Fascinating piece by one of Bill Simon's writers at The Ringer if you have 15 minutes. UCLA will be an interesting watch over the next few years. Can Alford conform?

Definitely worth keeping an eye on. Hopefully we see Ball in Anaheim

Hogg shoots from pretty deep. He airballs a lot of them, too.

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Hogg shoots from pretty deep. He airballs a lot of them, too.

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He does shoot from deep but you'd have to quantify a lot for me. Can't remember more than a couple airballs from him shooting from deep this season.

I went back and watched all the games and he airballed over seven shots. Only House was close to that. Do you want me to say it in a different way? He shoots from deep and his 3 pt % wasn't good. Also, I made those stats up.

Hogg has the range but his shot selection needs improvement.

Greatest shooter in history + one of the greatest dribblers in history + a circus shot flair + cold hearted killer just as ruthless as a Bird, Jordan, or Kobe... yet all that hidden behind a baby face, everyday man physique that apparently has the feathers of some current and former players a bit ruffled on how he is kicking the NBA's ass.

Good luck on anyone becoming the next Curry.

As long as your whole team has bought into the "let it fly" system, then it can absolutely work. I half jokingly suggested this last season but the only player on our team that had good value consistently taking two point shots was Tyler Davis.

Despite having Davis, one of the best two point shooters in the country, we were barely inside the top 70 in two point field goal percentage (51.3%.) We weren't exactly awesome at shooting 3s either (34.1%, so almost exactly the same value per 100 shots), but I imagine if you know that's the plan going on we'd have gotten some better looks from three.

Combine that with the fact that we were pretty good at offensive rebound rate and we almost should have abandoned the two point game. That's especially true of a few specific players.

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Anyway, back to the bigger picture, the further you can shoot from, the more it spreads out the defense which is only going to help your offense more.

So as long as these guys can hit from above about 33-34% out there, I say make it rain.