and it's disingenuous when you use it to try to claim that "there's not a SINGLE OTHER SG who shot so poorly and became good later in their career."

>it's a nice, even number. so great, in the past 14 years,
>we've had TWO guys: Harden and Rip Hamilton. and if you extend
>it to 1990, maybe we'll get to three!

there are others like Jason Terry and your boy Iverson but you want to discount them because they started out labeled as PGs despite the fact that they played SG most of their careers.

>My quick search found us
>larry hughes. woot!

why are you still talking about larry hughes?


>Rip also got traded after 3 years,

so?

>had a much better college
>statistical profile, and his splits show a CLEAR improvement
>in his rookie season, unlike Waiters:
>
>http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hamilri01/splits/2000/

their pre & post AS FG% splits are almost the same; Hamilton was shooting below .400 though February then had a good month shooting in March (while still playing limited minutes only scoring 7ppg); Waiters was shooting below .400 through January then had a good month shooting in February (while starting and scoring 16ppg). not really sure where Hamilton splits show so much more improvement than Waiters.

And Hamilton didn't even average double-digit points and couldn't crack the starting lineup on a godawful Wizards team or even manage to play significant minutes until the last handful of games in April. Meanwhile Waiters started, played significant minutes all season and averaged close to 15ppg.


>we'll see what waiters becomes. I'm not confident, the cuse
>fans are. anything else we have to add here?

besidese that you were wrong? not really.