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Re: Shooter question

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or to have the same set up with a static or powered wheel at the top. any thoughts?
Well a powered wheel at the top would constitute a two wheel shooter which, in general, you WILL see much greater distance with. But, as you said, it is more complicated. The way I see it is that you should go one wheel and a sheet hood because we actually don't really need the large distances mentioned before! Aiming from more than half court would be quite the challenge, so do you really need a shooter that can go farther than that?

To note on the static wheel, do you mean free-spinning or fixed, e.g. non-spinning wheel? Having a static fixed wheel seems kind-of wasteful space and weight wise, also I'm not sure it would really even work! Just doesn't seem right...

For free-spinning, that's also a no go. I think you would get in a situation where the ball contacted the powered wheel, began to spin, and just twirled there spinning you're free spinning wheel with it!

+ on that one wheel with a hood, you also get some of that great, magical backspin
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