So, I'ma disagree with literally everyone and say I liked everything I saw tonight except the 3pt%.
I agree with you, there was some pretty good runs of play by Timelord, Horford and Brown. I don't get why we jacked up so many 3's. They must be coached to do that.
But I don't get the complaining about the assists either. We only hit 35% from the field, we aren't going to have 30-35 assists.
Under no circumstances will you ever tell your team to "not take an open 3".
Telling your players that is just bad basketball imo.
You need the 3. Nothing else to it.
It's supposed to be the most efficient shot in Basketball.
... just maybe not when you're the 23rd place team in 3pt%. (And this might drop, after this game)
If you are open you can also drive the ball.
Errr
no?
Because being open at the 3 generally means your man went under the screen to protect a drive or your man is still inside the 3 trying to recover.
Yeah, if your open you can drive the ball. Maybe not all the way to the hoop but in. The Celtics were open by like 10 feet. There is a reason the defense is giving you that shot.
Agree to disagree.
I'ma stick to my point; 9% is not gonna win you a championship, a series, or even a single game in this league. Ever.
Agree with this point. They lost because they shot 4-42 from 3. At this level that's really inexcusable, especially given how many were open. Here's the stats on our shooting vs closest defender vs the Clips:
Basically 36 of our 42 3s were open - defined as the closest defender being 4 or more feet away from the shooter. We made 4 of 36 of those open shots, which translates to 11.1%. And obviously the ones that were more closely defended (less than 4 feet) we were 0 of 6. But it's telling that we had so many open shots, so either or both of the following points are true: 1) they worked hard to create good, open shot opportunities; or 2) the Clippers didn't (or didn't want to) defend the perimeter well. It's unfortunate that they couldn't take advantage of it, but it's really inexcusable to miss that many open shots at this level.
But we just aren't that good at hitting open 3s...we're 28th in the league in 3FG% for wide open 3s (closest defender 6+ feet away). We were 25th in the league last time I posted this, on another game thread...obviously last night's performance caused us to drop another couple of places. Our shooters are just too inconsistent. You can see below...yes you probably can't read the font, it was the only way I could fit the Celtics on to the screenshot, but you can see our position
And here are the culprits, sorted by 3FGA attempts over the season, again for wide open 3s.
It's a problem...as you say this is 3 point league these days. So many basketball plays these days focus on getting perimeter shooters open...pick and pop, drive and kick, high screens, horns, elevator screens...players at this level have to be able to make those shots. That's ultimately what they are getting paid to do.