NEWS: Iowa State star transfer Milan Momcilovic has committed to Kentucky, he told @On3.
The 6-8 sharpshooter averaged 16.9 PPG this season, leading the country in three-point percentage at 48.7%.
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NEWS: Milan Momcilovic has committed to Mark Pope and Kentucky.
Momcilovic was the best shooter in the country this past season, and by far the best remaining player in the transfer portal.
Mark Pope gets his big fish.
Something that drives me crazy about how fans evaluate shooters.
Kam Williams shot 28-78 from three this year. That's 35.9%. The narrative: he's not a great shooter, question mark on his game, can he really space the floor at the next level.
You know how many more threes he needed to make to be at 41%?
Four.
Four made threes over the course of an entire season is the difference between being labeled a guy who "isn't elite" and being called an elite floor spacer. That's one extra make every 6 games. A shooter's bounce. A rim that rims in instead of out. A night where the ball just falls.
This is the thing fans almost never account for when they're torching a player's shooting reputation on a message board. The difference between a 36% shooter and a 41% shooter on that mid-volume is not some massive talent gap. It's variance. It's sample size. It's the randomness that lives inside every shooting percentage at the college level.
And yet the perception gap between those two numbers is enormous. One guy gets questioned. The other gets coveted by every high major fan in the country. Same player. Four shots.
Be careful how quickly you bury a shooter based on a percentage. The margin is almost always smaller than you think. #BBN
NEWS: Washington transfer guard Zoom Diallo has committed to Kentucky, he announced.
The 6-4 sophomore averaged 15.7 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 4.5 assists per game this season.
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