Rudy Gobert knocks down some corner 3’s in practice
I guarantee if anyone on this sub was in a gym with Rudy, he would be the best shooter you have ever seen in real life (aside from when you attend an NBA game as a fan).
These guys are absolutely insane.
A lot of non-shooters in the league can shoot. They just can’t shoot against NBA defenders.
Or playing at an NBA pace.
Ya it’s the pace. Rudy doesn’t have a high release either, which means he can’t just shoot over everyone the way Brook Lopez, Porzingis, and Jokic can.
Porzingis’ isn’t particularly high either but it’s a lightening quick flick of the wrist and his extra couple inches of height probably helps him too. Lopez and Joker for sure are over the head.
Trebuchet shots
Or doing 50 other things in between shots. Easy to get in rhythm when youre just chucking the same shot over and over and not screen, rim running, transition defense, rebounding, getting fouled, etc.
lmao they could give the ball to Gobert at start of possession at the 3pt line and the defense would give him the entire shot clock to shoot it without any pressure
I think it’s more mental than anything. Shooting is a precision skill, like swinging a golf club. Imagine if every time you tried to swing a club, someone was shouting and jumping in your face while an entire stadium watched you and booed if you missed lol
It’s also speed. You might have a shot that is butter, but if you can’t get it up fast enough, you’re worthless.
True, but Gobert would be left wide open to take his time. Bad shooters often get a ton of time to get their shot off because nobody is concerned about them shooting it.
Literally any possession that ends with a Gobert 3 would have the defense thanking the lord.
Yeah this changes quickly when shots start to fall
Sure, but first he needs to make a few.
They don’t leave him wide open at the perimeter, though. Granted, he’s rarely, standing in the corner. But when he gets the ball at the 45 they usually guard him.
I think the size of NBA players makes the speed deceptive. They don’t necessarily look like they’re moving that fast because these guys are almost exclusively 6’4” or taller. Their size makes the distance look smaller.
But if you’re there in real life, it’s easier to see that they’re covering a HUGE amount of distance because you have perspective to see that they’re also huge people.
yep and if you ever get court seats to d1 college or NBA, its even crazier how fast they are for being that big
Ya when I watched a game up close the court felt small to me, and I realized it was because they’re so big
It’s not speed, think about it, gobert isn’t getting guarded at the 3pt line at all
Have you ever done suicide runs in a high school sport? And then try to practice your shot/swing/throw right afterwards? Same concept here.
That’s part of it, too.
I still remember seeing a clip of Westbrook (this was after his Lakers stint too) taking a bunch of practice shots and he was swishing them consistently.
Crazy how even the “bad shooters” are insane at shooting.
I tend to agree but you also have some people out of the league that all they can do is shoot but can’t shoot against NBA level defense. Could be a lack of skill or just a lack of being physically gifted.
https://streamable.com/h6miq
This is the case with lots of non NBA players too
“Can’t get his own shot” has ended the NBA career of countless college All-Stars.
Anyone remember Scotty Thurman?
I remember seeing a video of Andre Drummond playing at the Y and that mofo was shooting 3s like it was nothing.
Shaq shoots lights out from all over the floor if it’s not in a game. Once the games started the dude couldn’t even hit a free throw.
I was lucky enough to watch Jazz warmups courtside a few times when Gobert was in the team. I always tell people Gobert would put the best rec league baller you know on skates. They refuse to believe it
I played with a guy who played overseas in Iceland. Not even Spain, France, Australia, etc. Iceland. No disrespect.
This dude was the quickest, most athletic, most skilled guy I’ve actually played with. He was only like 6-1, but my god, he was unbelievable. He could score 30 without breaking a sweat in college.
Another guy on the team started his career at a P6 school, but was a bench warmer. In lowly NAIA ball, he was an automatic bucket and an elite passer.
These guys could never sniff an NBA roster, and they are better than 99% of people in this sub.
People don’t realize how “bad” rec league players actually are when compared to even low level college players.
This thread comes up twice a year but the worst NBA player is by far the best basketball player 99% of people will ever see. They could come to your lifetime fitness and score every single time. If you’ve ever played against someone that’s even high level D2 they can probably shoot better than 99% of people you will ever play against.
Not just basketball, but all sports. I played against guys who went D1 (bench) in every sport I did in hs and the gap between me and our best players who usually played at worse colleges was comical.
I’ve played with lots of guys that played d2 and they can all shoot way fucking better than Rudy
If Rudy pulled up to those games of you and d2 guys, he would score literally every single possession and not a single point would be scored against him in the paint
NGL the only reason I disagree with you is because I don’t think Rudy has the handles to take the ball from half court and I don’t think he has the hands to catch the shitty entry pass his teammates would probably be throwing
At least not 100% of the time
Maybe he wouldnt score every possession but he definitely wouldn’t be scored on a single time
you can watch a video of kosta koufus destroying hoopers w jumpshots. bro shot 4 total 3s over his 10 year career and missed all 4.
https://youtu.be/oasIw-jgbNg?si=aK8nrNdXHbIxpJdt
I met Austin Reaves during his Asia tour and it included a picture, an autograph and watching a live shoot around.
He was bricking everything lmao, I know he was just being lazy about it and he was definitely tired from travel but it was funny to see.
This is just not true. He’s a 63% free throw shooter for his career which is perfectly comparable to HS and college player’s free throw percentage and a great indicator of how good a shooter is. NBA players are insane, obviously, but what makes Gobert an NBA player is not his shooting ability and we don’t have to pretend like he’s a great shooter by any standard to highlight how good NBA players are.
If you’ve ever played against a good college or even HS guard who shoots more than 75% from the FT line you’ve certainly played against a better shooter than Gobert, and if you play a lot of indoor basketball (in a big city at least) then that’s not unlikely at all
It’s not true. This whole line of thinking has become so popularized now that people are convincing themselves Rudy is a better shooter than D1 guards lol
It’s really ridiculous. NBA players generally shoot close to the same FT percentage in their first few seasons as they did in college, it’s by far the best comparison across leagues and levels for shooting ability. Gobert is not a good shooter. We don’t have to mythicize NBA players to the extent that we think Rudy Gobert would be the best shooter that anyone of the over 17 million basketball fans on this sub, a good amount of whom have played at least at the high school level and play consistently in gyms, have ever possibly played with or against. It’s just silly
The way these types of discussions always play out is they start with the obvious point that there’s a gigantic talent gap between pros and people who just play recreationally. Then people make some crazy logical leaps from there. I could go around making the claim that Jokic has the best jumping ability of anyone you’ve ever met in your life, and if you deny that you’re denying the greatness of NBA players. Just silly
I guarantee Chris Paul is taller than the tallest person anybody on this sub has ever seen outside of an NBA game, if you don’t think so you just don’t get how INSANE NBA players really are compared to normal people
Stop it, you’re speaking rationally and that’s not allowed in this discussion
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You forgot the /s.
Thought it was obviously a parody of OP’s comment lmao, mb
NBA lights are way stronger than college lights
You believe that a typical college guard who shoots 75% from the free throw line is no better of a shooter than Gobert, and they would see a double digit % decrease in their FT shooting in the nba?
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I don’t think so. I’m a 70% FT shooter myself in high school. I played only high school and we’d keep track of our free throws over time. 60% FT and less shooting is really bad for Rudy. Plus I can tell you Rudy’s form is bad just by looking at it.
Some big guys just can’t shoot. Shaq was the same way. I’d outshoot Shaq in the gym any day. But these players clearly have other strengths far and beyond what I can do.
in most cases you’re absolutely correct but I think free throws are the exception here. no excuse for that lol
Free throws are very much fatigue based
I’m a pretty shit rec league dude who can make 90⁄100 free throws most of the time when I just do my 100 free throws “drill” lol
In games though I am no where near 90% though because it’s just a completely different vibe and ur fatigued
I see this said a lot but I really don’t buy it.
On my Suns Oso Ighodado is shooting 48% on free throws and Ryan Dunn is shooting 52.6%.
When watching Oso, you can see that he has no form for a jump shot. It’s not a beautiful shot that is missing because he’s tired.
It’s not that crazy that shooting is a somewhat natural skill that some random rec league players are good at but they don’t have the height, speed, strength, and other things that NBA players have that make them NBA players.
All the athletes gifted with size speed and strength to be the NBA aren’t magically better shooters than everyone you know.
…but tangent aside, I’d love to see stats on free throw shooting percentage based on the minutes played so far in a game…or even just by quarter.
If the fatigue theory is correct, we should see FT% go down throughout the game or when a player has played more minutes.
I swear anyone that says this just goes to the gym and bricks everything. I haven’t played ball in years, and could probably do this after about an hour of readjusting. It’s when we’re all defended when it becomes an issue
Not true at all and I wish this myth would die, it’s so cringe to hear. I have a friend who was a former pf in the NBA and he’s above average at shooting but nothing to write home about, I can shoot far better and I just play recreationally. He’s a great athlete though.
There’s some insane magical thinking/hero worship with these people, they think NBA players have superpowers. Most of them are just really good players that happen to be 6’7”+ with a long wingspan.
The guy shoots free throws at 63% for his career (51% so far this season). You wouldn’t have to look very hard to find a better shooter than that
I guarantee you he shoots at a much higher rate than 63% in an empty gym.
I agree, since everyone shoots at a higher percentage in an open gym than during a game. Taking two free throws at a time at various moments during a game where you’re running up and down the court is much different than finding a rhythm shooting 50 in a row in practice.
If you go to a random high school game do you think you’d see a few players who shoot above 63% from the line for the season?
Yes but there are people I know that shot 80-90% in high school basketball games. He’s a better shooter than people give him credit for and people would definitely be surprised at how much he makes, but there are plenty of high school athletes that didnt even play in college that are better shooters than him.
see: andre drummond
Played against a team of 5 from the 2014 UK team in the offseason. Cauley-Stein was just coming down the court, pulling up and draining 3s. 7’ and a good shooter, couldn’t even try to contest the shots.
Yea it’s confusing to me that you can see steph or klay and probably others just nail 3s in practice all day, but then in game they seem to cap out at 45% from 3 at best. I get that is very good, and there is the crowd, pressure, defense, all that, but you’d think some nba guy would shoot 60% from 3 for a season at some point. Maybe the human body is just limited and can’t do that, like a .400+ batting average in the mlb.
I was randomly in the university gym with Jimmer Fredette once. He was just getting up shots, and at the time BYU didn’t have a dedicated practice facility. I didn’t do much shooting so I could stealthy watch him. I swear he didn’t miss once in the 10 minutes our time overlapped.
I have had the luck to be during training with a number of NBA players and that was one of the things that surprised me most. How Centers or non shooters were hitting regularly ~70-80% of their shots as long as they were not being defended. It is absurd.
I guess it depends. Against NBA defense yeah Gobert could be the best shooter I’ve ever seen (minus pro and college players I’ve seen). He can at least get a shot off.
But Jake from my high school team is by far the best pure shooter I’ve ever seen. Dude could do nothing else but shoot but he was automatic. I’ve legit seen him make 50 threes in a row during practice but he wasn’t the most athletic. Not that fast, not that tall, no handle, no defense, but he got a spot on the team for his godly shooting. We faced a team with 3 D1 commits and that was the only time I saw him struggle to get a shot off. The other team realized he was the only way we’d realistically score so after his first 2 makes they had a guy hound him at all times and sorry Jake, you’re not getting a shot off of a 6’6 defender D1 commit at 5’9.
But just getting up shots? I can totally see Jake out shooting Gobert.
Exactly right, take out the athleticism aspect of the game and there are hundreds of thousands of better shooters than Gobert. Heralding NBA players as elite in every part of the game is asinine.
Probably but he should be practicing post moves instead of 3s he will never take in game. The amount of time I’ve seen him look lost when he gets the ball inside where he has to make a move or two is too many times for a guy of that size.
that’s foolish
just because you are unaccomplished in your basketball career, doesn’t mean everyone else is
there’s probably millions of shooters better than Rudy, they just aren’t 7’1
This is just so so untrue, being 7’1”, mobile, and durable is enough to get you into the NBA on its own. You don’t necessarily need a jumpshot at all.
This is a preposterous comment.
He’s a future HOF player and an absolute stud, but he’s a bad shooter for a high school team.
I guarantee you Rudy would cook 99% of this sub at HORSE
99% of this sub, yes. 100% of this sub and 100% of everyone this sub has ever played with or against or been on the same court as as OP’s comment implies? Absolutely not
The people in these subs that act like pro athletes are literal demi-gods are just as bad as the people that act like role players are scrubs.
There are plenty of guys out there that are too small/unathletic to crack the league or heck even D1 that are absolute snipers in an open gym with all day to shoot.
It’s weird, it’s like they can’t comprehend the concept of a gradient or a bell curve. The difference between your average casual basketball player and the worst NBA player is MASSIVE. But they assume those are the only two levels, “NBA or not NBA” when there’s a looooot of levels in between that. It’s not like the worst NBA players are leagues better than the best 500 players just outside of the NBA. You see guys who aren’t currently in the NBA get called up and perform adequately all the time. They act like the 450 players in the NBA are all the way to the right of a spectrum, and then everyone else is all the way to the left.
I agree with sverything you said, plus the fact that we’re talking about one specific skill-set. A skill-set that is
Not a major part of Goberts game, so he’s not incentized to improve all that much at it.
Isn’t that dependent on athleticism, so a very large population is capable of training it, creating a larger pool of people potentially better than Gobert (as opposed to like, dunking or something).
There was a time when I was younger that I could genuinely do a specific weight exercise better than the majority of NFL combine participants in my weight class. If I were to say that on this sub, I’d get flamed for “pretending to be more athletic than an NFL player” when I’m not. I’d have gotten smoked in literally any other measureable event. I just focused on one thing and got good at it. Just like there are regular dudes out there that can shoot the shit out of a basketball and do nothing else related to the sport at a high level.
I just need to see one Gobert three before I die
I had to look it up. 0 for 21 in his career. 21 attempts isn’t enough. He needs to take more.
Gobert is in serious danger of not breaking Zaza’s 0 for 31 record if he doesn’t step up his 3 pt attempt rate
Can he at least break all time big man great Shaquille O Neal’s record of….One?
9 of his 21 career attempts are heaves.
I’m kinda surprised he’s only taken 12 normal 3s in his career. I would have guessed he was like 5⁄50 or something for his career.
It’s 3 attempts this year. He’s gunning for one!
He took one against the Nuggets the other day whem I heard the 0/21 stat, was surprised. Even Shaq made one once lol
I hope he makes one soon just to piss shaq off lol idk why that guy hates Gobert so much but seeing shaq so mad whenever Gobert has a good game is hilarious to me
Shaq was 0 for 21 from treball before he hit his first
And then he never took another in his career
Andrew Bynum walked so Rudy could brick corner threes
Hit one with France national team, look it up on TikTok
I’m glad I at least witnessed that insane fadeaway from him over Jokic in game 7
I saw Gobert play live once in my life. In that game he has just randomly hit his only career three pointer.
I am no longer interested in watching him play
Some people want to know what one piece is before they die, other people want to see gobert make a three before they die.
I’m both of those people
I still think they should have counted this as a three-pointer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/y8l2na/highlight_rudy_gobert_gets_the_steal_and_takes_it/
I forgot what game it was but D12 hit a 3 pointer at the end of a playoff game lol.
He’s not hitting a three to make you immortal
I wish he’d show up at some street runs, just for the hilarity of nobody being able to score, and him looking like Wemby on offense against park players.
What’s that little vehicle there?
It looks like a prowler/sled with wheels, you stack weights on them and push or pull them for resistance.
Push sled.
Torque tank. Like a sled except it uses magnetic resistance, so harder you push the tougher it is. The plates on top are mostly to keep it stable
This is just “BenSimmonsPracticeVideo”. Every summer Ben Simmons would put out video (trying to convince us he had developed a jumper) of himself playing pickup ball sinking pull up jumpers and making them. You’d see like 3 or 4. But the clips would be edited and they were never connected plays. You just knew he probably missed like 80% because the best highlight clips he could come up with had his a handful of makes in it.
This is Ben practicing 3s, so he probably shot dozens.
Yet the best clip they could come up with was 3 out of 4 makes.
It’s the reality of pro players. They are ALL skilled enough to hit wide open shots during shootaround and practice, hell most D1 players can as well. But it’s not the same at the reaction and decision making speed of the full game.
By the time you’re a pro there is only so much physical improvement you can do, the rest is confidence and belief. Giannis and his FT is the best example. Dude can shoot and has solid confidence in the mid-range. I’ve seen him drain 20+ FTs in the gym, but his % never improves. It’s not a skill thing.
Montrez pulled up to like an LA fitness and was looking like prime curry out there.
“I’m way closer to LeBron than you are to me” – Brian Scalabrine
We started with the Kobe Gobert leaning post fade, then we got Rudy Chamberlain annihilating the Lakers now we are finally getting Rudy Curry in the playoffs. Sign me up
You had Rudy Kobert right there brother
We had a moment of Rudy Iverson last night too. Crossover with 3 defenders around him so he could get the ball to Naz for an open 3.
That fadeaway on Jokic in game 7 will be engraved in my mind forever.
Form better than Jeremy Sochan
No hitch
The worst NBA shooter is miles better than you.
Anyone who has gone to game and watched players warmed up should know this. I remember I discovered that fact years ago watching Chris Anderson go like 10⁄10 from a couple feet past the arc.
I would be very surprised if this was true tbh. I think pure 3pt shooting without a defender is the one aspect of basketball that theres the least difference between a “good shooter” outside of the NBA and a bad shooting NBA player
I hear he’s Sochan’s new shooting coach. But really, either of those guys are shooting me out of the gym.
Remember there was a practice that Ben Simmons wasn’t missing a single open 3. These athletes are another bread, it’s just in a game when the lights are bright with top defenders in the world, shooting in an open gym vs a real game is day and night.
Remember that random guy that got the Guinness World Record for most open 3’s in a row ended up losing to Kenny Smith in a 3 point shootout on inside the NBA?
TLDR: open 3’s in an empty gym ≠ being a good shooter in an NBA game
Young Socialite giveth and taketh
lights are bright
That’s somewhat different because he could only shoot 3’s from the top of the key. Once Kenny decided where to shoot, the guy just started making excuses.
They need to set their mindset as if real games are just practices. Don’t care who is around them
He also lost to street players as well. He let someone get in his head, granted anyone would be annoyed as hell from that whining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLuikXFm-g
People don’t understand how good NBA players are. You can pretty much take every single center (non 3 point shooter) and they would smoke your average good 3 point shooter who played basketball for awhile in their lives.
He’s literally in the nba they all can do this
Except Sochan, apparently
No doubt he’s an excellent practice shooter but his form and jump looks like a 13 year old girls jump shot
a 7ft buffed 13 year old girl
He’s gonna do it in the playoffs watch
We got some certified snipers in the comment section
I need this more than anything
But he’s been a bad FT shooter right? strange how that works
Ironically changed his form and went 4⁄6 last night 😭
FTs are all mental. Pretty sure he probably hits 90% in practice.
Rudy just wants a pass guys
5 out wolves lineup would be insane
Naz Reid, Jaden, Rudy, Beringer, SloMo
What’s the song in the background, kinda hard to hear it over all the other background noise. Kinda sounds like Keith Sweat but not sure
Hahaha, yea you got good ears. Pretty sure the song is Twisted, you can hear Kut Klose, too
Yep that is twisted lol, I knew it sounded familiar. Thanks
Seen Ben Wallace draining 3s in warmups. NBA players are otherworldly good.
How can these dudes not hit free throws then?
He’s gonna hit one of these as a dagger in the post season like his fadeaway in ‘24
Ben Simmons at an Equinox in July
He needs to be practicing free throws instead
If he shoots 1000 threes in an open gym he’ll make 500 of them
Eh I don’t think he would tbh
The G-League bench can run circles around you.
Nuggets fans will say it’s fake
https://youtu.be/3HJequFAbUc?si=C-Av7bHTmsRVFo4a
Why?
Sochan could never.
I’ve seen small college centers bang over 15 3’s in a row hardly even get possession against them. Iykyk he prolly shoots way better than this
Yes all nba players can do this…
It’s coming.
What is the little cart thing on the court? Does anyone know
Looks like a weighted cart, like a push sled on wheels.
Found it here - https://www.torquefitness.com/products/tank%E2%84%A2-mx-complete-kit?variant=42478989574302
My comment has nothing to do with Rudy or 3’s.
That sled right there saved my knees. Strap it to the waist and walk backwards.
For anyone having knee-problems I cannot recommend this exercise enough. I wandered in the wilderness of physical therapy for 12 years with chronic knee pain but within 3 months of doing this daily my knees are again healed. I can play basketball.
The goal is to get hops to be able to dunk at 42 and 5’9.
What a putrid, disconnected shot mechanics chain.
Why is he even practicing that?
And he would light up 95% of any pick up run/ men’s league in the world just by shooting 3’s
Offseason content came early
I like to imagine a world where Gobert is a 23-year-old drafted by Wolves a year after Ant, putting in the work to develop offense. Then it might actually be a legitimate debate who the most impactful player is on the team lol
Broken clock is right twice a day
Would be more beneficial if he worked on a push shot off the short roll
His touch seems really good this year with floaters and layups
AI
I will never believe this man can develop even a semblance of a shot until he improves his free throw percentage. either his shot mechanics or his shot mentality are fundamentally broken.
I always knew that boy could shoot
How’s he gonna get a rebound when he’s in the corner? 😂 Jkjk
I too, knock down corner 3’s in the gym.
Shaq how many threes you got
Saw Bill Wennington do this during warm ups back in the day before a bulls game. Just cashing three after three. Fun fact, it was the same game that Rodman headbutted the ref.
I need him to hit that 3. Could you imagine if we ever got to the finals and he hit a 3 pointer on someone. I would explode.
A _ Y _ O
Best pickup we’ve had this deadline lol.
Why is he even practicing these?
Slow ass shot. That’s why he won’t ever make any in game. You gotta practice game speed
”…and that’s the difference between, you can’t shoot and not allowed.”
These guys do only basketball - constantly - like Gobert probably shoots better than you and I in practice. Pretty sure CP3 had a Players Tribune article that said Blake shot 80% from 3 in practice. There’s a whole world to taking that to a game environment that’s a lot different than our church league.
Gobert owns Sochan
Why does he even jump lol
He’s using all arms on his form
Well…at least his shot looks a lot better than Jeremy Sochan.
I always felt like Gobert should have been given more jump shots and less post ups. The postups are uglier than the jumper
Where’s Ben simmons
That one step back midrange he hit in the playoffs was one of the funniest things
Look at that 2 inch lift
H does this all the time. I imagine all centers do. Walker Kessler did before he started doing it in game. He’s currently 17-64 in his career, but seems to have gotten a lot more efficient recently. He was 6-8 this season before going out for the year.
You should see my footage
This is like me making a layup in my backyard. Nobody gives a damm
Takes him 8 seconds to shoot this in game though. Standing there, looking at the rim deciding if he’s gonna shoot it. Probably messes him up mentally.
My 5’10 ass could block that shit.
FTP and Fuck Rudy Gobert.
Edit: Dudes releasing from his chest. There’s a reason its gym footage.
What’s ftp lol
Fuck the Packers.
How about he works on a post hook before 3’s
It’s actually crazy how long Rudy has been in the league and he doesn’t have even one reliable go to move in the post but hey keep practicing those corner 3’s