Missed layups...

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

I cant remember the last time I watched a jazz team that misses so many layups. The Mo Cheeks and Brevin Knight years come to mind to perhaps rival this year... The "Use the Chotch'n Bank Bord!!!" All NBA team surely has at least a couple of the following players on it: Crowder, Exum, Oneal, and Mitchell.

Can you stat gurus look up our shooting percentage within 5 feet of the basket to see who is our worst offender? Who has the lowest fg% (aka most missed layups) on our team?

Also, I think that missed layups can in part be blamed by spacing since we aren't shooting the 3 ball that well. Could the Korver trade be as much about making layups as it is about making threes?

 

[infection]

Mo Cheeks? Did you mean Matt Harpring?

 

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

Mo Cheeks? Did you mean Matt Harpring?

I meant Keith McLoed. I think he had the nickname of Mo Cheeks back in the day. It may have been Keith McCheeks. Packing all dem nuts for winter.

 

[candrew]

Jae Crowder may be the worst player in the league at the rim who plays over 25mpg.

Rubio and Exum are both awful. Rubio has never been able to finish with any consistency in his career. Exum can get to the rim but he can't finish because he has little girl hands.

Otherwise they're not bad as a team - although that's mostly supported by Gobert and Favors being dunk machines.

Ingles is quietly one of the better 3's at the rim in the league.

Mitchell is very good - slightly better than last year. When he starts getting calls he'll be among the elite finishers in the league.

 

[Deleted member 5000]

We need 1 point to win a game in the final second, would you rather attempt

A) a Rubio layup from 2 foot out
B) a Mitchell mid range pull up
C) two Gobert fts
D) a Korver 3

 

[homeytennis]

B

 

[SoUjazzfan]

B all day long, followed by D. If we only need one to win C is an option. A gets us one step closer to the lottery.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Ingles is so sneaky.

Royce and Dante don’t seem to have a lot of touch.

Ricky is Ricky... some additional space will absolutely help... it isn’t like these layups are uncontested.

 

[MVP]

We need 1 point to win a game in the final second, would you rather attempt

A) a Rubio layup from 2 foot out
B) a Mitchell mid range pull up
C) two Gobert fts
D) a Korver 3

B, D, A, C in that particular order.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Ingles is so sneaky.

Royce and Dante don’t seem to have a lot of touch.

Ricky is Ricky... some additional space will absolutely help... it isn’t like these layups are uncontested.

Touch isn't Dante's issue. It's that he wants to avoid contact so he often takes off a step early and going too fast.

 

[RJF]

We need 1 point to win a game in the final second, would you rather attempt

A) a Rubio layup from 2 foot out
B) a Mitchell mid range pull up
C) two Gobert fts
D) a Korver 3

B or D.

 

[infection]

I’d take Korver free throws.