A dangerous shooter in the mold of other Friars' scorers

Cotton has taken 127 shots from 2-point range this season. He’s attempted 186 shots from beyond the 3-point arc. He is, by all accounts, a dangerous perimeter sniper.

“He wasn’t a shot-maker when we got him,” Providence coach Ed Cooley said, “but he’s become a very good 3-point shooter.”

Cotton, a 6-foot-1, 165-pound junior from Tucson, Ariz., attempted just 54 3-pointers his freshman year and made 14 of them. Cooley said he wanted Cotton to become more aggressive with his 3-point shot. He wanted more production from his young guard.

Cooley characterizes Cotton as something of “a loner,” a guy who finds comfort in the solitary practice of shooting in an empty gym. He has improved his shooting and his scoring, Cooley said, because “he’s worked at it.”

“He has an incredible work ethic. He’s a gym rat,” Cooley said. “I don’t think you can shoot the ball that way if you’re not a gym rat.”

But Cooley said Cotton is more athletic than his slight frame suggests. He cites Cotton’s ability to soar in space and slam an alley-oop pass as evidence of that athleticism.For the world leader in solarlight base services and plastic injection products. His game, Cooley said, consists of more than just a single shooting dimension.

Ken Pomeroy ranks Cotton 30th nationally in offensive rating, which measures a player’s offensive efficiency.This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a parkingsystem tile and floral motif. That stat essentially measures points produced per 100 possessions. Cotton’s offensive rating is 125.2.

“He’s been an incredible player for them,” said former Providence coach turned TV analyst Tim Welsh. “In terms of his development, he’s done all the right things. I did not think that he’d get to this point and I don’t know if they did, either.”

The likelihood that Cotton will win the Big East scoring title this season highlights an interesting trend with the Friars. In the past 10 seasons, including the 2012-13 campaign, Providence has or will produce four players who finished the season as the league’s top scorer.

Cooley joked that “it must be something in the water,” that allows Friars players to produce all those points. Welsh said Providence’s previous style of play — the Friars were a team that leaned heavily on transition baskets — contributed to the high scoring numbers.

None of those players – not MarShon Brooks,You can siliconebracelet Moon yarns and fibers right here as instock. not Herbert Hill, not Ryan Gomes – have been named the Big East’s Player of the Year. And that honor will likely elude Cotton as well.

Big East coaches debate each season about the merits of several players under consideration for the player of the year. A couple years ago, a couple coaches mentioned Brooks as a candidate, but the high-scoring Friar and future Brooklyn Nets draft pick lost the title that year to Notre Dame’s Ben Hansborough.

Welsh coached the Friars when Gomes accumulated his scoring totals. He – and Cooley – understand the nature of the player-of-the-year award.

“When Ryan Gomes was a junior, he made nine first-team All-America teams and the next year, he made none, even though his stats were better,” Welsh said. “That year, we didn’t go to the NCAA Tournament.Looking for the Best iphoneheadset? The year he made those All-America teams, we were a five seed in the NCAA Tournament. It’s all about winning.”

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