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SignUp Now!It turns out our preseason scouting report was correct.
I don't know how he ever got the reputation of being a "great" shooter. Didn't shoot well in high school, hasn't in college. I was hoping his high school numbers might be a function of shot selection, but it doesn't look like that's the case. He shoots well in certain games, but so does Marcus Smart.
I expect this terrible early season 3pt shooting to be a fluke and a mental issue, as Childress said, when we look back on it. Hopefully, it straightens itself out before it did for Kennard or Matt Jones, because it would be nice for Trent to give such an important boost to the offense this season.
If we assume Trent is at least a true 85% FT shooter (being conservative), then for him to be a true low 30s 3pt shooter would be quite an exception. You probably can't find more than a handful of 6-6-ish guards in the past few years in college or the NBA who have shot that well from the line and that poorly from 3 over their entire careers.
Russell Westbrook is close (31% 3pt, 82% FT) but not at the level of Trent from the line. Kennard's fluke 3pt season as a freshman really is the best example I can think of (32% 3pt, 89% FT), but Kennard was over 34% starting from a game near midseason. 34% is probably all we need from Trent in this offense, especially given how good he is at other things, including finishing and not turning it over.