And you mentioned that Aldridge takes 11% of the blazer's shots from that mark; then give us a small sample size of 100 total shots by hickson at that mark? Come on man!!!! That is hardly comparing apples to apples. It's like apples to crude oil. 100 shots is like 2 total game worth of shots! Lol
Actually I would love for you to pull it out. I'm asking shots at the range you just commented on. I don't have a computer to look it up myself. Please teach me! So you think 100 shots qualify? And btw, being probably the #1 or #2 defensive assignment all game. This is why those advanced numbers are swayed. No account for the defense rather leaving a Barton or hickson open, than Aldridge or Lillard. If you disagree that isn't a factor, then I guess you won!
Actually, sorry, I was mistaken on Barton. I must have been looking at Hickson's number. My whole point here has been that Aldridge is highly inefficient with this shot, and he shoots it an inordinate amount for its value. Talking about Matthews' percentage there is pointless (and a clever misdirection on your part, I'll admit) since he shoots the 3-ball three times as often. Now if Matthews were taking the mid-range jumper 10 times per game, or even 5, then it would be a relevant comparison. If you want to talk about all shots taken outside the paint, Matthews is 135 of 335 from 3 and 44 of 109 from mid-range, which equates to 449 points from 444 shots--about 75 more points than Aldridge would get out of an equal number of mid-range shots. And if Aldridge being the #1 or #2 defensive assignment all game causes his jump shots to be inefficient, maybe he shouldn't take so many!! If Hickson is "open" every time he takes a mid-range jumper, then maybe he should be taking more. The contention that Aldridge is taking low efficiency shots because that's all he can get suggests that he's either a ballhog or a poor decision-maker. Is that really the character you want to attribute to him?
So does anyone know if the high amount of jumpers that LMA is taking this year is a product of Stotts' system or has he always been amongst the league leaders? ie Does Stotts deserve some of the blame for trying to make LMA into Dirk?
http://stats.nba.com/playerShotchart.html?PlayerID=200746 A nice shot chart of his showing %. Unfourantly it can't be broken down into how many shots are from the PnP and how many are desperation shots. He put up a lot of shots at the end of a shot clock early in the season, I wonder how that has effected the %.
http://stats.nba.com/playerShotchart.html?PlayerID=200746&Season=2010-11 http://stats.nba.com/playerShotchart.html?PlayerID=200746&Season=2011-12 He has taken a lot more jumpers this year then the last two years. I wonder how much of it has to do with how many jumpers he was taking in the first 20 games. Seemed to show up out of shape because of his surgery and took awhile to get into rhythm.
Great points, but I question the opportunity. Could it be that Aldridge is taking that many shots because the coach calls for them? Maybe that his teammates may have been shooting poorly and the bench has been dismal; that he's required to carry a much higher offensive load? It comes full circle to the quote from quick, explaining tired players fumble the ball more and miss shots. Obviously Lillard and Aldridge have taken te most shots; which is a direct result in poor shooting. It's also a bit revealing that the moment maynor came to town; Lillard is making more shots efficiently. I could only imagine if we actually had another low post scorer; the possibility of aldridges efficiency would go up as well?
Here's a heat map of his shot distribution. It takes 5 seconds to load. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/aldrila01/shooting/2013/
From that link: -Lillard takes more shots from inside the "restricted area" than LMA does (265-261), but at a worse FG% (65% to 54%). -LMA is #53 in the league in number of shots attempted from the paint (and shoots 65.1% from there). -#14 (with 192 FGA) in "in the paint" shots, at a 43.2% rate. -#1 (by FAR) in "mid-range" shots, shooting 42.3% on his 613 shots. No one else is within 100, and the next in line are DeRozan (shooting 41%), KG (shooting 45%), K*be (shooting 42%) and Al Jeff (shooting 40.6%). -Put another way, on his 779 jump shots this year, he's scored 643 points. 0.825 points per shot is like having a 41% FT shooter on the floor shooting 23 FTs a game, or a 27.5% 3point shooter taking 10 shots a game. Obviously, neither of those have happened in history. The only people who shot FOUR 3s a game at that efficiency were an old Mookie Blaylock, a young Latrell Sprewell and DeShawn Stevenson.
So that kinda looks like it goes back to what i mentioned before in this thread. Can LMA still be a good fit for Lillard and this team changing by his style of play a little bit (rolling more than popping) and cutting down on the frequency of his jumpers (more Lillard instead) and in turn become a more efficient player for us. Or maybe a better question is he willing to do that? Is Stotts willing to do that?
"Is stotts willing to do that?" --- that's the real question. Aldridge hasn't shot this many mid range shots ever in his career. It seems stotts is calling him to shoot this mid range shot. For some reason; stotts thinks Aldridge is dirk 2.0.
Maybe Stotts has tried a 1-year experiment to push Aldridge to play as well as Nowitzki. We don't know, but you keep posting your theory as a certainty. It doesn't matter to the Aldridge critique.
And even with his deficiency; he owns the league. Just imagine if he played to your liking?! Probably shaq numbers!
I questioned LA's scoring efficiency several days ago and I didn't have the stats at that time. Thank for you providing the nba.com link.
BUMP Scoring. Note FTA/game and FT % http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/p...r-game/sort/avgPoints/position/power-forwards APG ... note turnovers as well http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/player/_/stat/assists/position/power-forwards Double doubles ... almost 50% of his games played this season, including his past two since he "QUIT". http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/player/_/stat/double-doubles/position/power-forwards Trade him NOW! :MARIS61:
So you're saying he's above Z-bo and Boozer but worse than West and Millsap? A poor man's David Lee? Even I wouldn't go that far. That's why you can't just use stats.
