In case you guys didn't see this little exchange on Twitter:

He's not qualified. No college coaching experience.

Sure wish he could've been there to help Bean improve his shot in the off-season. I love Bean as much, maybe more, than most, but it baffles me how he couldn't have gotten connected with someone to reconfigure his shooting form.

flying_scotsman2.0 wrote: ↑

May 2nd, 2022, 10:50 pm

Sure wish he could've been there to help Bean improve his shot in the off-season. I love Bean as much, maybe more, than most, but it baffles me how he couldn't have gotten connected with someone to reconfigure his shooting form.

I think every Aggie fan was so frustrated with his 46.5% 3 point shooting his senior season. Especially, considering such a minimal improvement over his 23% 3 point shooting from the year before. Why didn’t anyone work with him on that?

flying_scotsman2.0 wrote: ↑

May 2nd, 2022, 10:50 pm

Sure wish he could've been there to help Bean improve his shot in the off-season. I love Bean as much, maybe more, than most, but it baffles me how he couldn't have gotten connected with someone to reconfigure his shooting form.

Justin worked tirelessly for two off-seasons with a shooting coach that is renowned for his work with NBA players.

Okay, calm down. I said his form sucked. He obviously shot the 3 at a good clip, but it was notable that he was hesitant to shoot against aggressive 3 point defense, and rightfully so, he was blocked several times this season.

Was this renowned shooting coach onboard with shooting from the chest?

Like I said, I think Bean was a great player and a great Aggie, he was possibly the best rebounder to ever play at USU, his midrange jumper is money, and he developed into a good three point shooter. But don't tell me his 3-point form was awesome. It was terrible. As bad as I recall seeing.

flying_scotsman2.0 wrote: ↑

May 3rd, 2022, 1:19 am

Okay, calm down. I said his form sucked. He obviously shot the 3 at a good clip, but it was notable that he was hesitant to shoot against aggressive 3 point defense, and rightfully so, he was blocked several times this season.

Was this renowned shooting coach onboard with shooting from the chest?

Like I said, I think Bean was a great player and a great Aggie, he was possibly the best rebounder to ever play at USU, his midrange jumper is money, and he developed into a good three point shooter. But don't tell me his 3-point form was awesome. It was terrible. As bad as I recall seeing.

If changing his form would have resulted in an even better percentage, sure…. but I will take a higher percentage of makes over “perfect” form.

what is good form anymore! Look at a lot of NBA players and their form is terrible, but they still can shoot. I think at this point you work on getting better, more consistent, which he did, that changing form. Not sure when a good time is to change form, but i don't think it's while you're playing d1 ball.

Mark Jackson was chided for his shooting form coming out of St. John's in the mid-80's. They said he shot 'crooked'. He countered that it didn't matter as long he shot it the same way every time, he'd be just fine, and he was. Sort of like a golfer with a natural cut will know to aim a few yards left every shot.

He played about fifteen years in the NBA, and while coaching the Warriors, he used to beat Steph Curry in horse.

Well either way, hopefully he has an illustrious NBA career and makes us all proud!

Mark Jackson is considered a bad shooter. They used to leave him open on purpose. And he probably beat Steph 2 out of 10. Maybe Steph was afraid of losing playing time.

Blitz79 wrote: ↑

May 3rd, 2022, 1:57 pm

Mark Jackson is considered a bad shooter. They used to leave him open on purpose. And he probably beat Steph 2 out of 10. Maybe Steph was afraid of losing playing time.

He has such an odd release.

I think we'd be surprised at how good of a shooter a 'bad' shooting NBA guard really is. Horse is obviously different than a game. Jackson only played one year in college with the three-point line and his NBA prime was pre-three-point mania, where shooting a three-pointer was considered high-risk and almost a waste of an offensive possession.

Frank Layden was actually a visionary in this regard. He pulled John Stockton aside after his rookie year and told him he needed to become a really good three-point shooter to be successful. His first three seasons, he was sub-20% from behind the arc.

Why isn’t there any stability in the womens BBALL program. Asst coaches have come and gone same with players. They lost their best player and scorer Quezada who transferred to SDSU - she was a transfer from another program so a two time transfer.

All the new transfers into USU this year are from smaller schools who havent produced much at those schools

SpectrumMagic wrote: ↑

May 3rd, 2022, 4:58 pm

Why isn’t there any stability in the womens BBALL program. Asst coaches have come and gone same with players. They lost their best player and scorer Quezada who transferred to SDSU - she was a transfer from another program so a two time transfer.

All the new transfers into USU this year are from smaller schools who havent produced much at those schools

When a season ends and you only have two players carrying over to the next season's roster (without a coaching change), there's typically only one place to point.