Jordy for three

[jdw]

Tim Miles said on btn live he is going to eventually let Jordy shoot three's because he is good at it.

[jdw]

I wanted to change thread title and screwed it up how do I delete the other thread

 

[fred1212]

he needs to work on those 3 footers

[hal9000]

 

[Cowboy Kermit]

Maybe Jordy has truly just a 6'11 Pick and Pop Five man trying to play on the interior all this time?

[uneblinstu]

Heh, no, I don't think so. But if he's able to hit from out there, good luck defending him. I've seen him put the ball on the floor a couple times, too.

[AuroranHusker]

3 hours ago, fred1212 said:

he needs to work on those 3 footers

 

Dunks are more fun anyway. Pound 'em down, big fella~!

[49r]

Are we still a little shell-shocked from the Pitchford debacle?  I say let him shoot a couple.  Why not?

[hhcmatt]

4 minutes ago, 49r said:

Are we still a little shell-shocked from the Pitchford debacle?  I say let him shoot a couple.  Why not?

 

Pitchford was a stretch 4, not a center. We had Jacobson shooting from 3 earlier and he's still be shooting them if he could get them to fall.

[aphilso1]

Having your center stand around the three point line is a terrible idea, unless he can make enough of them to cause the man guarding him to vacate the paint, too.  Otherwise that just leaves a shot blocker/rebounder standing under the hoop with no offensive big man to worry about.  Sounds like a recipe for 100 blocked shots and 0 offensive rebounds.  No thanks.

 

Now if theoretically he could make them at a significant clip (say 38% or above), then maybe you entertain the idea.  It may cause the other team to go small to defend the perimeter, and then you punish them inside.  But they can always just throw zone at you instead and park their big man in the paint, and then we're back to the zero offensive boards/infinite blocked shots scenario.

Edited February 1, 2017 by aphilso1

[atskooc]

7 minutes ago, aphilso1 said:

Having your center stand around the three point line is a terrible idea, unless he can make enough of them to cause the man guarding him to vacate the paint, too.  Otherwise that just leaves a shot blocker/rebounder standing under the hoop with no offensive big man to worry about.  Sounds like a recipe for 100 blocked shots and 0 offensive rebounds.  No thanks.

 

Now if theoretically he could make them at a significant clip (say 38% or above), then maybe you entertain the idea.  It may cause the other team to go small to defend the perimeter, and then you punish them inside.  But they can always just throw zone at you instead and park their big man in the paint, and then we're back to the zero offensive boards/infinite blocked shots scenario.

If it were that easy, then how did Wisconsin make it to the championship game a couple years ago with their three-point shooting center? I think they managed to get some offensive rebounds along the way.

[AuroranHusker]

If Jordy can make at least 37% of threes, why not?!

[Swan88]

How about this:

Jordy frequently goes to the top of the key to set a pick for a guard.  His defender comes out with him and often leaves Jordy to help prevent a drive by the guard.  If the guard flips the ball back to Jordy at that moment for a three-point shot, Jordy's defender is out of position for a block and out of position for a rebound.  If Jordy's defender sticks with Jordy, the guard has a lane to the basket.

[hhcmatt]

1 hour ago, AuroranHusker said:

If Jordy can make at least 37% of threes, why not?!

 

He's only making 39.1% of his twos

[AuroranHusker]

Just now, hhcdimes said:

 

He's only making 39.1% of his twos

 

Obviously not this year, #32 needs to make layups/dunks at the moment... Jordy did make some prior to NU, so it's certainly "possible" in the coming years to see his game expand.

[Silverbacked1]

I was thinking/seeing him as the three threat on the fast break trailer.

 

You know the secondary guy who always drills the three on the fast break, THAT could be his role.

[rahusker]

He made one in warmups at the Purdue game.