03-01-2021, 10:48 PM
(03-01-2021, 10:42 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: His shooting numbers don´t justify plays like this. He has one outlier season (48 games, 39.5%/4.8 3PA) of above average shooting. Overall he has been right around or slightly below league average from 3 (Career 35.7%). Midrange shooting is slightly above average but 40-45% aren´t enough to get plays called for him. Might be a different story if he would at least draw fouls but that´s not the case.
The problem I'm seeing is that he's really not a threat to get around his defender when he has the ball. He had that one play in the post against Harden that ended up a Dunk and then a play tonight against Vucevic on the perimeter that ended up a contested layup and free throws. That just gives defenders the green light to crowd him and take away his airspace. It's probably why he's so trigger happy any time he see day light at 27+ feet out.
On the plus side, he did swing the ball twice when he was fairly wide open for better opportunities (THJ passed out of the second one).