So I have a question for you. Why are Joel Soriano and Rick Pitino both demanding Jenkins to shoot more after he clanked those 3s in the first half?I caught some shrapnel by responding indirectly about Jenkins in this thread, but I truly didn’t have a problem with his performance. 9 shots is amazing and he didn’t dribble the air out of the ball. I’ll sign for that the rest of the way.
He took 4 dumb shots in this game. The step-back 3 brick you mentioned and another 2 pt jumper were almost comical.
If you think a 30% shooter taking a 3 off the bounce from beyond the NBA 3 is not a bad shot, then I think you and half this forum just fundamentally disagree on what constitutes a bad shot.
The thing that irks me about Jenkins is how the hell is your bomb a better shot than almost anything else we could get? Look at the position Joel had on that? Bro! He was 7-8 and everyone knew he was locked in.
Then, look at Luis play you accurately described. There wasn’t a single person watching that didn’t know Jenkins was taking that shot. You can see the actual moment Luis realized. His defender isn’t even looking at Luis but Jenkins has already decided he’s shooting it and missed a wide open cut to the basket.
The third photo is Jenkins shooting 7 feet from behind the three-pt line with 17 seconds on the shot clockThis is a kid that shot 24.6%, 23.3% and 30.1% from 3 in his three seasons above the MAAC. If this is Ponds, let it rip baby. But Jenkins?
Taylor hasn’t taken a single bad shot all season and he’s shooting 43.6% from 3. Jenkins took 4 bad shots in one game. They are nearly identical shooters to me. Why does one not settle for bad shots while the other shoots with no concern about the situation?
The answer is because Joel and Rick both understand that we need our guards to produce from the perimeter to open up the rest of our offense (Joel post ups, offensive rebounding)
If we can’t produce from the perimeter, teams are gonna treat us like the New York Giants, stack the box, don’t let Barkley beat you, and the rest will fall into place.
The numbers from Dingle, Alleyne, Jenkins and Wilcher leave a lot to be desired so far in terms of shooting, but I don’t think the answer is stop trying.
Jenkins was 1-5 from 3 the other night, anyone realize that means he had our best 3pt shooting from a guard in the whole game? (dingle 0-5) (Wilcher 0-0)
Are we supposed to just give up on shooting 3s? Or just trust dingle will get it together so give him all of Jenkins shots?
Jenkins does take a couple bad shots a game but we can’t just punt on our guards ever producing offense from the perimeter. You yourself have noted how great it is when we have Joel, ledlum and Luis all down there fighting for rebounds. For that to happen, sometimes a shot has to go up from one of our guards. If Jenkins the one to do it so be it
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