I’m gonna talk about the most asked question I get after every game: where did the 3 ball come from?
My first answer is behind the 3pt line, lol. The second answer is that I’ve worked hard on that for about 2-1/2 years. I started developing it when I came to Portland, never really used it, was more down low and it just wasn’t in the offense.
When the last season was over I took 2 weeks off and got right back in the gym and started working on my game. I would spend 2 hrs in the wee hours of the morn and come back and strictly work on the 3 ball later in the day. All that hard work payed off so far and in this system it’s my job to shoot. It’s everyone’s job to shoot, be a threat, be a scorer at all times and that’s why we’ve been successful so far. We play with 5 unselfish scorers.
via About the 3-ball « Channing Frye’s Blog.
I love that Frye worked hard at something unconventional, which is difficult to learn, and added it. In Ballard’s book (which I will be discussing at length with Part II coming this Friday-ish), he talks about how to be a great shooter you either are or you aren’t, and I believe that’s true. But I think you can work to add something to your game, particularly if it’s something very niche-ish like a top of the key three pointer as a center.
Channing Frye succeeding just fills me with happiness. Oh, Jesus, I’m starting to sound like StackMack. If I start squealing over rookies just put a bullet in my head, okay?
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