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Yahoo Sports’ Draft Live crew reacts to the Charlotte Hornets acquiring UConn wing Liam McNeeley at No. 29 in the 2025 NBA Draft.
Sam Hauser, that’s realistic, right?
No, I think he’s better than Sam Hauser like even off the bounce like he’s got a little bit more I think, I think he has more.
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Oh, Liam McNilly going to the Charlotte Hornets.
This is their 2nd pick in the 1st round.
They also picked up Con Canipple.
Uh, at number 4, how do you, you mentioned Liam McNeely didn’t shoot the ball well but was a shooter.
I also think that was also due to the system that he was playing.
There were players that were in and out for UConn that weren’t consistent.
He was also a freshman.
I don’t think they looked how they should have looked.
Therefore, he didn’t.
Yeah, that’s I felt like it was a lot of they didn’t.
The guards Hurley, don’t come for me.
Yeah, their guards honestly weren’t as good as the guards we we we we saw.
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I mean you got a guy like.
Ball, who was good but he wasn’t great.
He wasn’t Tristan Newton.
He wasn’t at that level.
You go swing, take a kid from, um, the, the West Coast.
I forgot my man’s name because he was absolutely irrelevant last year went down to the bench.
He was not, he was not good at all, right?
However, nonetheless fired.
I mean, listen, it’s a good thing you didn’t name the kid.
Oh, Mahaney, Aidan Mahaney, and you decide to name him anyway.
But anyways, for sure, because he, he was horrible.
I mean, even, even Hurley said he missed on that one.
He was not good last year, no disrespect to the kid, but my point is the guard play wasn’t as good, and with your guard play being good, being better, a guy like Liam McNeely can really benefit off that because he’s not a guy that has a lot of self-creation.
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He has to be created for because he’s a spot up shooter, moves well without the basketball, but if he doesn’t have people to get him the ball, he’s going.
Struggle.
So a lot of his shots were hard than they had to be and didn’t get a lot of clean looks.
So I think that that is probably the biggest reason why the percentage was 32%.
However, nonetheless, if you’re a shooter bro, you gotta at least be 35 or above.
32% to me is not good enough to classify yourself as a shooter, regardless how hard you look.
41% wasn’t good enough for someone to classify themselves as a shooter in your eyes.
That was Jace Richardson.
He shot 41 from 3 and you say he’s not a shooter.
He’s 6’1.
He’s your height.
I’ll take 6’1.
Is your stats you what it.
