NBL1 South Finals MVP Amy Atwell has revealed how she became such a lethal three-point shooter.
The recently re-signed star player averaged 25.8 points last season, shooting 35.5 percent from outside the arc on 11.8 attempts per game. Her addition to the Bendigo Braves last season was a driving factor in their undefeated 2023, going 28-0 through the NBL1 South and National Finals.
Atwell explained that her knee injuries forced her to work on her outside shot, turning her into the sharpshooter she is today.
“It was all my knee injuries that almost forced me to become a great shooter,” Atwell said on the Shooting the Breeze Podcast.
“When I first got to college, all I could do for a while was, I wasn’t even cleared to run so all I could do was stationary shoot.”
“Even when I came back from ACL, I had a few knee meniscus surgeries in my second year (at the University of Hawai?i)
“My first two years at college were super low, I didn’t play a whole bunch but literally was just shooting, and shooting, and shooting.”
Without her injuries, Atwell said her setbacks allowed her to find her strength, three-point shooting.
“This is my strength, this is my go-to. Ever since then, I’ve been a three-point shooter,” she said.
Atwell explained that what originally drew her to the Braves was the resources they had to facilitate her development.
“The original decision (to go to Bendigo) was based out of the pure resources that Bendigo had to offer me,” she said.
“I really wanted to develop my game this past offseason and just focus on basketball, Bendigo was the perfect place to do that.”
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