Interesting tweets from the Trib
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Gyp Rosetti
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Okay, he's no Messiah, but can someone please tell me why Miles doesn't start ahead of Bell? I know we need some offense off the bench but is it really that difficult to figure out a way to stagger the sub patterns so that there's always a couple good options on the floor?
Gyp Rosetti
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Or am I wrong here and has Miles sucked just as badly as Bell? Because to my knowledge, he hasn't. Not at all in fact.
Because I think Sloan's coaching has a lot to do with our problems...and he's just blaming the players effort.
Oddly, among our players that primarily play the swing positions (Bell, Miles, AK, Hayward) Bell's True Shooting percentage is not the worst.
Those rankings look like:
1) Andrei Kirilenko (we are constantly told can't shoot, and who is still first on our team in these positions even though he's taken a step back this season)
2) Raja Bell (who benefits from taking almost half his shots from 3)
3) Hayward
4) Miles (who is so inconsistent that even his free throw percentage varies widely from season to season)
Miles looks better because he's substantially more productive in the non-shooting phase of his game, but Miles' shooting percentages are completely dreadful and are on a steady 4 season decline. Not the right direction of improvement for a 23 year old player.
I thought that when Miles started he did a great job like 4ast and 4-5 rebs with 16 pts. I think that Coach needs to put Miles in teh starting line up with Dwill and let Raja role with the 2nd unit. Or just let Bell play lik 15 minutes a game and give the rest to Miles and Evans.
Gyp Rosetti
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Repped. What about other stats or metrics or other phases of the game? I seem to remember about 15 games in that Miles +/- or adjusted +/- or something was very, very high.
I think that if Miles played more with the starters his percentages would go up. Because he won't be the main offensive weapon coming off the bench. Just look at the other 6th man percentages; Jason Terry, Jamal Crawford, Lamar Odom, Rudy Fernandez, Gilbert A. But I do agree its not a great line up to pick from AK, Hayward, Bell, and Miles.
That's not a bad theory but I think we've already seen that his shooting percentages were on the decline for three seasons prior to this one. In those seasons he was either starting or coming off the bench with Millsap (who was the primary bench scorer). As a result, I'm of the mind that it's unrelated.
