In the playoffs, there will be no four road games in five nights runs. In theory, our shooters' legs should be fresher. No worries.
The Blazers focusing on the 3pt shot isn't a bad thing. The problem is they've overdone it a little bit. Championship level teams have shot a lot of 3's in the past (Miami, SA, Dal, Orl, etc). All those teams however were better in other areas like fastbreak points, pts in the paint, etc. They could get easier shots. People hate him, but Charles Barkley pretty much nailed what kind of team the Blazers are.
I'd like to see their attempts get down to the Dallas Mavericks (2011) level of 21.5 3PA/gm. Blazers currently at 25.8.
But Dame shooting a 3 at 43% is the equivalent of Dirk shooting 64% from 2. No coach on the planet would tell him to stop shooting if he was doing that. Hell, even in 2011 when he "couldn't miss" and led them to the championship, he shot 52%--which is awesome for a jumpshooting big, but not nearly 64%
See the thing is if we tried to have a conventional offense I don't think we'd have any chance of advancing in the playoffs. Other teams have better players attacking the basket. So we should try to emphasis what our team is talented at. That will be a unique style and maybe win a bunch of games or maybe it won't quite work out. But following some traditional old fashioned style that we don't have the personnel for gives us no chance.
Interesting stat SI brought up. When the Blazers shoot 25 or fewer treys, they are 14-1. When they shoot 26 or more, they are 11-6. Make of that what you will.
it's not fun to watch. the % is coming down. for the stat people... the blazers shot 42% from 3 in November with 23.5 attempts per game. the blazers shot 38% in December with 28.1 attempts per game. if the blazers drop another 4% in January that will be 34% i don't need stats to back up my problem with the blazers. as i said in my first post. they need to get to the rim and stop settling for three's. I do not want to see 30 three's tonight. it's not fun.
The thing is we win even when they go down. See the recent OKC game, there have been others. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Winning is fun. That's what I like. And we're the best team in the West. Why complain? To each his own, I guess. Go become a Grizzlies fan. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
christ this time two years from now we'll be shooting in the negative percentages if the trending continues!!!
Hey look, they are headlining our record on NBA.com. I hope we get the actual nba record for a game sometime this year. I'm going to check and see how we're doing as far as setting the record for 3s in a season.
So NY actually set the record last year with 891 3 pointers made on the season. So they averaged 10.9 makes per game, after tonight, the Blazers are averaging 10.6, so we're not quite on pace, but we're shooting the highest 3pt% of any team this season.
Actually it's even more extreme than that. If you assume an offensive rebounding rate of 25% on missed 2's and 3's and you ignore fouls and turnovers then 43% on 3's is equivalent to 69.5% on 2 pointers. This is due to the fact that 3-pointers miss more, causing more offensive rebounding chances and more offensive rebounds, and thus more shot attempts per possession.
