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Frank Ntilikina 16 Points Full Highlights (4/11/2018)

1,028 views · Published 12 April 2018 · 1:44 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: DownToBuck · 2018 · Sports

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So, Frank Ntilikina finished the season shooting below 40%. Well below 40%. 36.4%, if we want to be precise about it. It's basically an international standard at this point that 40% is the official cut-off line for an acceptable field goal percentage. Anything below that and you're probably a marginal player at best, and you'd better have some other strong areas to your game if you want to stick in the league.

Rookies get a little bit of leniency under this system, but not much. Nineteen-year old rookies get even more leniency, but not enough to avoid the fate of me thrashing them in my video descriptions. Especially if they have negative win-shares, as Ntilikina did.

Ntilikina's problem was that he's a good finisher, but took very few shots at the rim; the vast majority of his attempts were three-pointers long two-pointers, and he just isn't a good enough shooter to shoot a high percentage on those shots. I think Knicks fans are holding out hope that Ntilikina will pull a Tony Parker and become a better shooter over the course of his career, and they still might be right about that. It's too early to say. But I think it's fair to say that Ntilikina underwhelmed as a rookie, never having a dominant game where you could say "I see now why he was picked eighth". If I don't see portrait-mode iPhone videos of him working out with Chris Paul over the summer, I'm writing him off for good.

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