Recipe for Disaster: Jump shots without offensive boards

[footey]

Our team seems to have morphed into a jump shot happy offense.  This works in games like SA when we hit everything in sight. It fails miserably when we can't hit the ocean, like the second half of last night's ATL game.  The team's proclivity for shooting jump shots is not on any one player. Sure, Baby deserves part of the blame, but there is plenty to go around. KG seems to have stopped trying to post up. Ditto all of the starters (save Pierce). Even Jeff Green seems to have given up attacking the glass the way he did when he got here. 

What makes this development especially frustrating is seeing four opposing shirts, and no green ones, positioned for the rebound. The odds of a Celtic getting an offensive rebound is minuscule.  The team's defensive philosophy seems to prohibit attacking the offensive glass in order that the team can get back to stop the break at the other end.  I wish Doc would re-consider this philosophy. It seems like we should have at least one of our bigs crash the offensive glass, without compromising our transitional defensive scheme.

We had a similar problem last year that was corrected in the play-offs until the end of the Laker series, where it came back to bite us.

I wonder if the players subliminally stay out of the paint to avoid turning an ankle or a knee, as that is where most of serious injuries occur. Figuring no point in risking that until the play-offs. 

[PosImpos]

The team didn't just morph into a jumpshot happy offense.  It has been a bad habit that the team falls into for the last couple years.  Even the '08 team lacked inside scoring and relied too much on jumpshots at times.

[slamtheking]

the recipe is jumpshots, period.  This team needs to drive to the basket with PP, Rondo and Ray or have KG, Shaq, JO on the box as the primary offensive option.  Jumpers have their place in any well-rounded offense but outside of Ray, the rest of this team should be taking the majority of their shots within 12 feet of the basket.  West, Wafer and Green are all capable of driving to the basket.  BBD is far more affective within 12 feet of the basket. 

[mmbaby]

This is great analysis, footey. At the end, you pondered if they are taking all the jumpshots to stay out of the paint due to fear of injury before the playoffs, and I am thinking the same thing. With so many back to back games and well...just so many games, period, we really have to protect ourselves from injury at this point.

Maybe this is what Doc is thinking. If I were him, I'd really really really be worried about injuries.

TP

[LB3533]

You're not going to see this team stop shooting jumpers.

We pass way too much on this team that creates open shots.....

Jumpers are part of our offense.

If you want more FGAs within 10-12 feet you can kiss good bye the good ball movement.