It's Official: Blazers now the worst 3pt shooting team in the league

Surprising on one hand, unsurprising on the other. We've shown we're better 3 point shooters than this. However, this is a team playing out the string, hoping at best for a 1st round playoff exit. It's taken emotional body blow after emotional body blow and is just burned.

 

We are now officially the worst 3-point shooting team in the league

http://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2011.html

Is this the result of a faulty offensive system or lack of shooters?

Also, our overall FG% is only better than the Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets, Indiana Pacers and Milwaukee Bucks.

With those stats, its amazing that we're even above .500.

However, on a bright note, we're the second best FT% in the league.

 

Re: We are now officially the worst 3-point shooting team in the league

Oops, did not see that a thread about this was started already...

 

Re: We are now officially the worst 3-point shooting team in the league

I think you just answered your own question. We, obviously, have guys who can shoot when they have their feet set and don't have to rush their shot. However, put them in an offensive system where they are constantly rushing shots to bet an expiring shot clock and their percentages suffer. Everyone shoots better when they are relaxed and have time to get their shot off. A by-product of Nate's grind it out iso based offense is a very large percentage of the Blazers' shots are rushed/forced as the shot clock expires. That definitely contributors to the team's poor FG% and league worse 3FG%.

BNM

 

Re: We are now officially the worst 3-point shooting team in the league

No disagreements here.

 

Re: We are now officially the worst 3-point shooting team in the league

That sounds like a generalization more than anything. We may be league leaders at taking shots with <5 seconds, but I'd like to see some stats on that, if there are any.

 

if we are really "playing out the string" I'd prefer to do an aggressive rebuild and trade the vets, another futile playoff performance does us no good

 

Re: We are now officially the worst 3-point shooting team in the league

yet we were 4th in the league in 2008/09

 

we were a lot of things back then

 

And it's not like the team are jacking up shots as soon they touch the ball in this offense.

The Blazers are still dead last in pace.

 

Re: We are now officially the worst 3-point shooting team in the league

Before every team in the league learned how to stop the Roy iso/kick out. They all made the adjustment. What has our coach done in the 3 years since to counter that adjustment? Nothing, he just keeps trying the same old predictable shit hoping it will magically start working again.

And, if you want to disagree and claim we simply had much better 3-point shooters back then, why hasn't our coach adjusted his offensive game plan to suit the talents of the players on his roster? If our guys really are the worst 3-point shooters in the league, why does our coach insist on running an offense that's so dependent on personnel that are above average 3-pointer shooters? If we don't have guys who can consistently make 3-pointers, why do we shoot so many?

BNM

 

If ever there was conclusive proof that the three-goggles need to be put in a hole and buried, this stat is it.

 

HAHAHAHAHA... Very good point.

 

Speaking of the goggles, Kentucky's Terrence Jones used them last night after he drained a three.

 

He is a guy I would love to get in the draft.

 

Too bad he won't be on the table at 16 or 17 where we're likely to draft after our imminent first round exit to the Spurs or the Lakers.

 

So you are saying you think we make the playoffs . . . I like your optimism.

 

You can spin it as you like, but IMHO this just proves that Nate's offense is wrong for the current players. An offense that requires the team to constantly chuck-n-duck with the shot clock expiring *isn't working*.

Yes Nate, the players have to make their shots - but as the coach, you have to come up with plays that give them shots they can actually make!

 

At the current rate they're playing? Yeah they look like they should win around 43-46 games and get the 8th seed. Which, in my humble opinion, is just where you don't want to be as a team. If you are on the verge of a rebuild/re-tool/overhaul you need quality assets and holding on to expiring contracts like Miller, Joel (and Camby if the lockout goes for awhile) means you lose them for nothing and net yourself a pretty mediocre draft pick. Woo hoo!

 

I think kind of the opposite, 7th/8th seed means you get to play in the playoffs and really the draft pick would be about the same as just missing the playoffs. Blazers are likely to lose but having a chance to knock the two time defending champs out of the playoffs . . . how epic would that be if they pulled it off.

But I get what you are saying about giving up something now for a better future. I was behind the Blazers when they did taht before. But personallly I just rode out one of these rebuilding through youth and draft picks and am really not ready to get on that ride again so soon. I'm looking for Cho to bring the superstar to Ptd and bypass the six year patience stage.

So I'm not against trading the vets, but draft picks are only fun in the summer or you got a top 5, IMO.