Landry Fields has a great all around (glue) game but without a better, more consistent shot, teams will double of him and it will hurt the team. Is there hope for him? TD would be so much more valuable as well if he could shoot more consistently.

fields can't shoot?

this is silly.

he ain't allan houston, but he can hit the long range shot...as we've seen all season...

Landry can shoot already though, just seems to have hit the rookie wall past couple weeks. It's something he'll probably work on over the next couple years and get a more consistent mid-range game, but even in his rookie year it's been dangerous to leave him alone from 3.

http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/3PointS.jsp?league=00&season=22010&conf=OVERALL&position=0&splitType=9&splitScope=GAME&qualified=Y&yearsExp=-1&splitDD=

Shooting is definitely something you can improve. I think there is one problem with any person that wants to be good shooters though. When they try to improve, they work on the "Proper" form or they mimic the players they loved watching. However, since everybody has different bodies, this doesn't always work, so Fields has to find out by himself what form works best for him and hopefully he will.

crzymdups wrote:^I think David Lee is a good comparison. Reminds me of DLee - hard hard worker, good feel for the game, despite not elite athleticism.

fields is a better defender than lee, though.

PresIke wrote:

crzymdups wrote:^I think David Lee is a good comparison. Reminds me of DLee - hard hard worker, good feel for the game, despite not elite athleticism.

fields is a better defender than lee, though.

totally agree. but, still, their work ethic is similar.

and dlee wasn't so much a bad defender as he was just undersized for the PF position and trying to stay out of foul trouble and not a shotblocker. dlee was a good player... just not a great defender. and the horrible perimeter defense we had here for years made him look worse. he could have contested driving guys who beat their man from the perimeter, but he'd have fouled out after 15 minutes every night.

crzymdups wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:He's good but he has to improve and based on the work ethic, he can...

Shooting is definitely something you can improve. I think there is one problem with any person that wants to be good shooters though. When they try to improve, they work on the "Proper" form or they mimic the players they loved watching. However, since everybody has different bodies, this doesn't always work, so Fields has to find out by himself what form works best for him and hopefully he will.

I honestly always wonder about this - are some people/players just born with a natural shooting ability?

I could always shoot really well in high school and stuff - it felt like I could work on it and get better, but it also felt like it just came naturally.

I guess I've always wondered if shooting comes naturally or if it's something you can develop. I kind of tend to think that the guys who can shoot can shoot and the guys who can't will always be at a disadvantage no matter how much they work. Maybe that's crazy.

I think the "Naturally good shooters" are born with bodies that are exactly suitable for shooting, but it still takes a ton of practice. Take Ray Allen for instance. Do you think he'd be nearly as good a shooter if he didn't have that practice routine he supposedly has? There's a lot of miniature components to shooting, and to top it off, you have to make adjustments are your body becomes older.

As for the non natural guys, you can still improve. Like I said, you just have to fiddle with different forms. Some people have to not worry about making it look pretty, like Shawn Marion and Kevin Martin, and this could be the case with Landry Fields too. You have practice what works, just like how the good shooters practice at what's "Natural" to them.

And again... you CANNOT mimic another guys shot. I used to try to shoot exactly like Allan Houston, back in HS. I had the whole form down, but not the great shot. Now I'm a good shooter, but I couldn't say my shot is pretty or ugly. It's just for me. Just like how nobody should mimic Tiger Woods golf swing or Barry Bonds baseball swing. Different forms are for different bodies. It's actually motor science.