>Poole will bring a different element to the Wizards with his volume 3-point shooting. He takes and makes a ton of threes, to an extent no Wizards player has in years. Poole has made 200-plus threes each of the last two seasons, while Davis Bertans was the last Washington player to reach the mark back in 2019-20. Poole last season attempted 637 threes which would have been a Wizards franchise record. That is 41 more than any Wizards player has ever taken in a single season! Put another way, he took more threes last season than the Wizards’ top-3 guards Bradley Beal (219), Monte Morris (204) and Delon Wright (119) did… combined.
Impressive. Still hoping Corey picks up some tips from him and uses him as a shooting partner. Last guy Corey was picking up tips from and using as a shooting partner was Bertans.
>Poole’s defining strength may be his free throw shooting, as he is unusually good at knocking down shots from the charity stripe. In fact, he holds an 87.81% career clip from the free throw line. If he had enough attempts to qualify for the all-time leaderboard (he’s 281 short) that would rank 19th-best in NBA history and just behind Dirk Nowitzki (87.88%).
That is amazing. That’s another place our young guys (Deni, Corey, Gaff) can learn from him. For our young core to develop, they need to talk to, be around and practice and play with vets like these. I can’t imagine anything Poole was doing on the Warriors will translate due to the completely different positions of being in the playoffs with hall of famers to being on a rebuilding team with guys that can’t even score 30, will translate, but there are definitely pieces our young guys can pick up from JP. Can’t wait til training camp.
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>Poole will bring a different element to the Wizards with his volume 3-point shooting. He takes and makes a ton of threes, to an extent no Wizards player has in years. Poole has made 200-plus threes each of the last two seasons, while Davis Bertans was the last Washington player to reach the mark back in 2019-20. Poole last season attempted 637 threes which would have been a Wizards franchise record. That is 41 more than any Wizards player has ever taken in a single season! Put another way, he took more threes last season than the Wizards’ top-3 guards Bradley Beal (219), Monte Morris (204) and Delon Wright (119) did… combined.
Impressive. Still hoping Corey picks up some tips from him and uses him as a shooting partner. Last guy Corey was picking up tips from and using as a shooting partner was Bertans.
>Poole’s defining strength may be his free throw shooting, as he is unusually good at knocking down shots from the charity stripe. In fact, he holds an 87.81% career clip from the free throw line. If he had enough attempts to qualify for the all-time leaderboard (he’s 281 short) that would rank 19th-best in NBA history and just behind Dirk Nowitzki (87.88%).
That is amazing. That’s another place our young guys (Deni, Corey, Gaff) can learn from him. For our young core to develop, they need to talk to, be around and practice and play with vets like these. I can’t imagine anything Poole was doing on the Warriors will translate due to the completely different positions of being in the playoffs with hall of famers to being on a rebuilding team with guys that can’t even score 30, will translate, but there are definitely pieces our young guys can pick up from JP. Can’t wait til training camp.
He’s never seen a shot he didn’t like