re: #tAuburnBasketball Thread

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It's not easy planning a roster in advance in college basketball, especially when you have a crucial 10 month period with a self-imposed recruiting ban.

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Not to mention Chuck Person cost us the 2018 class when we had EJ Montgomery at the time & Ashton Hagans as a silent commit.

I was thinking the same thing last night.

No its not all mental.

The only shot he really has is a 3 pt attempt. Have you seen him try to shoot inside the arc?
Can he drive and get points? no.
Can he get points inside off Offensive rebounds? No.
Is he a good defender? No. He's ok.

If you look at his stats, he is doing similar to last year. He had a game here and there where his points were pivotal but it was after Okeke went down.

He simply is no longer a high production player like he was his Freshman year.

If he is not on, he is just not going to score much.

Purifoy's shooting issues appear to be all mechanics related in my opinion.

First from shoulders up everything looks great. Arm placement, hand placement, motion, rotation all look very good.

Then move down the body when he is shooting he is leaning his upper body forward at his hips causing his shot to be more flat then normal and therefore causing his biggest issues on his shot front rimming everything.

Third would be he isn't getting vertical he's sorta jumping forward. Could be mental because he's coming up short from the flat shot mentioned above that he's having issues getting the ball to the basket. I'm definitely not a shooting mechanics expert but I can clearly see that major flaw. So for me I say put in his mind to get vertical and a hair more arc on his shot and maybe he starts drilling some of his 3s.

He is the only shooter on the team that can go from ehh to great because he has the cleanest form.

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He is the only shooter on the team that can go from ehh to great because he has the cleanest form.

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I really think that Purifoy is really affected by the move back of the 3 pt line.

Some guys have a limit on how far they can consistently hit their 3's. When I see Purifoy shoot 3's, sometimes his shot has good arc, sometimes it looks flat and almost line-drive like.

I do agree with you that I think his issues stem from his lower body not working consistent on his jump shot.

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You better send me the video on those things. It will be a short video too...

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Oh for sure it will be short. I’m just saying he’s shown he can, no clue why he doesn’t. He has probably the second best non-Okoro dunk of the year.

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Assistant coaches (and grad assistants are the ones who put in the work) do it in the offseason if they see something they can fix. The end. Not a bad take, it the fact of the matter.

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I misunderstood your take. I thought you meant HCs/staff don't try to rebuild shots

I agree that Bruce personally is not the guy to rebuild a shot. We should however bring in a full time shot doctor on staff

Chuck was the shooting mechanics coach and Bruce gave him tons of credit for how well our shooting was due to Chuck's coaching. Hell he's a POS sure but heck of a shooting coach.

Nah we gonna get "The Pistol"... Wesley