mdbear said:
calumnus said:
mdbear said:
I am a little perplexed by Foreman's stats last year. How does a guard who shoots 85% from the free throw line and 36% on 3 pointers only shoot 36.5% from the field. Can anyone with more knowledge of his season explain?
Richard Midgley
https://tv5.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/stats/_/id/11284/richard-midgley
Can bring the ball up and initiate the offense. Likes having the ball in his hands. Not good at driving to the hoop and/or driving and dishing for assists. Sweet shot with deep range. Can't have too many of those guys. Some guys should pretty much always shoot from 3, a much better percentage/payoff shot. That is fine, it opens up the court for others.
Honestly, he is a solid pick up at this point. I think he will he fun to root for. It is the guy we use his scholarship to bring in next year that will make the difference in the program.
I don't think I understand the Midgely comparison. His field goal percentage declined every year from 47% as a freshman to 38.5% as a senior. He also shot better from the field than 3 point range in all but his senior year. Foreman's shooting percentage improved from freshman to sophomore year but then regressed in his junior year.
I remember that Midgley as a frosh was the point guard, so he was likely able to take more of the shots he liked, since he had the ball more. As a soph, he had to move over to play mostly the shooting guard, as Ubaka took over the point. In his 3rd season, Ubaka was hurt for several games and Martin Smith took over at point guard for most of those games. Midgley took more three point attempts than ever, 144, as he was basically tho only Cal player that year who could shoot threes. In his 4th season, Midgley took a lot of threes, more than twice as many attempts as Omar Wilkes and Theo Robertson combined, and both of them shot threes much better than Midgley. I don't understand why Midgley and Ubaka shot about 5 times as many threes as Theo and Omar. Maybe Braun figured Theo and Omar were not as good defensively or just weren't ready for more minutes. College teams change lineups from year to year, and a player's shooting percentage results over 4 years often depend on his teammates and whether he is getting the ball from them when he is open in spots from where he likes to shoot. Results also depend on whether a player is being asked to play different positions, and how much of a green light he has to shoot. And a player's results in his first year are not always the bar to measure him by. Especially in Midgley's case, where he became a starter right away, and teams had no idea what he could do and how to defend him. As the seasons went by, it became clear that Midgley was more of a one or two tool shooter, and they defended him better as a senior than they did as a frosh.
As for Foreman, again we need to consider his position on the team, and what he was asked to do from year to year, to look for reasons why his shooting percentage went up or down. At Chattanooga, he hardly played at all as a freshman, only 11 minutes on average. In his second season, Rodney Chatman was the point guard, and averaged 4.5 assists. Foreman was the shooting guard, and had a good year shooting. Chatman then transferred to Dayton, while Foreman transferred to Stony Brook. It appears that at Stony Brook, the team may have gone without a true point guard, or maybe Foreman played the position. In any case, he did not have a point guard as good at Chatman was, with him in the lineup to give him the ball in good spots. That, and playing in a different arena with all new teammates may have accounted for the slight dropoff in shooting percentage. Foreman looks faster and more athletic than Midgley in the tape, and looks good at creating shots for himself, especially that fade-away jumper from three. Haven't seen that often at Cal since Randle.
