How so? He had problems with injuries and was in a slump, but the last couple games of the playoff series he started to connected. Especially the last game. I was surprise Nate didn't go with him more because he did have the hot hand. He also will get a lot more mins which always helps a shooter.
Maybe some scout will think Jose and Rudy are amazing and want to swing a three way deal and give up cap and picks!!!
That's what I thought, too. After looking at the numbers, it doesn't seem so. Before the foul on 3/10/09, his FG% was 42%. After the foul, it was 43% for the rest of the season. If he was shying away from attacking the rim, you'd think it would've dropped afterward as he took fewer close-in shots, but it actually increased. It was the next year when things went to shit and he completely forgot about going into the middle (and shot an appalling 37%). I don't know what happened that summer. Maybe the injury he got from the Ariza foul got exacerbated in summer practice. Maybe he put too much faith in that joke of a tear drop he worked on. But he actually finished out his rookie year pretty strongly. The downward spiral began immediately at the start of the second season.
