obviously still working on driving the ball and his 3 point shot, but if that's not in his game, it's the end of the world. He is still good enough to threaten to score while being the best perimeter defender in the SEC.
 
#68
#68
Indeed. I'm gonna have to stop tryin to debate some of these Negative Nanc's and start filling my ignore bucket.
 
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#69
whocaresgobobcats said:
It's funny because people ignore the improvement's Josh has made and focus on the negatives. He had almost zero offensive game last year and now he has a consistent mid range shot and can finish around the rim better. He is obviously still working on driving the ball and his 3 point shot, but if that's not in his game, it's the end of the world. He is still good enough to threaten to score while being the best perimeter defender in the SEC.
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He struggled on the defensive end the last 2 games. Turner and Pope lit him up so much Coach put McBee on them.
 
#73
#73
And the reason McBee was guarding turner wasn't because Richardson was getting lit up, it's because he sat most of the game with foul trouble.
 
#74
#74
whocaresgobobcats said:
It's funny because people ignore the improvement's Josh has made and focus on the negatives. He had almost zero offensive game last year and now he has a consistent mid range shot and can finish around the rim better. He is obviously still working on driving the ball and his 3 point shot, but if that's not in his game, it's the end of the world. He is still good enough to threaten to score while being the best perimeter defender in the SEC.
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If you would pay freaking attention. No one is saying that he shouldn't play. Just not shoot as much.

Last 3 games: 1-7 against A&M, 3-7 against Florida, and 3-11 against Georgia. That is not better. Yeah, he's better overall, but still a work-in-progress.

You seem to have it all figured out anyway.
 
#75
#75
ranradVOL said:
Turner scored probably 90% of his 37 points on McBee. Did you even watch the game?
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The shooting percentage those two games against Richardson was higher than against McBee and I am in no way saying McBee is a great defender. I am saying that in those two games if Richardson was doing the job on them he would have stayed on them. I think I watched the game more closely than many. Turner hit 4 out of his last 17 with McBee on himl
 
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