I put it on Joe because he continually calls the one-on-one 3's good shots.
He has stated that he believes the most important stat in basketball is 3-point attempts.
That type of emphasis leads to bad shot selection, which is my gripe about the offense.
The coach is encouraging this type of offense, he is not yelling at the J's when they jack up bad shots.
He uses attempts as a quick indicator before he has goes back to review the film as a measure of our pace and spacing. That doesn't mean he's advocating all the bad 3 point attempts we take, but at the same time I'd say he'd gladly take the bad attempts if in the aggregate we're taking that many more good ones. His offensive philosophy is about reading and reacting, making decisions quick. It's what they practice over and over all year, but it's all with the idea the more often than we'll find a player to take a good open shot and he doesn't want players hesitating if that shot happens to be a 3.
Now, we can disagree on the philosophy of taking many threes, I got no problem with that. And you may not like that, and I respect that opinion. But this thing of putting it all on Joe when we take bad ones is absurd. Like if you complain we missing a lot of threes, hey that's fine, that's the risk of the strategy. We can argue if they were good shots or not, and what not, but blaming the coach for players making bad decisions is simplistic in my view. Like in game 2, first half I'd say we were mostly missing good open shots, but in the 2nd half, they were mostly bad shots taken not within the framework of our offense. And I'm fine with the former, not the latter.
We want to go inside more, that's fine. There's nothing preventing our offensive scheme from doing that, if players go and execute that. Now, if you tell me, hey... Joe's not focusing on going inside when we need to. That's valid, I can accept that. In what it respects me is that I have a big issue with having Tatum bringing up the ball and/or initiating offense from the top of the key in just about every possession. I rather him find more opportunities of initiating offense closer to the rim.
I have also a big problem with the lack of off ball movement, surprisingly that issue surfaces itself when the ball starts to stick in the hands of our players, I think there's something missing there. With all this read and reacting stuff, I think there's something not quite right there... when the ball sticks, things get tough, no one seems aware enough to work the defense to alleviate the pressure on the player with the ball. Sometimes we see a Jru or White cut, but that's only sometimes. In this particular context, I put more onus on the coach than the players, even if the ball sticking is not in the game plan. But fact is our off ball movement is putrid too often.
What coach yells at their stars when then take bad shots? Very few do, and when they do it often leads to one of them being moved from the team.
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