For me, it’s Dame Lillard’s shooting.

I recently saw a post of Twitter asking who is the best shooter of all time not including and Steph, and just as I suspected I saw a bunch of people saying Dame.

I routinely see him put in the same category with guys like Steph, Klay, Ray Allen, Reggie Miller etc and it just blows me mind that people put him at the level.

Dame is a good shooter. An above average shooter. He is not a great shooter, nevermind an elite shooter.

He is 226th all time in 3 point percentage at .3707%

The league average is usually around 36%. So he is a slightly above average three point shooter.

I will give him credit as he is good at creating his shots and hitting difficult or deep ones, but why is it that people think he is elite?

Is it because he is known for taking deep 3s? Is it because he hit a couple of clutch threes in the playoffs?

I recently asked and someone said it’s because he won multiple 3 point contests. To me, that’s like saying Ichiro is one of the greatest power hitters of all time because he hit home runs at will in batting practice. It literally doesn’t mean anything in the context of real NBA games.

It has to be the long shots right? Because I’ve also seen people say Trae is an elite shooter but he is a below average shooter so it’s got to be the depth?

What aspect of a players game do y’all think is the most overrated???

  • solodavBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Giannis - he is not a good passer.  Yes, he gets above avg assists for a player his size, but most are simply lockouts due to gravity of other defenders forced to collapse onto him.

    He is often even clumsy and off target w passes.  He’s not bad per se as he can still hit his share of kickout assists, but he is not a good nor great passer some think he is.  He’s not seeing quick and hard to see openings and threading difficult passes to the open man like a LeBron nor seeing ahead of time how people will position and react and moving in ways to create complex openings and delivering complex passes like a Jason Kidd or Jokic.

    Again, Giannis is a very basic passer who benefits from gravity and makes very simple knockouts.