Bradshaw shot 38 for 51 in his final year of HS basketball. Which is just shy of 75%.
He's a perfectly capable free throw shooter, and with numbers like that, from a 7 footer, there's no need to take him off the court.
Is it realistic to hope for 10/7 out of Bradshaw?
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Bradshaw shot 38 for 51 in his final year of HS basketball. Which is just shy of 75%.
He's a perfectly capable free throw shooter, and with numbers like that, from a 7 footer, there's no need to take him off the court.
The HS/AAU scouting reports would show that Aaron is perfectly capable of making his free throws, so any coaching staff would figure he's fine to keep in the game. Once again, he's no where near Shaq levels of bad free throw shooting lmfao.
He's played like 3 games, maybe the college game has him shook and he turns into a poor FT shooter.. but there's no way of knowing that after only 3 games and no reason to think it will happen based on his HS stats.
Cal made the correct call to leave him in the game, and he happened to go 2-4. This isn't some giant Cal screw up that you desperately want to make it out to be.
He's played like 3 games, maybe the college game has him shook and he turns into a poor FT shooter.. but there's no way of knowing that after only 3 games and no reason to think it will happen based on his HS stats.
Cal made the correct call to leave him in the game, and he happened to go 2-4. This isn't some giant Cal screw up that you desperately want to make it out to be.
That's fine. Maybe we shouldn't pay attention to their stats this year at all, and just start whoever was the best in high school. That's an AWESOME way to run a lineup. Got any more genius ideas, Einstein?
We are fortunate he hit the one he did, although we still had a time out to spare. He saved us big time on the mitchell 3pt air ball!
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Yeah, for you to go root for someone else. You and guys like UKjennings never shut the **** up about Cal. You're weirdly obsessed trying to fabricate things he does wrong.
Please, just go root for Duke, or literally anyone else.
Bradshaw played 2 games before UNC and he was 3 for 6.. in his first ever college games.. after being a 75% free throw shooter in HS. For the last time, there wasnt/isn't some glaring weakness in his ability to make free throws. He's clearly been making them at a higher clip than the majority of other 7 foot centers.
The right play was to keep him in (or if we must, someone like Tre and Adou), use his size to help even get the ball inbounded and not have a TO, and hope that he can at least hit a few free throws, which he did.
I could also make another argument that Bradshaw needs this experience. I would not have liked it if he missed ALL his free throws and we lose, but that was very likely not going to happen. And instead, we put him a pressure cooker situation, late in the game, which he will need to be accustomed to come March.
Mountains of of mole hills, people..
The right play was to keep him in (or if we must, someone like Tre and Adou), use his size to help even get the ball inbounded and not have a TO, and hope that he can at least hit a few free throws, which he did.
I could also make another argument that Bradshaw needs this experience. I would not have liked it if he missed ALL his free throws and we lose, but that was very likely not going to happen. And instead, we put him a pressure cooker situation, late in the game, which he will need to be accustomed to come March.
Mountains of of mole hills, people..
Needs to become more of a defensive presence/stopper and become the recipient of lobs.
You only sub like that when you need either a 3 or you have one player is a great defender and can’t score at all or great offensive player in foul trouble. You have a 7 footer in there to throw to so the defense can’t get to them. And to be fair Bradshaw FT shooting was at that time a very limited sample data. Even now it is not fully clear. It’s going to go up or down.
It is hating when the thread was about Aaron Bradshaw having good stat numbers. And it got highjacked to Cal can’t coach.
I think so as well. It felt like he took a step back against Louisville but maybe part of that was Huntley-Hatfield played so well (was Louisville's best player by far I thought). Bradshaw looked great against UNC so it's clear that the potential is there and we need him in the lineup for major minutes for the rim protection.
I think you are right 100% on this one. Also if by some miracle Z can get eligible, and then up to game speed we have 3 7 footers 2 of which can play out plus Mitchell and Thiero. That’s an incredible front court that would be paired with arguably the best back courts in the nation.
lol you can sub like that for any type of strategic maneuvering. It isn’t just limited to whether you need a 3 or a good defender in the game. Is there some rule on this that nobody knows about? 😆
I don't see it that way. Yeah, 54+% from the line is poor but he's getting under three FT a game right now and making just under 2 of them. (A hard fraction to conquer at that amount.) Also, he is hitting 66.7% on three pointers but averaging less than one attempt a game. The shooting is there, let the numbers expand before proclaiming he is a proven bad free throw shooter. Give da brudder a chance... (Saw several claim he'd never play for UK.... so...)
Da "bentafit" of the doubt....
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Of course he has, especially when he played multiple big men. He would leave a lot of our guys in who were known to clank FT’s because he’s never taken them very serious, which is crazy considering a team cost him a National Title for that reason.
You guys need to temper your expectations. He isn’t AD. He’s a much less finished product. He may have games where he gives us those numbers but more realistically it will be less.
In SEC play he will average 11/8/3 IMO But he will have a few 25 /13 type games too.
Well honestly if Big Z is aloud to play and we are splitting time with 3 7footers as well as some situational small ball with Mitchell at the 5 10 and 7 would be very impressive
