>Go back and look at that 2017 player prediction thread. Cats
>were hyping Fultz and Dennis Smith and other wack shooting
>players. But they dissed Tatum and Mitchell , and now they
>are big time mega stars already. Why? They can shoot the
>lights out.

You can argue more attention should've been paid to Fultz's free throw shooting, and that's a totally valid argument... but he shot over 41% from 3 on over 7 attempts per game, which is definitely a significant sample size. He also shot 44% on mid-rangers, which is also respectable considering the sample size. I think Fultz just got fucked up by whatever that shoulder thing was. That, or he got insanely lucky for 30 games in college from everywhere but the free throw line. Or maybe it's somewhere between both of those takes. Who knows? It's just disappointing the kid who was so awesome in college never even got to sniff that in the pros.

Tatum and Mitchell tended to get overlooked because their end-of-season 3PT percentages that draft year weren't great, but both were hot shooters in the ACC. Mitchell's hot streak was a little more easily dismissed due to how terrible a shooter he was the other three-quarters of his Louisville career, which is valid... but, as with Fultz, people should've paid more attention to their FT shooting and used that as an indicator-- especially for Tatum, who shot like 85% from the stripe. That should've erased anyone's doubts.

I think most of the Dennis Smith cysage came from people who saw him play in HS before the injury and/or that one game where he lit up Duke from downtown. He was mostly a mediocre shooter in college.