You do realize most of his shots were layups or within 6 feet right? The wizardy of Curbelo was how he could dribble around and next thing you know he's making an open layup. I guess you could make an argument, so many of his shots were layups or floaters, or little fall away 4 footers, maybe we don't know how well he shoots. But that very poor 3 pt % is not a good indicator.I read the chatter regarding Belo and the fallacy that he can’t shoot. I’m so tired of seeing that.
We can all agree, I believe, that he wasn’t himself in most of the games he played thus far this year due to injury.
I believe the consensus is that he concussed in pre-season and played without accurately being diagnosed with post-concussion symptoms that have kept him out for two months now. Obviously, the severity of the injury was much more complex or severe than originally diagnosed. Likely, we can all agree on that.
So we really have just his freshman year to judge or asses his shooting ability.
I would suggest that most people that present the opinion that he is not a shooter, do not realize his shooting percentage as a freshman was .498 (109/219). That includes his poor 3 point shooting of .161 (5/31)
All indications are that he dramatically improved his 3 point shooting in the freshman to sophomore jump.
Unfortunately, due to the injury, we don’t quite know that.
But shooting 50% overall as a freshman most certainly doesn’t lead me down the path of “he can’t shoot”.
I will take Belo and his freshman skills and shooting for the next 2 or 3 years all day, every day.
Let the development of his three point shot come as it will.
But enough already that he can’t shoot.
You can see the shot charts for individual players for many games on ESPN, and Curbelo's points came overwhelmingly from the paint. It's ok for our players to have weaknesses. Hopefully with his injury he's still able to shoot and can work on that shot, because a Curbelo that shoots 35% from 3 is a stud.