He’s a Good Shooter, Not a Great Scorer
- Share via
On Oct. 29, The Times printed an excerpt from a book we wrote called “Rick Barry’s Pro Basketball Scouting Report.” Unfortunately, the excerpt gave the impression that we had written that new Laker guard Sedale Threatt was the second-best scorer --to Michael Jordan--among shooting guards in the league.
In our book, text following the excerpted passage--not printed in The Times--made clear that what we were saying was that Threatt last season had the second-highest field goal percentage among shooting guards.
Indeed, Threatt is an excellent percentage shooter and solid defender, but he’s by no stretch of the imagination one of the premier scorers--his career scoring average is 8.6 points a game--among the league’s shooting guards.
RICK BARRY
and JORDAN E. COHN
Los Angeles
Go beyond the scoreboard
Get the latest on L.A.'s teams in the daily Sports Report newsletter.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
