Marion shot .182 from the 3-point line his first season.
Here is a link to Thomas on nbadraft.net.
http://nbadraft.net/players/tyrus-thomas
Marion is who they compared him to at the time. Almost all of the draft people gurus were making that comparison.
Yes that's true, Marion didn't have that 3pt shot coming into the league and actually outside of Phoenix has never really demonstrated that level of shooting.
Guess I can't blame Pax for going after a guy who could be Marion because Marion is a pretty good player, but top 5 in that draft? I guess looking at Marion's numbers at the time, though, that's pretty good.
That's a fair point. Although Marion was never a good shooter. He had a couple seasons where he shot above 35% from behind the arc. But other than that he was an average shooter for the most part. Most of his offense/scoring coming from 9 feet and in. But I will agree Marion was more of a 3, stretch 4. Tyrus could not play the 3 well.
Yeah the key difference was that Marion was more of a natural 3, and he played that position for most of his career, ironically except the years he was in Phoenix and doing very well. I guess Tyrus did have a midrange shot, but he took far too many and didn't make enough of them for it too be necessarily a good shot. Another thing about Marion was the way he generated steals and was kind of a lockdown wing defender if he needed to be. Tyrus, though very good at blocking shots, I don't think had that kind of lateral quickness. All in all, a lot of Marion's success at PF was due in part to him actually being more of a SF by nature. Tyrus, though he wanted to play like a SF, never really possessed that kind of skill set from the get go.
Something else about Marion and three pointers...he shot lots and lots and lots in Phoenix and the moment he left his attempts and percentage plummeted. Whether that's a result of him not shooting well or him being outside the D'Antoni system isn't something I'm qualified to say.
