Misusing Vesely

of course, let’s hope that’s a joke, even if the percentages right now are more favorable to Ruffin.

Your analysis is spot on though. If Vesely bulked up, he’d have a higher ceiling than Ruffin, based on his length. But still, he wasn’t drafted as the next Michael Ruffin.

Fortunately, Vesely is young and just getting his start in the league. Odds are that he will be a much better player in a couple years than he is right now.

He will be a self check anytime he ventures outside of 8-10 feet, forever. His shooting %s (and the “does his shot appear like it could ever get better” eye test) are so awful that even with an AMAZING increase through a few years of hard work, he would still be a horrendous shooter.

Best case for Jan, he develops into a very good backup defensive specialist/energy at the 4. Worst case, he stays this bad and is back in Europe in the 13-14 season. He looks good in those videos because in a lower league, being 7foot and graceful means you can be effective.

scotty pippen… http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/pippesc01.html
clifford robinson

Robert horry shot under 30% 3pt his rookie year
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the diffference is all those players got to improve at their natural positions.

“: Chris Webber and Karl Malone. Webber improved his free throw shooting from a woeful 45.4-percent during 1998-99 to 75.1-percent in 1999-00. Malone shot 48.1-percent during his rookie season, but climbed to 70-percent during his third year in the NBA. Both players only dipped below 70 percent once for the remainder of their careers — pretty damn impressive. Obviously, these are best-case examples, but serve to illustrate that poor free throw shooting is correctable.” truthaboutit.net

vesely 3 pt shooting:
2011 partizan: 13 of 31 3-pointers in 21 games
2010 31 of 98 (32%) attempts in 68 games

I’ve definately seen worse for a guy taking 1.5 threes/game

im not saying he’s a good shooter by any means, but how do u know he can’t shoot if he hasn’t shot from the outside? have you seen him shoot cuz i havn’t.

Its a lot more likely he can become an effective 3 with an improved jumper than morphing into a 4. Its obvoius he’s not comfortable at the 4, and what he’ll give us gaurding 3’s /help defense and running the floor will supplement his poor shooting. At 3 he’s gaurding the wing more, and able to run on the fast break a lot more. plus he’s not a rebounder lets be honest. UNLEASH JAN at the wing. last note: other than mo evans our other 3s: booker, lewis (hurrendous lewis) can’t shoot either.

But don’t count Booker out yet. In the last few games, he has started to show a willingness to shoot from outside. They’re not dropping at a high percentage yet, but if he can maintain his confidence, good results will start to show.

We knew that our crop of young forwards lacked outside shooting. (We didn’t know that our veteran forwards, Blatche and Lewis, also lacked shooting touch. Sigh.) We stockpiled a bunch of hard working young forwards and hoped that at least some of them would develop a solid outside shot. Singleton looked better than expected early. Booker is starting to show promise now. This season has been miserable, but it’s too soon to write our guys off.

You would need a dead-eye SG, and a PF like Kevin Love or Anderson who are 40ish% mid and long range shooters. Then maybe you could see added benefit of having a guy like Wallace who can only slash in….but without the handle neccesary on Jan I don’t think that line-up is worth anything.

I still think his best bet is to add weight and BECOME a 4, instead of a non-NBA caliber 3.

Last night seemed like we saw a lot of Booker + Jan at stretches with JVM on the bench. If he adds muscle and and sort of offensive moves inside 10 ft Jan could conceivably play a lot of different roles off the bench

Can’t imagine him going against Dwight, Bynum, Perkins……

but I don’t see him shooting 3s at any acceptable %. Not until he can shoot at the FT line.

And the part about video games and soccer – Jan, are you serious now?