Who is the best shooter in college basketball? Any real fans out there?...3rd time ive asked this......?

Question

Best pure shooter? Best clutch shooter (pressure shots at the end of games)? and Best contested shooter? (hitting shots with a man in his face)

i have asked this 3 times now, and never got more than 3 answers..........COME ON IT IS ALMOST MARCH.....WHERE ARE THE MADNESS JUNKIES???

WOW MICHAEL JORDAN HAS ELIGIBILITY LEFT? WHO IS HE PLAYING FOR? SEEMS LIKE THIS WOULD BE A BIG STORY AND I HAVENT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT IT

acie law is the best clutch shooter? PLEASE READ THE DETAILS AS THIS IS A 3 PART QUESTION...............

when did i say acie law wasnt the best clutch shooter? i was responding to the guy that put Law, but didnt designate which category. Law is my answer for that as well.

Scheyer is way too unproven to say he is the best pure shooter today.....humphrey and lofton would both put this kid to shame in a gym

and as far as contested.........chris lofton by a long shot.....did u see Tennessee vs. Texas? Lofton buried a 3 from 40 feet with Durant in his face! (7'5" wingspan)......this was to go up by 1 with a minute or so left to play........tennessee won....that is clutch and contested there!

so basically what you are arguing is Neitzel would be the best "scorer" in college basketball. the best pure shooter is someone who has the best accuracy from a deep range. does neitzel shoot 40 foot jumpers? i dont think so. all you are saying is he puts up so many points. durant is averaging more, and i gurantee you chris lofton has more 30 point games than neitzel or anyone aside from durant. so your argument for the best scorer is marginal at best as well. good try though. excessive sports knowledge huh?

obviously you havent seen chris lofton play or you would know that he is hands down the best contested shooter in the land. he shoots better with a man in his face. probably the best pure shooter as well, but i will leave that open for opinion. thanks for the answer

LET ME CLEAR UP SOME CONFUSION WITH NEITZEL...............lets look at his stats over the past 3 years compared to lofton.........

In 04-05 Neitzel averaged 3.5 pts per game with 31% 3pt and 38% overall........Lofton had 13.2 pts per game with 47% 3pt and 49% overall (more points better percentage)

In 05-06 Neitzel had 9 pts. per game with 40% 3 pt and 41% overall........Lofton had 17.2 per game with 44% 3pt and 47% overall (more points and better percentage)

this year: Neitzel has 18.5 per game with 41% percent 3pt and 44% overall.........Lofton has 20.4 per game with 43% 3pt and 47% overall (more points better percentage)

wow, does that clear anything up for you? he also has the best range in the country, better in the clutch than neitzel, and shoots better when contested

BY THE WAY, HE IS ONLY 6 FEET EVEN, so your argument that Drew is 5'10" is pointless as well. My point is that Neitzel doesnt even belong in this conversation. thank you mr expert!

man, all im asking is for you to not shoot your mouth off about things you dont know....surrounded by superior talent??? hahahahaha, Lofton has been the entire team since he got there. he is the entire focus of every defense he faces. it doesnt matter if all 5 guys guard him, he will bury his shots. field goal percentage is by far the BEST measurement of being the best shooter. Pure shooter means making jump shots. And anytime you are talking pure shooter, you are talking long range (beyond the 3 pt line). Did people say JJ Redick was the best pure shooter ever because he could nail a jumper from the free throw line? nope. the numbers tell all. i realize lofton had more playing time early on, and it has nothing to do with pts. per game......but his ppg along with his percentages destroy your argument (if you ake more shots and have a higher %, you are better). the only reason i am appauled by your claims is because it is obvious you have never watched Lofton play.

you just tried to explain the deal with his height. Lofton is an inch or 2 taller than Drew, so he experiences the same problem. He buried a game winning 40 footer in Kevin Durant's face for god's sake. Neitzel is the best shooter in the land huh? I would put at least 5 people in front of him. Neitzel may be a better all around player than Lofton (which seems to be what you are arguing without even knowing it), but standing there and taking set jump shots is what a pure shooter is. by the way, i have no problem with people disagreeing with me. It was your comment that irritated me (that i rejected Neitzel once out of ignorance), when in fact, you are the one who is ignorant to the facts(the stats never lie!). Neither one of these players will see the NBA, but Lofton has a slightly better chance.

also, the most irrelevant thing about this is he can shoot left handed and right handed??????????? that makes him a better shooter? that simply means he has the option to go either way. Is a switch hitter who bats .150 better than somebody who bats .350 but can only hit right handed? Don't get me wrong it is pretty amazing that Neitzel can do this, but it doesn't at all relate to how good of a shooter he is!

i hope i made this clear, but it has nothing to do with lofton scoring more points in his career, it has to do with lofton taking a MUCH higher amount of shots, and having a MUCH better percentage (3 point and total FG). and as stated above, Lofton has been double and triple teamed his entire career. As a matter of fact, I gurantee you he draws more attention from a defense than Neitzel. They smother him with defense and are worried about where he is the entire game, every game. You obviously don't watch a lot of basketball if you think Tennessee has good players, and if you think Lofton doesn't draw a lot of defense.

i can respect your the last things you said a little more now. i never said being a pure shooter is only 3's, i said it is shooting set shots.......simply, spotting up and shooting (pure shooter, shooting the basketball and only shooting the basketball), not shooting runners, layups, creating off the drible and then shooting.

so you couldnt argue that a team not ranked at the begining of the year is better than a team that is? LSU was ranked and Vanderbilt wasnt, who is better? just as one example. im not saying msu is better than tennessee bc they are not. i was just saying lofton draws more defense than neitzel. they have actually won a few games off going to the other guys when they double and triple lofton. how do u think the other guys score as much as they do.

anyways, i only have lofton as having the best range, and best contested shooter. acie law-best clutch and lee humphrey as best pure.

neitzel is waaay better than humphrey all around, but 60% 3pt in sec!

Answer 1

You laughed it off once out of ignorance, so I will repeat what has already been said by someone else...the best pure shooter in College basketball is Drew Neitzel...the kid is 5"10 and can shoot jumpers with either hand, left or right. He has no business scoring more than 10 points a game with his size, yet he pours it in every night...look at his games against Ohio State (both times) and Wisconsin..he AVERAGED 27 against two of the best teams in the land. I would probably nominate him for best clutch shooter as well, due to his two 20+ point second halves and because he took out Wisconsin by himself when the game was on the line.
As far as best shooter when the shot is contested...I would say either Kevin Durant or Alando Tucker. There you have it.

ADDITIONAL:
OK smart guy...so what you are really asking is who shoots the best 3 point percentage in the land AND scores a ton of points, NOT just for this year, but for their entire careers? Maybe you should just ask everyone if they want to agree with you that Lofton is the best shooter in the land? Neitzel does shoot 40 foot shots...but I am not really sure how relevant that is to being the "best pure shooter?" That is what you asked, right? You didn't ask, who shoots 40 foot shots in College basketball? Maybe you should have asked who has the best range if all that matters is how far away from the hoop they decide to chuck it from.
How many off-hand jump shots has Lofton his this year? That's right, Zero, which is why I gave the edge to Neitzel. The height comment was to emphasize that he has to work hard for his shots, and that many of them will be altered due to his limitations...meaning lower game shooting percentages. A pure shooter is not always going to have the best percentages, especially if they are taking a lot of contested shots. You are also failing to consider that Lofton is surrounded by superior players compared to what Neitzel has to work with...your %s are always going to be down when you are options 1, 2, 3, and 4 on your team for every possession. You are also going to get more wide open, easy looks when other players on the team can create their own offense, or when the defense can't get away with double and triple teaming you, which Neitzel faces every game. Strictly basing your argument on the fact that he has scored more points over his career is a joke...did he lose 3 NBA player teammates last year, cause Neitzel did, and I am fairly certain that not too many sophmores would be looked upon to score a whole lot with 3 NBA guys on their team. His first two yeas, Neitzel had one job, run an offense and pass the ball to Ager, Brown and Davis.
Bottom line, in straight up pure shooting (both 3s and jumpers) Neitzel is the best in the land.

AGAIN:

I "shot my mouth off" because one of the other times you asked this question someone else answered Neitzel and you laughed at it, which is insane for somoene claiming to know anything about basketball. I have never said Lofton was not a great shooter...I might even give him best clutch shooter in the land...but pure shooting is all Neitzel, in my opinion. You seem to continue to contradict yourself, first saying that range is the most telling factor, and then saying that a pure shot is a set shot. Which is it? Is a set shot from deep the only factor for being a great pure shooter...does that mean that Bruce Bowen is a great shooter in the NBA because he can nail threes, but can't hit a jumper inside the arc or a free throw to save his life? I would argue that Bowen isn't a great pure shooter, just a great three point shooter...and there is a HUGE difference. A great pure shooter is lights out from anywhere on the court, deep or mid-range. JJ could hit ANY shot, all day long, that was why he was a great pure shooter, not only because he could hit 3 balls. He was such a great shooter, his physical limitations did not prevent the NBA from taking a risk on him. You are altering your criteria to fit Lofton every time, first going with points, then mentioning his career, then talking about his one 40 foot shot during crunch time...so does someone who hits a 70 footer at the buzzer to beat a ranked team become the new best pure shooter?
Neitzel and Lofton shoot around the same % from the three point line, with the slight edge going to Lofton. By the way, Tennessee has much better supporting players on their team...they have 2 other people scoring in double figures, including one at over 15 points a game, which is darn good by college standards...MSU has one other player in double figures, and he is a freshman that has increased his scoring only recently, and was out for half of the season...no one else on MSU can score, bottom line...their bigs are pathetic, and their guards sometimes hit the top of the backboard on open shots...to argue that a team ranked in the pre-season top 25 is not more talented than a team not even ranked, who was not supposed to make the tournament, is assanine, at best.
Neitzel has carried the offensive load of his team more than ANY player in the land, including Mr. Durant. Defenses cannot only focus on Lofton, because other players, like the Smith boys and even Mr Chism (who scores almost 10 points a game in LESS than a half of playing time) can hurt them...other than Morgan, no one on MSU is a threat to score enough points to harm a team who focuses solely on Neitzel.
I appreciate your love for Tennessee and Lofton, but you are letting it cloud your judgment at this point. Lofton is a great college player, and so is Neitzel. Lofton is more athletic, and more explosive than Neitzel, while Neitzel has a solid command of the fundamentals, and is a good distributor as well.
As far as the NBA is concerned, check out NBAdraft.net, which is a scouting site we use that projects NBA draft picks for the next couple of years...you will notice that Neitzel is a second round projection for next year's draft, and Lofton is not even on the board...furthremore, if you click on the "stock watch" link on the main page, you will notice they did a feature on Neitzel, as his stock has risen considerably this year...I know this is totally irrelevant to the argument of who is a better shooter, but shows other people out there, namely, scouts like me, find Neitzel to be a better all around player. You mistakingly claimed that I implied Neitzel was better all around without knowing anything about Lofton (both incorrect allegations I might add), and that Lofton has a better chance at playing in the League...this site supports my argument that Neitzel is a better all around player, and will be taken in the NBA draft.
As an unbiased fan of the game, Neitzel is a better pure shooter. Lofton is a clutch shooter, and a great three point shooter as well. The contested shot argument may go to Durant by default because he can get a shot off against anyone in the game, at any time, from anywhere, which cannot be said about anyone else in College hoops...I did not mean to insult you in any way, I was simply amused by your eagerness to dismiss Neitzel as an awful suggestion, when it was most likely the closest answer. There is no way he is outside the top 5 as you suggest, and on every scout's book, he is in the top 3, if not at 1 by himself hands down.

Answer 2

Pure shooter: Scheyer at Duke. He hits the three better than JJ.
Clutch: You won't like it but Acie Law IV. How can you not consider him the best clutch shooter when it was his play single-handedly that won the game @ KU for the Aggies? Several other times this year A&M might have lost a game towards the end had Acie not stepped up to make the shots.
Most contested: Durant. Many times he's got 2, 3, 4 guys on him and he makes it.

Answer 3

I posted on the last question and haha everybody knew it was me that finds it better The rivalries in college are much more intense than in the NBA. In college many times one of the 3 biggest goals in the season is to beat your rival team. The crowd intensity is always at its height and they never let down not even for one play, wether they are down by 15 or up by 20. The crowd intensity has a really large affect on the game. The players also play their hearts out on every play and never take a play off. Every time the ball hits the floor players are diving everywhere trying to get it, players are sacrifing themselves diving into the stands for loose balls. In the NBA sometimes if its a 20+ point lead players may pack it up and get ready for next game, but in College no matter what the score if they would put their best effort foward into tying the game or trying to make a comeback. You can see the passion of the game when these college kids play. They are not getting paid unlike NBA players and they are putting their best effort foward just for the pride of their school. In college they let their emotion show, and show just how much they care about winning the game. You can see the pain of a defeat,or the thrill of victory. In the NBA not every game counts as much, and some games teams take the day off. In college the games come down to the wire at least 70% of the time. The games are closer, there are more buzzer beaters, and many more game changing plays that shift the momentum and change the outcome of the game. the NCAA Tournament is the greatest thing in sports. 65 schools playing for a chance at the crown, win or go home. There is nothing more exciting to me. I love the NBA though too, I love Basketball, I love everything about Basketball. I think there should be a seperate section for College so we can answer College questions when we wish, whether the section is less active or not. Id probably be a Top 10 answerer easily in a College Section lol. I follow North Carolina and Rutgers as you know. Im glad I incluenced this question, glad to see I encouraged some people lol I also think there should be questions about playing basketball and not just watching as well. College BBall and the NBA are great. Basketball is the best sport on the planet!

Answer 4

Pure Shooter - Jon Scheyer (Duke)
Clutch Shooter - Lee Humphrey (Florida)
Contested Shooter - Kevin Durant (Texas)

Answer 5

Acie Law

Answer 6

best pure shooter---jaycee carroll, utah state
best clutch shooter---acie law, a&m
best contested shooter---chris lofton, tennessee

Answer 7

Who else Kevin Durant. He is amazing in the 4th quarter. And he is just to big to be stopped.

Answer 8

the answer to all three questions are michael jordan