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Camel 31

Years ago

Best Australian Shooter

of the best 2 shooters, i saw werner linde the most....while the shooting of palubinskas, at montreal, gave an idea to start up a 3 point line.

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Naph

Years ago

*sigh*

Numbers are there if you want to see them... cut and paste it into notepad or something.

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Naph

Years ago

NBL stats for some of the names on this thread that I could find. Sorted by True Shooting Percentage.

Gms __P_ _FGM _FGA __3PM _3PA _FTM _FTA 2FG% 3FG% _FT% _TS% Name
612 30.9 6484 12529 1826 5005 4114 4783 .619 .365 .860 .646 Andrew Gaze
481 16.3 2835 _5996 1323 3321 _868 1015 .565 .398 .855 .610 John Rillie
110 22.9 _836 _1837 _360 _876 _485 _622 .495 .411 .780 .596 Kirk Penney
482 18.3 3083 _6500 _960 2381 1676 2033 .515 .403 .824 .595 Ricky Grace
411 22.8 3138 _6915 1169 3124 1934 2338 .519 .374 .827 .590 Derek Rucker
516 14.9 2433 _5701 1261 3128 1547 1867 .455 .403 .829 .588 C.J. Bruton
349 15.4 1853 _4153 _740 1859 _924 1151 .485 .398 .803 .576 James Harvey
525 17.0 3140 _7072 1162 2835 1499 1764 .467 .410 .850 .570 Brett Maher
440 20.6 3071 _7286 1602 4184 1321 1607 .474 .383 .822 .567 Shane Heal
252 17.8 1801 _4184 _452 1216 _431 _580 .455 .372 .743 .505 Ian Davies
364 20.9 2997 _6370 ___* ___* _832 1062 .470 .*** .783 .499 Michael Johnson
374 15.6 2206 _4875 ___* ___* _522 _655 .453 .*** .797 .478 Darryl Pearce

**fingers crossed on the formatting**

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Years ago

Aaron Trahair was lights out as a junior but was never able to translate his game to the senior level.

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hoopie

Years ago

I'm with LC, as I remember being blown away by Eddie P, Ian Davies and Drewey many times. Linde sounds like he might have pushed Eddie - time to hit YouTube, I reckon.

I've got the greatest of respect for Patty, and he's got such an explosive shot that he's hard to stop, but I'm sure we've had guys who had much better range as well as better percentage. John Rillie and Michael Johnson spring to mind.

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Anonymous

Years ago

I know warm ups and shoot arounds shouldn't count but Peter Hill (ex Newcastle, Sydney and Gold Coast I think) was excellent. He very rarely missed during warm ups and people used to talk about his incredible strike rate at training. Sadly his in game % never really reflected this.

Both Heal and Gaze used to take a lot of shots under heavy defensive pressure, it would be interesting if those NBA Sportsvu cameras could have tracked them during their careers to see how their % would have changed comparing open looks and under defensive pressure.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Michael Diamon & Russell Mark

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Years ago

There are a few YouTube video's on Palbinskas who is now widely regarded as the best shooting coach in the world.

Here he teaches the follow through:

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proud

Years ago

This is a great topic but what I find the most amazing is that other than the post above which mentioned Ricky Grace, we have no other naturalised Australians and that is a good thing in my opinion but Derek Rucker was awesome when he found his ramge as my favourite naturalised.

I find it easy to trust someone like Andrew Parkinson and believe every team needs a swingman off the bench like him that can change a game on a few shots. Mike Mackay comes to mind also.

Everything I've read suggests that had more of us seen Edfie Palubiskas then we would all be singing his praise.

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George

Years ago

Bogut

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Years ago

Eddie Palubinskas was IMO the best Aussie shooter of all time. Andrew Gaze and Ian Davies not far behind.

As for current players, Patty, Goulding and Broekhoff.

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Bear

Years ago

Agree, if I had to win a game I would not hesitate to give it to P. Mills for the shot, no matter where on the court.

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Big Ads

Years ago

Tie between Ian Davies and Darryl Pearce with Michael Johnson a close third.

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