It's become evident that the Nets will live and die by the three. Luckily for us, their roster is comprised of pretty crappy shooters.
I keep saying it - but they're the Charlotte Hornets without the defense. There's going to be nights that they are kept in the game by their threeball, but they're going to shoot themselves out of games most nights. They just don't have the personnel, largely like the Hornets, to play that sort of way. I'm still surprised that Charlotte has won so many games with that terrible type of offense, though they're greatly helped by the iso abilities of Batum and Walker.
I'm not sure that's an apt comparison. Charlotte shot a ton of threes last year (4th most), but shot them well (8th in 3P%). What Brooklyn is is our offense from last year: crazy volume, terrible percentage. Except they're coupling that with horrible defense, which is not exactly a recipe for success.
Hmm, I would've never guessed that they were 8th in 3P% last year. Virtually every single time that I watched them, which admittedly was only a handful of times outside of our games against them, they would shoot themselves out of games due to the God-awful three point shots they would take and miss.
Last year we took some bad threes, but I thought Charlotte was way worse and more frequent with their bad three point attempts. We took a lot, but I didn't think a significant percentage of them were actually "bad" shots. But now that I think about it, they do actually have a better roster for that kind of style than I thought - Walker, Lee, Batum, Williams, and Lin were all average to above average (and elite in the case of Williams) three point shooters at their position.
EDIT: And speaking of the Nets, they're leading the league right now with 37.3 three point attempts per game
That's 5.5 more than the league-leading Warriors from last season!
Topic: The Official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets Season Watch Thread (20-62, #1) (Read 348738 times)