WIllis,are you saying it's innate or something?You don't think practice with a coach would help?Like it just can't be improved. Tell any shooter how they became a good at it.
If that's the word you'd like to use, feel free. But it's like any athletic skill. To some extent you have it or you don't. If it were different, RU could just pick any kid out of high school and make him practice enough so that he becomes an elite shooter. It doesn't work that way. I get the impression that some think it does, or at least seem to think that a player with a bad outside shot can simply develop a really good one by practicing a lot. Because it's not an obvious athletic talent, like jumping high or running fast, it gets changed into something that can be uniquely developed more so than other talents.
Sure, you can get better, like anything else, through hard work. But there will be a limit, and you've got to have the talent in the first place. There's a reason that some people are good at darts and other aren't, or are top (and actual) sharpshooters, and others aren't. Some people can make a long wooden stick hit a small ball traveling really fast that is three fee away from them better than others (it's called baseball). But that doesn't mean that you will become great at it by just practicing a lot.
All of this is to say that when I read about a player who doesn't have good outside shooting skills, and predictions that he can become a threat that way by practice, I say uh oh.
(Go back and read the articles about all the shots that Dane Miller took in the off season to try to improve his outside shooting. How'd that work out?)
