Al just abominable all night, yet he got 34 minutes to Timelord's 14 minutes.
And that's all on Joe's fascination with the three ball offense and refusal to play Timelord big minutes because he provides less spacing.
For the love of God, just move on from this guy.
I don’t like the 3 ball either, but you do realize that this is how Brad wants the team to play, right?
Brad and Ime were both 3-pointer oriented, but Joe is the clear culprit that took it to the unjustifiable level. We were 2nd in the league in attempts this year, where we were 9th, 10th, 12th, 7th, and 9th the previous 5 years.
It's ironic that it was Miami that won the 3 point shooting game against us - in their wins they shot over 50% from 3. Then in 2 of the 3 games they lost they still shot effectively 40% from 3 (39% and 45%). In their Game 2 win they shot 35% and it was only in Game 4 where they shot 25%.
What's interesting is they basically shot 87-204 which was 42% vs us who shot 81-267 which was 30%. So they only really shot 6 more 3s than we did the whole series, which works out to be 1 more than us a game (they shot an average of 12-29 a game vs us 11-38). Looking at the table I put together below, 3s made up 46% of our total shot attempts in the series, vs 34% for them. Nearly half our our total shot attempts in the series were 3s vs a third for them, and we shot 30% vs 50% for them. We shot 60% from 3 for the series but didn't attempt as much of those shots. That's a recipe for a loss in anyone's book.
NBA.com hasn't yet come up with the total shot types for each team for the series, but I'd be curious to know how much of Miami's 2pt shots came out of the midrange, vs at the rim, and what was out of transition due to our missed 3s.
R FGM FGA FG% 2FGM 2FGA 2FG% 3FGM 3FGA 3FG% oFGM oFGA oFG% o2FGM o2FGA o2FG% o3FGM o3FGA o3FG%
G1 L 42 81 0.519 32 52 0.615 10 29 0.345 46 85 0.541 32 55 0.582 14 30 0.516
G2 L 37 79 0.468 27 44 0.614 10 35 0.286 42 92 0.457 33 66 0.500 9 26 0.346
G3 L 39 98 0.398 28 56 0.500 11 42 0.262 46 81 0.568 27 46 0.587 19 35 0.543
G4 W 43 84 0.512 25 39 0.641 18 45 0.4 34 78 0.436 26 46 0.565 8 32 0.25
G5 W 40 79 0.506 24 40 0.600 16 39 0.41 40 78 0.513 31 55 0.564 9 23 0.391
G6 W 34 78 0.436 27 43 0.628 7 35 0.2 33 93 0.355 19 63 0.302 14 30 0.457
G7 L 32 82 0.39 23 40 0.575 9 42 0.214 42 86 0.488 28 58 0.483 14 28 0.5
Total 267 581 0.460 186 314 0.592 81 267 0.303 283 593 0.477 196 389 0.504 87 204 0.426
Avg/Game 38.1 83.0 26.6 44.9 11.6 38.1 40.4 84.7 28.0 55.6 12.4 29.1
I don't have a problem per se with shooting 3s if they are the right shot and that are in the flow of the offense. Looking at our losses where we've shot 25% or less some are open shots, which suggest our players aren't as good at 3s as they think they are (because you should be making open 3s if that's what your offense is predicated on), but others are just shots they took because they ran out of ideas and when the lead started to swell they tried to hit home runs instead of singles, which is a discipline thing.
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