Reed Sheppard is the Rockets’ Franchise Player™

They need to do background country music in Toyota Center.

 

The Keith Urban-ization of Toyota Center continues to increase.

 

Yea it’s from that article with that system that was paywalled:

 

So Carter's data is saying 45 degree arc is bad. No wonder tmacs shot was automatic.

 

Kenny Smith had a very flat shot as well

 

I'd imagine 42-43 is more optimal. Jabari could take some notes on this. It's pretty noticable how KD has a few more degrees of arc and is a lot more accurate.

 

I think it is saying that 45 degrees is good:

https://archive.is/20240627035811/h...-nba-draft-790cb365#selection-5749.0-5749.428

 

I'll be at Reed Sheppard Square Dance night

 

Chandler Parsons too I believe

 

The post says "Accurate shooters shoot the ball at a slightly lower line"

 

This is the full quote from the article:

He's saying slightly lower than what he used to believe was the ideal shot which was a high arching shot, but now he believes the ideal shot approaches at 45 degrees. He's saying 45 degrees is one of the ideal metrics.

 

I've always thought that high arch gives the ball a wider angle to enter the rim thereby giving more margin of error. 45 degree is the most efficient in terms of the force needed to push the ball to a destination point thereby giving you better range.

Physics.

 

Great... half the people on the planet got pissed when they brought math into basketball, now you go and bring physics into it. Thanks a lot, Purvis.

 

21 minutes of Purvis's shots.

 

Still Texas, all good.

 

Glad you got the reference. I still can't believe those shots that he used the backboard to bank in his high-arc shots in that video. I remember reading a story about him where he wasn't a very good ballplayer until around his junior year of high school (?) when his high school coach taught him to shoot with arc while holding a broom up for him to shoot over. This stopped him from taking line-drive shots. He said that changed his career because it completely changed his shot.

 

physics? or geometry? so many questions . . .

 

no magnets; so all good.

 

F = Ime.

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Michael Jordan had a flat shot too.