When you cherry pick ridiculously small sample sizes (like 4 games) the analysis is meaningless. Korver made 9-31 threes in December 2013 over 6 games, an ugly 29%. terrible shooter, no?
A more meaningful sample might be his last 17 games, when, after getting over college adjustments and taking a higher frequency of 3s, he hit 56%. A 17 game fluke? I'd love to have a bigger sample size, sure. But an athletic and long big who rebounds and can also knock down a 3?
Regarding leading a team to tournament, Karl Malone in his freshman year did not lead La Tech to the NIT, NCAA or even the "mighty" Southland conference championship, playing against a far inferior class of teams (Texas Tech, Rice, McNeese, UL-Monroe).
Hahaha. Great post. Whitechocolate just got owned, and eagerly waiting his response.
Damn, I got so owned man. How am I going to recover? I will be back in a couple of days after I do.
First off, you said it yourself using four games of analysis is meaningless, he had a hot stretch of four games where he shot 8-11 from three, which was 1/3 of his total threes on the season.
Yeah let's use his last 17 games, because he played 30 and 17 is half of that. Out of the last 17 games, he didn't ATTEMPT a three in 8 of those which is just a little less than half. Add 3 games to that where he just made 1 three. So out of his last 17 games, 8 of them he didn't even attempt a three and 3 of them he made only one 3.
But he started taking more threes at a higher frequency and made a higher frequency of them right? Laughable, once again 20 out of his 30 games he didn't make a three. Once again 0 out of his 30 games he never once had a game where he scored 20+ points.
He took 15 shots in two games and couldn't even hit 20 points? One game he even attempted 16 free throws and still couldn't hit 20!
Since you want to bring Malone into this, his freshman year he averaged 20.9 PPG for crying out loud. While Vonleh couldn't hit 20 points once his freshman year, Malone was averaging more than 20 points a game his freshman year.
Karl as a freshman averaged 20 and 10, so I don't think it was his fault he couldn't lead them to the tourny. I would say the same for Vonleh, but he averaged 11 and 9.
Using your logic, A. Gordon during his last 17 games at Arizona he went 9-19 from three, which is a very good 47.3% from three.
Please keep on coming with the weak-sauce arguments, and before anyone brings it up again the A. Gordon supporters embrace that he isn't a good shooter, but the Vonleh supporters say he is a great shooter.