Is there any chance that for the past 2 summers, Ty has thought, or been told, don't worry about being able to shoot. Don't even practice it. And definitely don't work with any of our professional coaches on improving.
Why would you imagine this summer he will suddenly become "really really good" when he has not shown progress before? Or do you mean, he'll get really really good at the things he can do, and it's okay if shooting isn't one of them?
To say he has not shown progress is out there, but I’ll scoot past that. I understand he hasn’t made progress shooting but if you think this team last year is the same if a freshman Ty was starting at PG then you and I were watching different games the past 2 years.
For one, I think that Ty Rodgers inability to shoot is a combination of both a mental block and the fact that he was told not to. I say this because his free throw shot actually looked okay (Stephen Bardo commented this same thing multiple times) and people can go from non-shooters to reliable shooters with training between seasons (Hunter Dickinson.) Three point shooting is not hard, I have seen 6th graders get a decent hang of it over the course of a season- Ty Rodgers can become a DECENT shooter. So, I would not just outright say that shooting cannot be one of the things that he improves on, even if it is just FT shooting.
But yes, I do think he was told not to worry about shooting, because he did not need to. The coaching staff may still feel that he does not need to learn to shoot well, I don’t know. But I think if Ty and the staff want to make Ty Rodgers a DECENT shooter, it is 100% possible. Also, yes I did mean that he can get really really good at the things he already does well, even if shooting isn’t one of them.
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