re: Props to Trey’Dez Green

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Sorry, I don’t talk ball with liars. Just check them when needed

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You mean how you've been "checked" for your takes on Weeks?

Seeing get Lester get owned is priceless, Lester MacMelty! Supersize that plz

Lesty’s whole MO is making broad predictions and only coming back when he is correct

It’s kind of a shame because he should lean into what he’s good at (like his in depth baseball posts) instead of just trying to troll

Also this thread is hilarious after listening to 90% of the board saying JD5 was scared to throw downfield in ‘22

Yeah sure thing Lesty

Don’t like looking ahead.. by any chance you bring back the nuss bus. At WR, you could see green, Hilton, Anderson, one potential portal guy. This team may take a step forward.

With this being said OL may be a question mark. Losing both tackles and 1 guard. I’d say 1 portal tackle and fill the other two spots with roster players. This team could really be better next year.

I'm going to make a basketball analogy for this, which is fitting in a way since the thread was originally about a football-basketball athlete.

NBA -- Attempts of 30+ feet -- 2022-24
(Single seasons with the most attempts via Basketball-Reference. These are for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 NBA seasons. So some guys that attempted a lot of the shots both seasons are listed twice.) The list below will be the attempts on 30+ footers, % on 30+ footers, then overall shot % for that season in parentheses:

Damian Lillard - 117, .325%, (.463%)
Trae Young - 83, .313%, (.429%)
Trae Young - 77, .299%, (.430%)
Stephen Curry - 72, .250%, (.450%)
Jordan Poole - 66, .333%, (.430%)
Stephen Curry 62, .226%, (.493%)
Damian Lillard - 60, .350%, (.424%)
Jordan Poole - 55, .236%, (.413%)
LaMelo Ball - 54, .389%, (.411%)
Tyrese Haliburton - 46, .348%, (.477%)
Fred VanVleet - 46, .152%, (.393%)
Luka Doncic - 40, .250%, (.487%)
Kyle Kuzma - 39, .282%, (.448%)
Luka Doncic - 34, .147%, (.496%)
Tyrese Haliburton - 32, .281%, (.490%)


Okay, now let's hone in on the point, and avoid you getting triggered on your fantasies, or going off into some attempt of a sarcastic rebuttal that's irrelevant.
I added the overall shot % to show a more comprehensive statistic that helps illustrate the point that a player is able to have a good overall season, even if their percentage on the deep 30+ footers is relatively low. The overall % works for brevity with this list, but obviously there are many more aspects of basketball too.
Curry's 2022-23 season is especially illustrative of the point. .226% is low relative to some of the other best long-range shooters. But his overall shot % was very high, and that was the best season of his career for rebounds. Doncic's 2022-23 is illustrative too.

PI penalties are analogous to fouls drawn on 3-pointers. Some guys get to the line a lot with these shots (e.g., Harden, Curry, Lillard).
You could look at just percentages. But that's obviously incomplete. A more complete view would add in fouls drawn, and other relevant factors.

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I think very simply

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Too simply. Too projectively, and too invalidly.
You've identified your own issue again with the "stat guy" thing. You post fragmented sets of statistics again and again as if that's the endgame of sports. It's not. Statistics are a reflection of what happens on the field, court, etc. At times, if viewed with good context, they may tell you something meaningful. But at times, especially if the view is too fragmented, they may not. Then you keep misusing the word context.
As far as context for good NBA shooters at 30+ feet, it's in that list for high-volume shooters. That context is set from year-to-year by the best shooters in the league, and it doesn't extend much beyond that for two reasons. One, there aren't a lot of high-volume shooters from that range currently. And two, there were even fewer in the past. Shooting from this range with volume is a relatively new phenomenon, led by Curry. If you're familiar with the NBA, this'll make sense. If not, the analogy may not land.

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defines what is good or what is a good season

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Curry and Doncic had good seasons in 2022-23.
Nussmeier is currently having a good season.

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synonymous with success like deep throw success is for football.

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Analogies are not synonyms. They're comparisons with otherwise different things to illustrate a point. And there's more here than you realize. The effects deep shooters have on defenses in basketball are analogous to the effects of deep balls in football. Guys who have good shooting range force defenses to extend themselves to contest the shots, opening up driving lanes, and more space between defenders for short and intermediate shots. Deep balls have similar effects in that defenses are forced to put more guys in coverage and/or play deeper, opening up run lanes, and more space between defenders for short and intermediate passes.

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nice deep throw Nuss had at South Carolina?

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It was a good pass, and there have been a lot more than that, and I've referenced some of them several times. It's just that you avoid them and cling to your narrative, and keep going off into rebuttals that end up in nonsense of some form or another.

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You post fragmented sets of statistics again and again as if that's the endgame of sports

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It’s never ever an end game. But again, you cannot just contextualize the statistic for what it is because you are biased & emotional.

Stats are not biased. People are.

Me: “Nussmeier has not been good on deep balls”

you to me:

-you don’t think he’s good
-you don’t think he can improve
- that one nice deep ball vs Nicholls state proves he can throw a deep ball
-he is the Steph curry 30ft three pointer of deep ball throwing


All this irrelevant shite does not pertain to anything I’ve said.

His size alone makes him an obvious high-point target in a have-to-have-it moment, but he also appears to have big, strong hands not prone to drops, albeit our data population sample is limited.

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and they all agreed that Nuss is the best QB in the SEC.

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Depends on the day, but not far fetched. The SEC QB class has largely been disappointing