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So, um, we’re the best three point shooting team

Release the Kraken said:
Remember how disappointing the first couple months of this season were? I mean our expectations were so high - Conley can't throw it in the ocean, Green and Davis completely underwhelm and then somehow we still manage to emerge with our best team maybe since the Stock / Malone era.
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True.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
So why are we only 16th in offensive efficiency then? Lack of free throw attempts?
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Turnovers (we’ve gotten better there), lower three point attempts early in the year, no offensive rebounding... we were at a possession/shot disadvantage because we weren’t forcing turnovers and we were turning it over a ton. We also loved the midrange... we have been quite good offensively and likely get better when mike returns.
 
jom2003 said:
definitely room for improvement. adding one volume shooter such as Bertans would be a good start. Royce and Niang are both percentage shooters, but they are not really volume shooters. too few attempts
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Niang is a volume shooter... shoots as many as Bojan per 36. I’d be curious to see how many we shooting in the last 15 games. Our offense has been awesome.
 
Release the Kraken said:
Remember how disappointing the first couple months of this season were? I mean our expectations were so high - Conley can't throw it in the ocean, Green and Davis completely underwhelm and then somehow we still manage to emerge with our best team maybe since the Stock / Malone era.
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Yes because we were running nothing but iso single high screen over and over and over and over. Our offensive gameplan was trash. Some people think that Mike being out and Joe starting changed everything. It didn't. Quin ditching the iso garbage in favor of our usual blender offense is what changed things.
 
SCS said:
Yes because we were running nothing but iso single high screen over and over and over and over. Our offensive gameplan was trash. Some people think that Mike being out and Joe starting changed everything. It didn't. Quin ditching the iso garbage in favor of our usual blender offense is what changed things.
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Quin has a pattern on this. He wants to see who can create an advantage, one-on-one, and how they can do it. I think that’s an early stage of building his offense.

But slow starts are a real bummer. The likelihood that seeds 2-6 are separated by just 3-4 games is pretty high. Our December woes could cost us a lot.
 
Rubashov said:
Im not completely on board with this, i dont like us jacking up 3s for the sake of it. I remember a couple of games last year when we did that it was terrible. Gotta keep moving the ball, inside and out, attacking the paint forcing our opponents off balance.
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Jacking up 3’s for no reason?

We’re first in the league in hitting 39.1% of them.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
Jacking up 3’s for no reason?

We’re first in the league in hitting 39.1% of them.
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Last years Memphis game comes to mind, walk it up, maybe one pass, then jack up a 3, that's what I mean. I'm all for good shots as the product of ball movement but we can't just be lobbing away.
 
When were taking WIDE OPEN 3 POINTERS, then our shot selection seems to be at it's best! But forcing off-balance 3 pointers is a rescipe for disaster!
 
Rubashov said:
Im not completely on board with this, i dont like us jacking up 3s for the sake of it. I remember a couple of games last year when we did that it was terrible. Gotta keep moving the ball, inside and out, attacking the paint forcing our opponents off balance.
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You’ve submitted a false choice. As we’ve seen the past couple of weeks, good ball-moving offense can produce good 3-pt attempts. Do more of that instead of settling for floaters and mid-range jumpers.
 
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