Darren Ng

Tie between Ian Davies and Darryl Pearce with Michael Johnson a close third.

Sandy Brondello. Not sure of her %'s but the best shooter I have seen.

Agree, if I had to win a game I would not hesitate to give it to P. Mills for the shot, no matter where on the court.

"Patty Mills 45% career fg, 40% 3pt fg. Talk to me when you can find another player topping that in the best league in the world."

I think the point is that we are identifying the best shooter. Just one attribute. Mills clearly has many other attributes that make him worthy of NBA rotation minutes.

Having point that out, I will only comment on Boomers level players: I'd rank our only two automatic open perimeter shooters as Mills and Broekhoff (based on his WC performance), with Goulding coming in behind. Off the dribble, I'd rate Mills and Goulding as our best since I haven't seen Broekhoff show this aspect of his shooting ability.

Great topic, especially given that this used to be a strength of Aussie players but we have slipped in this regard in the past decade with the retirement of players like Maher and Rillie.

"Need to ask, would you give it to Patty to win you a game........nope"

Tell that to Russia in the London Olympics.

Suprised no one has mentioned Broekhoff and Goulding. Newley also

Eddie Palubinskas was IMO the best Aussie shooter of all time. Andrew Gaze and Ian Davies not far behind.

As for current players, Patty, Goulding and Broekhoff.

Bogut

Gaze gets my vote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QR7ntg7mQs

Skip ahead to 5:40 and watch up to 8:00, he just takes over the game completely in an amazing finish to one of those classic Tigers/Magic matches.

best I ever saw live, any level, Pearce, McKay, D.Ng, Rillie, Heal, all amazing.

never saw Gaze live so can't add him.

Interesting that a few people are mentioning Shane Heal. No doubt that he had excellent range on his 3 point shot, but Maher has him beaten in terms of field goal and three point percentage over their NBL careers.

The Boomers had some awesome shooters in the 2000's with Gaze, Maher, Heal, Ricky Grace, Rillie and CJ Bruton...

This is a great topic but what I find the most amazing is that other than the post above which mentioned Ricky Grace, we have no other naturalised Australians and that is a good thing in my opinion but Derek Rucker was awesome when he found his ramge as my favourite naturalised.

I find it easy to trust someone like Andrew Parkinson and believe every team needs a swingman off the bench like him that can change a game on a few shots. Mike Mackay comes to mind also.

Everything I've read suggests that had more of us seen Edfie Palubiskas then we would all be singing his praise.

There are a few YouTube video's on Palbinskas who is now widely regarded as the best shooting coach in the world.

Here he teaches the follow through:

Michael Diamon & Russell Mark

This was a favourite moment for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9V21cz0eyg

John Rillie with 10 threes to eliminate the Cats in Perth.

Werner Linde worth a mention, I know he goes back a little, but have been told he was a freak. I think he played for West Adelaide.
Ian Davies and Darryl Pearce were more streaky, I would have to say Patty Mills as one of the best now.
Still the guy who is an absolute legend would have to be Gaze. His catch and release was worth watching.

Micheal Johnson (Newcastle 1982-95 364 games) career 47% from the field and Mark Gaze nowhere near Andrew as an all round player but a pure jump shooter.

I know warm ups and shoot arounds shouldn't count but Peter Hill (ex Newcastle, Sydney and Gold Coast I think) was excellent. He very rarely missed during warm ups and people used to talk about his incredible strike rate at training. Sadly his in game % never really reflected this.

Both Heal and Gaze used to take a lot of shots under heavy defensive pressure, it would be interesting if those NBA Sportsvu cameras could have tracked them during their careers to see how their % would have changed comparing open looks and under defensive pressure.

I'm with LC, as I remember being blown away by Eddie P, Ian Davies and Drewey many times. Linde sounds like he might have pushed Eddie - time to hit YouTube, I reckon.

I've got the greatest of respect for Patty, and he's got such an explosive shot that he's hard to stop, but I'm sure we've had guys who had much better range as well as better percentage. John Rillie and Michael Johnson spring to mind.

It was asked of Andrew and Lindsay Gaze who was the best shooter they had ever seen and the both replied Eddie Kardas who played VBA state league for Geelong.
David Johnson who played for the Bendigo Braves in the 80's averaged over 50ppg, now that guy could flat out shoot.

Aaron Trahair was lights out as a junior but was never able to translate his game to the senior level.

NBL stats for some of the names on this thread that I could find. Sorted by True Shooting Percentage.

Gms __P_ _FGM _FGA __3PM _3PA _FTM _FTA 2FG% 3FG% _FT% _TS% Name
612 30.9 6484 12529 1826 5005 4114 4783 .619 .365 .860 .646 Andrew Gaze
481 16.3 2835 _5996 1323 3321 _868 1015 .565 .398 .855 .610 John Rillie
110 22.9 _836 _1837 _360 _876 _485 _622 .495 .411 .780 .596 Kirk Penney
482 18.3 3083 _6500 _960 2381 1676 2033 .515 .403 .824 .595 Ricky Grace
411 22.8 3138 _6915 1169 3124 1934 2338 .519 .374 .827 .590 Derek Rucker
516 14.9 2433 _5701 1261 3128 1547 1867 .455 .403 .829 .588 C.J. Bruton
349 15.4 1853 _4153 _740 1859 _924 1151 .485 .398 .803 .576 James Harvey
525 17.0 3140 _7072 1162 2835 1499 1764 .467 .410 .850 .570 Brett Maher
440 20.6 3071 _7286 1602 4184 1321 1607 .474 .383 .822 .567 Shane Heal
252 17.8 1801 _4184 _452 1216 _431 _580 .455 .372 .743 .505 Ian Davies
364 20.9 2997 _6370 ___* ___* _832 1062 .470 .*** .783 .499 Michael Johnson
374 15.6 2206 _4875 ___* ___* _522 _655 .453 .*** .797 .478 Darryl Pearce

**fingers crossed on the formatting**

*sigh*

Numbers are there if you want to see them... cut and paste it into notepad or something.

Gaze
Eddie P (only saw him a couple of times)
Maher/Pearce
Rillie - saw JR go through so rough patches but man could he light it up.

Drewey was simply best ever.

What defines the best? FTs, 2s or 3s %? 2s can be skewed - some of the highest % were recorded in seasons by Uthoff & Wheeler. Here the best career 3s % appear to be from Penney & Maher. I'd be interested to see career % of Smyth & Radliffe who both had several seasons over 45%, Smyth with one >50% as did Foreman. I think though that anyone who saw Linde would probably rank none higher save perhaps Palubinskas.

of the best 2 shooters, i saw werner linde the most....while the shooting of palubinskas, at montreal, gave an idea to start up a 3 point line.

Here is another blast from the past - Albert Leslie (and does produce good looking daughters) lol