We think of Cade as a 3-pt specialist, but slightly more than half his shots came from 2-pt range.
And while he may not look special on the drive, the truth is he did fine. Sure, being deadly from deep means they have to play you for the trey - which can make it easier to drive. But that doesn't change the fact that he looked pretty good driving.
Will that be true at this level? Who knows. But if they still have to play him to shoot from deep, why not?
I look forward to seeing Cade play for us. Might be special.
Here's the caveat that has me a bit worried....
Everybody shot well for Belmont - both from 2-pt range and from 3-pt range. When everybody shoots well everybody has to be taken seriously. We might have a team where everybody shoots well, too. But if not, will Cade still be as deadly?
First off, congrats to the Tar Heel football team, won one they could easy have lost, hope Max is ok.
Tyson, you may have watched the game TP & I played and felt I was not that high on Tyson, I assure that is not the case. I think he is a role player but his role seems really clear. Work hard on defense, use length to be hard to jump shoot over, block out for rebounds. On the offensive end, take and make clean looks, don't look to force anything outside of your comfort zone. When Ingram was asked last season why his shooting was so much better, his answer was because he got a lot cleaner looks than he did being one of the 2 scoring threats for Stanford. BOTH Ingram and Ryan got a lot more clean looks than they had seen in college, I suspect Tyson get's similar looks and his release is much quicker than Ingrams was.
Look, when you have Cadeau on ball creating, you have RJ that is a constant shooting threat that will have to play thru ball denial and double teams. Now we can screen to shake the ball denial but if you double RJ, where does that double come from? If you pull Jalen out of the paint you are not going to have the opposing big man there for the double, he will have to trail Jalen, put our power forward off ball side and you force that double to come from Tyson's defender. Tyson is a 6'7" long wing with a really quick shot release, was widely considered one of if not the best jump shooter to come from the latest portal.
Lot of folks would answer my question of where the double on RJ comes from and say it would come from the PG defender, just like Bama did. But you have to realize pulling Jalen out of the paint eliminates the center spot defender from being able to clog Cadeau or RJ driving lanes. That does not mean Jalen has to camp out past the 3pt line like Nance did, those mid range jumpers from Jalen drags his defender out of the paint, at times from 3yes but more often mid range. Mid range for 2 reasons, first Jalen's jumper is deadly from mid range but it also allows Jalen to cut back thru the lane for boards as the shot is taken by guys like Tyson and RJ.
See, it is about forcing the defense to do what you want them to do rather than allow them to dictate terms.
