I'm kind of like a non athletic tony Allen who can't really jump. I'm 6'4 with a 6'10 wingspan, and I can't shoot. I pride myself on "containment" defense, namely making sure their shot is contested. Not big on steals, but once in awhile it's a block party out here. Can play bigger than my size on the boards due to good fundamentals on boxing out (grew early so I was always a undersized center or big forward at medium sized schools) and my nutty long arms.
My offensive game is mainly cutting hard to the basket. If I have a big size mismatch I can take it in the post and do post fades pretty well.
Mostly I'm used as a roll man on the wing because I can set hard screens. If I'm feeling good that day I can also dribble and pass pretty well. If we are up I like to do no look passes lol. Was addicted to rondo fakes for awhile.
That's interesting Future of Stevens. Do you buy into the theory that Really long arms make it harder to shoot from deep, but better for Rebounding and defense.
Well yea they as you know are better for rebounding and defense. I don't really know where I fall on the long arms debate. Most of my life I kind of used the big hands shooting argument to explain away my shooting woes. Interestingly enough, I could never shoot the deep ball, but my senior year of high school I shot 86% from the ft line. I don't really know where that fits into the long arm theory.
I think that shooting is mostly mental/repetition. I never developed a long range routine, because people saw the 6'0 6th grader, and believed the doctors who said he would be 6'11. Well once I stopped growing in 8th grade, I never had developed any shooting skills, so I never got that shooting from deep foundation down to pump up the repetition.
So long story short I'm on the fence with it, I know of the correlation that exists, but I'm not sure it effects much KG.