What Gilbert Arenas Told Donovan Mitchell After Watching His Playoff Performance

[Joncolton]

This is pretty fascinating stuff. I wonder if it would be possible to see a shot chart of his games vs Denver and how many shots he took on the right side vs the left. I'll be keeping an eye out for this going forward.

 

[NUMBERICA]

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

 

[Beer]

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

It's easier for a right handed person to jump off 2 feet going left. So he always tries to go left.

 

[Avery]

Gilbert also said to stock up on firearms.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I'll have to watch for it, but its a pretty big exaggeration to say 95% of his talent is in going to his left.

 

[NUMBERICA]

I mean, I guess I'm not paying enough attention these days to the X's and O's but I thought the book on Donovan is that he's too right-hand dominant.

 

[Jose Mayonnaise]

I mean, I guess I'm not paying enough attention these days to the X's and O's but I thought the book on Donovan is that he's too right-hand dominant.

You can be right-hand dominate with a preference of finishing on the left side of the hoop and or driving to your left. That's what I took away from his critique, that Donovan is more comfortable/prefers to finish/shoot going to the left.

 

[LogGrad98]

As a left-handed player one of my favorite shots was a fall-away going right at about 16-18 feet off a fast right-handed dribble. It catches people easily off-guard, easy money. But at the high school level and in rec league stuff they struggle to guard lefties as it is.

 

[Beer]

You can be right-hand dominate with a preference of finishing on the left side of the hoop and or driving to your left. That's what I took away from his critique, that Donovan is more comfortable/prefers to finish/shoot going to the left.

He goes hard left, he'll try and dunk, take it right at you ... but if he goes right he's either shooting a floater, an off-footed layup, or spinning back the the left. Teams would much rather him shoot a floater then try to get all the way to the rim.

 

[//r00t 4 Jazz]

Well he also said he made these comments after the Houston series the year prior to this years playoff run.