This. He is trying to be a point guard and not a basketball player.
You’re ****ing high if you don’t think Donovan has the greenest of lights which is and has been the biggest problem in his development. He needs to be reigned in at all and it won’t happen.
He has a green light... to shoot 3s and get into the paint. But really, how many mid range range shots does he take a game? 1? 2? It's usually a very open shot because teams expect a 3 or a layup. It also usually comes before a big run.
Donovan turns down multiple wide open 3’s a game to shoot contested 18-20 foot contested fadeaway jump shots. Wtf are you talking about? Him doing this is part of his shooting issues. He is an amazing catch and shoot 3 point shooter. He turns those down every single game to dribble a couple times and take a horrible long 2 point shot. Donovan’s biggest issue right now is he tries to get himself going instead of having a feel for the team. Jazz were up 18, JC was rolling, sub in Donovan and Bogey, Don turns the ball over a couple times, and takes multiple bad shots to try to get himself going. Donovan/Bogey coming in and JC going out was what started the collapse last night. Donovan has decided he’s good enough offensively to not play even average defense. His offense just isn’t covering it for him right now.
Good. Donovan’s defense is atrocious and his shooting is horrible no matter where he’s shooting from. May as well take the best shots analytically if you’re going to miss 70% of them anyway.He has taken 21 shots from 10' - 19' this season. Thats an average of 2.6 shots per game.
He has averaged 20.1 shots per game. So, that means that 13% of his shots are not shots in the paint for from right at the 3 point line. For you math whizes out there that means 87% of his shots are from 20+ feet out or inside of 10 feet. So, yeah, thats wtf I am talking about.
He is also shooting 46.5% from 10 - 19 feet out which sounds pretty good. And, based on the eye test, when he hits a couple, he tends to get going.
So, wtf are you talking about?
I agree that donovan entering the game was the turning point. And gobert and bogdonovic. BUT... QUIN rode him regardless and Donovan trying to get hot from 25 feet isn't working.
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Doesn't Kawhi take a ton of shots that analytics would frown at? I'm okay with Don taking less than 3 shots a game from spots analytics would suggest he shouldn't as long as he's hitting them at a fair rate.
