I agree that Gordon looks to be mainly a spot up shooter. He was most effective last year catching the defense off guard when coming off the bench and hit some open shots. You can tell he is not able play to 100% of his ability due to the injuries in his past but can still hit shots. In regards to Joe Charles it is hard to put a lot of expectations on a freshman and especially with him opting out of his senior season I don’t know where that will put him as far as being ready to jump into the rotation.
These are reasons why I would still like to see some added depth at forward. I saw that we offered a JUCO power forward that recently got out of his national letter of intent after signing with Alabama. The kid obviously has a ton of offers so that may be a long shot but it shows that the staff is still actively recruiting, even though at the moment the scholarship we have no open scholarships.
When you say Gordon and Butts are our shooters, that's exactly what our problem is. Neither is that great of a shooter. Way too much inconsistency in those 2. And not to mention Butts has some baggage on him that already got him suspended once last year. They need Greg to be that lockdown shooter. And hopefully Kobe keeps improving his outside shot as well.
OK no where in that post did I say they were our shooters, I have reread the post multiple times. I did say that Gordon is primarily a spot up shooter, because that is what he is. By the way, Gordon shot 38.5% on 3's last year and Devin Butts shot 36% on 3's last year. That is not bad. The only player on the team that shot better, with the exception of Akuwba, who was 1-1 was Cedric Russell. Butts and Gordon were better than Harper, Garnett and Julien (small sample size). Again I did not say they were our shooters, I said Gordon is a spot up guy and Butts is able to be more creative, his biggest problem besides off the court issues was that he shot just about the same from inside 3 as outside 3. He has to improve inside the 3 point line.
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