Must SEE: New Nik Stauskas backyard three point shooting video
Third point? Who gets the first two?
EDIT: Oh so now you edit your title (without stating as such) to make my post look stupid. Bad form.
What are you trying to say? Your post sounds stupid.
April 24th, 2013 at 10:23 PM ^
Now, all Nik has to do is get back to somewhere between the player he was at the beginning of the year and the player he was at the end of the season. Imagine what it would be like if he got as hot in in NCAA Tournament for six games as he was at the beginning of the season, or as Glen Rice was in 1989.
When you have a guy who can rain 3's, it changes everything.
Just focusing on that?
if only he would have done this in the championship game, argh
April 25th, 2013 at 12:34 PM ^
and somehow he missed 3 in a row .... A Maizing !
Go Blue!
I like Stauskas, but isn't this a little "look at me"???
Plus, this was the best 5-minute drill out of how many attempts? Impressive, still, but I'm sure it is not a routine performance but his best in some given time period. (Notice the video cut after the introduction)
The closest thing I've seen in real life to this was Wally Szczerbiak at the indoor pool at Miami University. He stood far beyond NBA 3 point range and made something like 45 of 50, with the first 24 in a row. We would chuck the ball football style to him, and he made shots over and over. We were just screwing around, but it was that day I realized he wasn't your average MAC player..
Yeah, no shit. I can go 70/76 daily if you give me four or five tries. What a joke.
People have been asking him to make videos. He's a man of the people.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:46 AM ^
Really? Youtube was created so people can "look at me." It's called You tube for a reason. And if anything he's posting it to let people know he's getting back to work. As for your second point, even if this was after multiple attempts (which I doubt), that makes it even more impressive because he'd be even more tired. The cut was probably because he took some warmups. He never claimed to be doing it cold. You try shooting that many shots in that amount of time and see how you're arms feel in the morning. He made 46 in a row fergodsake.
Anyone can do that in the rain, right?
April 24th, 2013 at 10:35 PM ^
Yeah, you watch the first 25 go in and you start to think "what an a**hole!" Jebus, miss one so that you are like everyone else, Nik!
I once made 17 free throws in a row
April 24th, 2013 at 11:06 PM ^
You gotta be tough to go baseline right on that court...
We'll have to wait to see what basketball announcer's tell us next year, but you may be on to something.
Impressive. Even more impressive is the fact that he's at home and I haven't even had my first final yet.
It's impressive obviously, but isn't his 3 point line too close? NCAA has it ~1 ft above the key right?
Now go hit the weight room, improve your handle and learn some defense (as you promised us).
if I see a video of Nik working on his defense.
on the Nik Stauskas informative "how to do a 360 between the legs dunk" video. Preferably with a Mitch McGary rap song in the background.
than some kid shooting uncontested baskets in his driveway. Do it in a real game with bona fide athletes defending you, and do it consistently game in and game out, and I'll be impressed. This is a little bit sad.
You people crack me up. Look at what I wrote—I used the term "consistently."
I've said on MGoBlog before more than once that Nik is going to have a really nice career here, but the hype he's gotten for what he's actually done in games is a little over the top. He's had some really good games like Florida, but he's also had a number of other games in which he was an absolute non-factor offensively. In the first loss at OSU, he had zero points 23 minutes. In the two losses to Wisconsin, he had 9 points total, going 1-9 from the three. In the two Final Four games he was 1-7 from the field in 37 minutes for a grand total of 3 points. Against Syracuse he was a big fat 0-5; luckily we had just enough from the rest of the team to make up for that.
None of this means he's a bad player, especially for being a true freshman, but neither does it prove—yet—that he's the second coming of Glen Rice.
I think a video of him just standing there for 5 minutes would be much more irrelevant.
and JB give him the green light to shoot at will. This may sound like a vague statement I know. There may be times where one will be upset if he took that shot with someone in his face and missed, but a shooter like him will easily make up for it by hitting a couple threes with a man in his face a couple minutes later.
April 24th, 2013 at 10:17 PM ^
I'm pretty sure he already has the green light.
As others have said, this is an impressive and fun video, but has little to do with the areas he needs to improve (or even the shots he gets, I'll bet he had single digit top of the key 3's all year). This is a guy hanging out with his buddies. It's nice. But it doesn't have that much to do with the type of work he needs to do in order to improve (which are mainly defense, ball-handling, and understanding game situation).
a jump shooter! The guy rebounding his shots has it easy - just stand under the basket and take it out of the net......
I hope as Nik matures and gets used to the college game more that he's going to start lighting it up all the time. He was super hot and cold toward the end of the season (mostly cold iirc). Learn some D, hit 3's more consistently, and he's the man
Meh. Some of the shots weren't going through the precise centre of the hoop.
because of the whole Canadian thing.