Buddy Hield, per source, hit 85 of 100 3's in front of Celtics brass today

[Geo123]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 9m9 minutes ago

Jamal Murray hit 79 of 100 3’s in Boston last week. Buddy Hield, per source, hit 85 of 100 in front of Celtics brass today in California.
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[colincb]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 5m5 minutes ago

Boston Celtics worked out both Buddy Hield and also Marquese Chriss today in California, source told ESPN. Both Rob Pelinka clients.

[jpotter33]

Wow, 85 is freaking impressive. If really like to hear what they thought of Criss.

[LGC88]

This is Curry's type of % during practice.
Impressive if he keeps that up regularly.

[manl_lui]

Buddy Hield - anything Murray can do I can do better!

[tankcity!]

Who cares, some tall stiff nailed 77 threes without any defenders around them. Watch the tape and decide if either of these guys can play against NBA players.

[Tr1boy]

Buddy Hield - anything Murray can do I can do better!

It's 6 more shots made.

Both are top shooters of the draft

[footey]

Hield is tempting, especially in a trade down scenario. Fills a need pretty fast.  Although imagine we could fill it through a FA signing.

[LarBrd33]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 9m9 minutes ago

Jamal Murray hit 79 of 100 3’s in Boston last week. Buddy Hield, per source, hit 85 of 100 in front of Celtics brass today in California.
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But the question is, how many threes would jamal Murray hit 3 years from now? 

[hwangjini_1]

85 of 100? a miserable shooter. check out dave hopla for shooting, he is the best. 

"In 2005 he shot a blistering 98.20%, making 35,332 of 35,979 shots!

Dave was 260 for 281 from the 3-point line for a percentage of 92.52% and on three occasions he was perfect from the field (263 of 263 on 6/25 at the University of Maryland, 339 of 339 on 7/28 at the CT Starters camp and 272 of 272 on 8/2 at UCLA) during his lecture."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Oelu4pzHs
http://hardwoodparoxysm.com/2014/10/20/dave-hopla-secret-best-shooter-world-there-is-no-secret/

and by the way, kris humphries once made 70 of 85 threes during a practice.

[byennie]

Who cares, some tall stiff nailed 77 threes without any defenders around them. Watch the tape and decide if either of these guys can play against NBA players.

Of COURSE everyone is going to weigh game tape more heavily, but this is valid evidence that the guy is truly an elite shooter and didn't just have a fluke season. There is nobody on the Celtics roster right now that could walk out and hit 85/100 from 3PT - and Hield hasn't even played in a game with the 3PT line that far away.

For perspective, 23 misses in 53% more misses than 15. 21 misses (Murray) is still a cool 40% more. That's a significant difference, not 1 or 2 shots.

[footey]

Wonder how Chriss looked? No mention of him. I guess he didn't win the 3 point shooting contest today!

[byennie]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 9m9 minutes ago

Jamal Murray hit 79 of 100 3’s in Boston last week. Buddy Hield, per source, hit 85 of 100 in front of Celtics brass today in California.
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But the question is, how many threes would jamal Murray hit 3 years from now?

The odds are pretty good that it would be less than 85. Shooting is by far the most advanced part of his game, and he doesn't have a whole lot to fix. He'd need to miss 29% fewer shots.

[LarBrd33]

Jeff Goodman ‏@GoodmanESPN 9m9 minutes ago

Jamal Murray hit 79 of 100 3’s in Boston last week. Buddy Hield, per source, hit 85 of 100 in front of Celtics brass today in California.
168 retweets 116 likes

But the question is, how many threes would jamal Murray hit 3 years from now?

Based on wonky math...

Hield shot an uncharacteristic .457% from three this season (surrounded by other great three point shooters... only shot .359% last season)... he managed to hit 85 of 100 open shots.  Considering that he only shot .238% from three as a Freshman, we can guesstimate that Hield would hit 44/100 when he was the same age as Murray.

Meanwhile, Murray shot .408% as a Freshman and made 79 of 100 open shots.  If Murray saw a similar jump in 3P% to Hield (from .238 to .457 = 1.92x greater), Murray would see his 3P% jump from .408% to .783% by his Senior year... and thus, if Murray was the same age as Hield, he'd hit 152 out of 100 open shots.

Pretty definitive.   

[Evantime34]

It's kind of weak that neither was willing to come to Boston for a workout and both were worked out in CA.

It is pretty funny that so many outlets had the Celtics loving Chriss at 3 and they hadn't even worked him out until today.