Tim Legler takes a look at NBA shooters and also claims that shooters are born, even though in his next sentence, he says the best shooters have incredible work ethics. Now, he may not even write his own columns, but if talent is innate - born with it - then why would you need to work hard? If you are born with it, hard work has little impact on performance. However, if shooting is a learned skill, then hard work certainly has an affect. Furthermore, Legler says he works as a shooting coach - if he believes shooters are born, isn't he basically getting paid to develop a skill that he doesn;t believe that he can develop?
The major point of his article is that he introduces the 170 club (I, of course, have a higher standard with 180 Shooter). He names Ray Allen, Dirk Nowitski and Jason Kapono as his top three shooters.
When will Steve Nash get some love? In last week's SI, NBA players picked Allen, Reggie Miller, Larry Bird, Kapono and Peja Stojakovic as the top shooters. I just don't think these people think very hard. If you force Peja to dribble to his right, he's a below-average shooter. If a player is that affected by the dribble, can he really be the fifth best shooter ever? Kapono's not even the best shooter on his team.
Nobody would pick the same top two shooters as me: Jose Calderon and Steve Nash. In 2007-08, only five NBA players shot 180%: Steve Nash, Jose Calderon, Kyle Korver, Jason Kapono and Peja Stojakovic. Korver, Kapono and Stojakovic are stand-still shooters. Calderon and Nash shoot more shots and shoot a greater variety of shots. Therefore, to me, they are the top two shooters in the NBA.
According to the comments on this article, Calderon leads the NBA this season at 193.2, as his 100% free throw shooting gives him a big advantage. Allen is 188 and Nash is 184.
I just don't understand how people continue to ignore Steve Nash as one of the greatest shooters in the game, certainly in this era, but the past five years, he is one of the all-time shooters in NBA history. A player like Kapono or Korver stands at the three-point line and shoots wide open three-pointers; if they catch and are contested, they generally do not shoot.
Nash creates 85% of his shots. The only time he gets an "easy" shot is in transition where he pulls up for a three-pointer off a full speed dribble or off an offensive rebound where he steps into his shot. Not only does he shoot a higher overall percentage on a greater number of shot attempts, but he makes more difficult shots. How do people miss this?
But, I wouldn't want to allow facts to get in the way of Legler's perceptions.
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I think your point about Nash is well taken - what he does is much more impressive than catch and shoot.
I don't think though there's a contradiction between "shooters are born" and "great shooters work really hard." We all know lots of really talented people who squander the talent by NOT working at it. And as someone with very little in-born "talent" for shooting, I think if I worked really hard, I might just get myself to mediocre. Peja and Korver have something I don't have, AND they've worked really hard to develop and hone that ability.
From the standpoint of psychology, or what I understand of it (especially based on the work of Carol Dweck), these comments suggest a different mindset. One who believes that "shooters are born" believes in a fixed mindset or innate talent. One of believes that shooter "work really hard" believes in a growth mindset or that talent develops.
Especially relevant, however, is the reaction of people with different mindsets to setbacks or failures (misses). In general, people who believe talent is innate will not work hard at developing that talent because having to work hard at it suggests that you lack the talent.
The study by Dweck that comes to mind involved fourth graders. They tested a bunch of fourth graders and when they returned the test, half of the students were told "wow, you must be really smart" and half were told "wow you must really work hard."
When they were given another test - they were told it was a harder test but it was at the same level - the kids who were told they were "smart" did worse than before and those who were told they "worked hard" did better. Their mindset, which was conditioned by the observation of the teacher, determined their ultimate success on the next trial.
Furthermore, I believe shooting is a learned skill. Now, based on innate qualities, people have different ceilings for ultimate achievement - for instance, I worked with a kid who had the stiffest forearm that I have ever seen and he could not extend his wrist normally. Therefore, he had a very low ceiling as a shooter.
However, given normal functionality, I believe shooting is a learned skill. Now, somebody may eventually prove me wrong, but never have I heard of a great shooter who did not immediately mention how many shots he took or how hard he worked. If you have to work that hard, that's the difference, not natural or innate talent.
Now, someone like Steve Nash has exceptional visual acuity. That is likely an innate talent. His ability to go from soft centering focus to see the whole court as a point guard to a fine centering focus to shoot is exceptional. In that way, he has innate talent.
Similarly, most great shooters, I believe, have a bias toward an external-narrow attention. We have four dimensions of attention, and everyone uses all four, but we tend to have one dominant mode. I believe great shooters have narrow-external attention. So, that quality is innate. However, not everyone with a narrow-external attention becomes a great shooter. In that sense, one could argue that it is a pre-requisite. But, that is simply the direction of one's attention and says nothing about inherent shooting ability. But, it does support the argument for different ceilings, as someone with the narrow-external attention has a higher ceiling than someone with an internal attention, for instance.
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