The other thing this team does that I don't like (and I really noticed it when I was at the game last night) is they pass up ALOT of open shots when they're inside the perimeter.
Take Hayward for example because he's been guilty of this numerous times. He'll have the ball and will literally be frozen in time, trying to figure out whether to pass or shoot. It's almost the opposite extreme from chucking 3s and I can't stand both approaches.
If you've got the ball and no one is open, then shoot it! And it's not just Hayward. Alot of guys on the team do it. If you're afraid to take the shot and help take the game over then sit down and get someone else to do it.
It's like the team is playing scared and isn't loose.
So you are okay with just chucking it, just not from three?
If that's what you got out of what I wrote, then I have nothing else to say.
My apologizes, I should have expanded on that.
No, I get the point of not being timid. I get that that.
But your demand of them to just shoot it seems strange. I know you hate their three point shooting. But a lot of what is behind their three point shooting is that the team doesn't feel timid and do just shoot it.
Where I see a few players get timid sometimes is when they have that open long two, not necessarily anywhere inside the three point line, just those say, longer than 16 out to the line. I think the players start to hear the coaching in their heads that these long twos are bad shots, so they try to assess to shoot anyway, or pass to a better shot, or try to drive to a place to take a better shot(either out to the three point line or to the basket).
It's definitely the coaching causing that hesitation. This staff wants threes and layups and does not like that 17-22 foot shot. They don't want those shots being taken.
Funny enough though, Tatum and Morris actually seem to prefer those long twos to threes and love to go iso to create that shot.