{"id":261842,"date":"2025-10-31T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261842\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:03:08","slug":"four-star-cg-joe-sterling-commits-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261842\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-star CG Joe Sterling commits to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Sterling is a big-time shooter off the basketball who made 44% of his threes, on over 8 attempts per game, during the Pro16 season. He has extreme gravity as a floor spacer (12-18 on open catch-and-shoot threes), but is also a tough shot-maker off the bounce. He\u2019s the type of threat who coaches can run off various types of screening action. Simultaneously, he\u2019s a good ball-handler, who is very adept at probing the lane and holding his dribble until he gets just enough separation for his pull-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Physically, Sterling has solid positional size, but some athletic limitations, particularly at the rim. He actually shot a lower percentage inside the arc than he did beyond it during Pro16 play. Defensively, there are some correlating concerns as well, especially when he gets extended away from the basket or put in long close-out situations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">For whatever physical gifts he may lack, he compensates not just with skill, but intangibles and feel for the game. He passes and cuts well, all while understanding what his niche is, and has been extremely well coached. He\u2019s also an elite competitor with innate competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sterling is a big-time shooter off the basketball who made 44% of his threes, on over 8 attempts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99,48781,85232],"class_list":{"0":"post-261842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas-longhorns-basketball","14":"tag-texas-longhorns-basketball-recruiting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}