He will help the Tarheels alot next season with his pure shooting .
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I think he'll help us a lot, but there's no guarantee he'll be a "pure shooter" for us. He's been a high-volume 3PT shooter for 4 college seasons. NCAA average last year was around 33.7% from 3PT.
FR: 31.6%
SO: 34.4%
JR: 40.7%
SR: 34.4%
It was a similar question with Pete Nance last year. Is he a 30% 3PT shooter like he was as a FR/SO? Or is he a 45% 3PT shooter like he was as a SR? Turns out it was much closer to 30% than 45%.
I think Ryan is a much better and more natural shooter so I think an elite 40% is in play. But he's a career 35% 3PT shooter, so don't be surprised if it's around there. Which is solid, but not great.
FR: 31.6%
SO: 34.4%
JR: 40.7%
SR: 34.4%
It was a similar question with Pete Nance last year. Is he a 30% 3PT shooter like he was as a FR/SO? Or is he a 45% 3PT shooter like he was as a SR? Turns out it was much closer to 30% than 45%.
I think Ryan is a much better and more natural shooter so I think an elite 40% is in play. But he's a career 35% 3PT shooter, so don't be surprised if it's around there. Which is solid, but not great.
Ryan shoots significantly better off catch-and-shoot than off the dribble. This past season, with his coach quitting and the team mailing it in, he found himself doing way too much off the dribble. That's why his shooting % dropped.
At a glance, Ryan is used to having other good 3pt shooters on the floor with him. I hope we have that, too.
I have seen Ryan a ton while at Notre Dame, he will be a 25 year-old man by the start of next season. He is a physical, hard nosed competitor, who can shoot it. He has been a decent player, nothing special, but times are different, as a fully matured experienced ACC talent with most of the next level talents still being wet behind the ears in college for their pit stop year, he brings a lot to the table for his year 6.
Make the most of the year !!!
Make the most of the year !!!
His toughness and work ethic are equally important to UNC as his shooting! I think he will shoot well because he will get more clean looks. That is the difference I saw in his shooting numbers.
Well I hope he's a better catch-and-shoot 3PT shooter. I'm pretty sure every player in college or pro basketball is better in catch-and-shoot situations.
And my point isn't really a criticism of Ryan. I think he's a good shooter and will shoot a good percentage. I'm just holding my expectations that he'll be a dead-eye shooter.
But even if Ryan is like a 34% 3PT shooter, I think he will help us a lot. But he could be someone that truly raises our ceiling to something serious if he is in the 40% range. A high volume 40% 3PT shooter.... I'll dream about it.
Just hoping for us to rank somewhere within the top 50 in 3PT shooting this coming season in Division 1, compared to last season disaster.
Ryan is not going to take the very high volume of shots that Caleb took. It is one thing to be a 30% shooter taking 10 shots, means you miss 7 shots. But a 30% shooter that takes on the regular 20+ shots a game, at 20 that means he missed 14 shots which allows for far more defensive rebounds and a lot of those could be run outs off long treys that usually provide long rebounds.
I didn’t know it was even possible to shoot as much as Caleb did.
Caleb played 1 more game than Cormac Ryan did last season . . . and took 149 more shots.
Not sure what that tells us, but it's sort of interesting.
Ryan will not be asked to create like Caleb either. Will not be a focus on offense. Role player compared to make something happen late in the clock guy. Totally different roles.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Ryan will be asked to do what Caleb did last year. But I do think he will be a late shot clock primary option for us. He’s got some size, some wiggle and and a quick release.
Whether RJ is at the 1 or 2, his size limits him in those situations. I don’t view Harrison Ingram as a guy who can get his own bucket most of the time.
I hope we won’t need Ryan to constantly bail us out late clock. I think with better shooting and an offense and skill upgrade with Ingram, things should flow more naturally. But right now, I think Ryan will be a primary option in late clock iso situations.
Maybe Cadeau will solve all of that.
Know what Caleb created most? He created a huge number of missed shots, I have not looked but maybe someone else wants to, I wonder where Caleb falls in the list of all time Tar Heels for missed shots in just his 3years with us, for that matter wonder where he falls in the all time missed shots for the entire NCAA? Yeah, Caleb created a lot of things for sure, I do recall very clearly he hitting big shots at the end of 2 very specific games against duke ending both K's career at Cameron with a loss and ending his career with a loss, for sure good times, I also recall his 5 for 26 in a natty game that we lost while being up big at the half, funny how 1 guy going 5 for 26 usually ends up with his team creating a loss rather than a win.
So yeah, we can for sure talk about what Caleb created but how about we not excuse it as his being forced to take all those bad shots because he was ONLY getting the ball when the shot clock was near zero, that sounds nice but it just isn't accurate, he shot most of those heat checks with ample time on the shot clock for his team to get a better look than what he took. In fact, it was a LACK of creating a good shot that he settled for a harder shot than he needed to.
I guarantee you that we won’t take as many late clock threes as we did if Cadeau reclassifies.
A lot to unpack there. Caleb certainly had/has issues with efficiency no doubt, big time issues. Cormac Ryan will not be the create something guy late in the clock, which was what my response was to. Hopefully as Jung stated he will be a good late clock kick to catch and shoot option though and when kicked to late in the clock he will take some more difficult looks. Still VERY different roles.
As to Caleb's 2 Dook games and poor shooting National title game. The game that stands out to me is the UCLA game. As good if not the best UNC NCAA performance ever. Done in the sweet 16, not Natty game, let alone the 2nd Dook finish without that incredible season saving performance. The Marquette toss-up opener he also finished in the 1st half, absolutely lights out. His tourney run was amazing.
Love is water under the bridge. Ryan is a totally different player who I think fits our needs better but we shall see.
Look, I am not saying Caleb did not thrill us at times, he certainly did. I am not that guy that is looking to lay the blame for last season at Caleb's feet either, very clearly there was good Caleb but there was bad Caleb as well and unfortunately bad Caleb showed up way to often.
I found myself constantly asking is this guy a net sum positive or negative for this team? Did we have to play as many close games because Caleb missed so many shots, took very high volume of shots, did very little to create for others, the poor decisions he made with the ball, and elected to play defense only when he wanted to? Would we have needed him to play the hero role had he been more efficient thru the bulk of the game? Realize, a bad shot missed, rebounded to the other team and they go down and score, that is a 4pt turn around and there were a lot of those from Caleb misses, many more than there should have been. Now I do place more of the problem on the coaching staff, especially Hubert and his refusal to go to an attack that actually reflected his teams talent. But Caleb is not blameless, at some point it has to occur to a player that man, my shot just is not there tonight, I need to chill taking shots and do other things to help my team win this game, a thought that didn't seem to register with Caleb.
BTW Todd, I am not throwing daggers at you personally in this, I just disagree in what I think you are offering, at least to an extent. Reasonable people can at times disagree and it not be personal and just feel I need to share that. I can't help but argue my point hard ball at times and at those times some can take what I say as being a bit jerkish and that is not my intent. I like going back and forth with you because you don't back down from what you believe any more than I will, I respect that!
very good point, especially frustrating because caleb was effective when driving to the hoop. but no, he just loved shooting 3s.
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