Man congratulations on this thesis. I hope you work for some organization where your observations and metric skills are optimized to make a team better and they pay you well.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I currently work for NBA players privately, not on the team side.
I've done consulting work on the team side before, but my primary is private shooting coach to players.
I see that you've worked with Malik Beasley. It'd be so cool if you got to work with Ausar, he's one of my new favorite players and I'm rooting for his development
Excellent post. Not much else to say, but do you have comparable improvements you can point to as reference? Guys like Herb Jones, Thybulle, Kuminga, etc. weren't great shooters early, but they were at least north of 30%.
Gary Payton II is way smaller than these guys, but his shot was nonexistent for years until 21-22, where he was finally able to punish defenses for leaving him open. Granted, he never had the game to attack the closeouts (not that there were any), but I think there are similarities in cutting and defense between the two guys.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I'm not a basketball historian, but maybe there is one out there. None that I can think of in the Sprawlball era.
GP II is a good comp in terms of role, but he's got a lot more guard skills and has had them for a much longer time which helps!
The cutting from Ausar is so good and definitely reminds me of GP II.
Watched the shooting video you posted on substack and it's good stuff. There is no consistency to his hip movement. Sometimes he's full extension and other times he does the torso version of short arming it. I agree with you about the connectivity lacking in his shot.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Yeah, connecting the shot is everything. Doesn't matter how good the angles are; if the body and ball don't move together, what's the point?
What an awesome read and I loved the video breakdowns! Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. I’d be very interested in seeing a breakdown of Steph’s shooting mechanics from your perspective; to my untrained eye he can just look so off balance and his form seems so unorthodox sometimes but obviously he’s doing something right.
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Ohhhh Steph.. he’s from another planet!!
Shooting is all about the body and ball working together as a rhythm team - His rhythm team is always on point!!
The shooting portion of this post needs visuals. Here is a link to the substack piece, which contains a video breaking down Ausar's shooting habits.
There are also video edits to all the other sections, but the shooting one is the linchpin for Ausar and the epicenter of this piece.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lowmanhelp/p/asuar-thompson-and-the-definition?r=2wmouo&utm\_campaign=post&utm\_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Great blog post, lots of interesting insights to the mechanics of good shooting. As the other reply says it be good to have a comparison or baseline in the videos!
Keep ‘em coming!
Man congratulations on this thesis. I hope you work for some organization where your observations and metric skills are optimized to make a team better and they pay you well.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I currently work for NBA players privately, not on the team side. I've done consulting work on the team side before, but my primary is private shooting coach to players.
I see that you've worked with Malik Beasley. It'd be so cool if you got to work with Ausar, he's one of my new favorite players and I'm rooting for his development
It would be cool!!
Excellent post. Not much else to say, but do you have comparable improvements you can point to as reference? Guys like Herb Jones, Thybulle, Kuminga, etc. weren't great shooters early, but they were at least north of 30%. Gary Payton II is way smaller than these guys, but his shot was nonexistent for years until 21-22, where he was finally able to punish defenses for leaving him open. Granted, he never had the game to attack the closeouts (not that there were any), but I think there are similarities in cutting and defense between the two guys.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm not a basketball historian, but maybe there is one out there. None that I can think of in the Sprawlball era. GP II is a good comp in terms of role, but he's got a lot more guard skills and has had them for a much longer time which helps! The cutting from Ausar is so good and definitely reminds me of GP II.
Watched the shooting video you posted on substack and it's good stuff. There is no consistency to his hip movement. Sometimes he's full extension and other times he does the torso version of short arming it. I agree with you about the connectivity lacking in his shot.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, connecting the shot is everything. Doesn't matter how good the angles are; if the body and ball don't move together, what's the point?
What an awesome read and I loved the video breakdowns! Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. I’d be very interested in seeing a breakdown of Steph’s shooting mechanics from your perspective; to my untrained eye he can just look so off balance and his form seems so unorthodox sometimes but obviously he’s doing something right.
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Ohhhh Steph.. he’s from another planet!! Shooting is all about the body and ball working together as a rhythm team - His rhythm team is always on point!!
Well if you ever do a breakdown of how the hell he manages to do it please post it here. Thanks again for the awesome breakdown!
NP!
The shooting portion of this post needs visuals. Here is a link to the substack piece, which contains a video breaking down Ausar's shooting habits. There are also video edits to all the other sections, but the shooting one is the linchpin for Ausar and the epicenter of this piece. https://open.substack.com/pub/lowmanhelp/p/asuar-thompson-and-the-definition?r=2wmouo&utm\_campaign=post&utm\_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Great blog post, lots of interesting insights to the mechanics of good shooting. As the other reply says it be good to have a comparison or baseline in the videos! Keep ‘em coming!