Will Gobert Ever Become a Good FT Shooter?

[LogGrad98]

If he can stay above 68% it is enough of a threat to avoid the hack-a-Rudy defenses and enough to punish them, for going at him too hard. I think he will top out around 72%. If he did get to 75% that would be monumental.

As it is we need to feed him more. Establishing his inside game as a threat early is the best way to open up the perimeter. In the games we didn't do that, like the one that was shown 17 times we could have thrown him the ball, they can just sag anyone down in the paint and cover the perimeter much more tightly. And Rudy shooting 70%+ from the free throw line makes this a viable threat.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Rudy works extremely hard, so it wouldn't surprise me for him to keep improving. Getting above 75% seems unrealistic, but maybe not.

Gobert has always felt like a much better 4th quarter free throw shooter vs rest of the game and so I checked to see if the stats agreed:
1st qtr - 72%
2nd qtr - 60%
3rd qtr - 70%
4th qtr - 77%

 

[TheGoldStandard]

that is pretty generous. my bet is most on here are 5" max.

I hope you are mixing Jazzfanz with Clutchfans/Rockets forum.

If not, medically speaking, exactly how dinky is your wang?

 

[LogGrad98]

I hope you are mixing Jazzfanz with Clutchfans/Rockets forum.

If not, medically speaking, exactly how dinky is your wang?

Nah, CF is pushing 3" maybe, on a good day when they didn't just get out of the pool.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

Nah, CF is pushing 3" maybe, on a good day when they didn't just get out of the pool.

 

[One Brow]

Not sure. I guess we’ll have to wait for the first couple of 7” players to make the league and start generating some data for us.

Haven't all of them been in the category of '7" and above'?

 

[campaignist]

I wouldn’t bet on it, but wouldn’t at all be shocked. I think the Mailman came in to league way worse at free throws than Gobert, and topped out around 80%. Rudy seems like almost as hard a worker.

 

[NAOS]

Haven't all of them been in the category of '7" and above'?

I was in a rush to make fun of him. Had to pop out the first message that came through my fingers before somebody beat me to the punch. I wish it had gone better, tbh.

 

[slc]

Well he's better than Shaq or Wilt for starters