You could say that 30% from 3 this year is a blip and hes closer to his career average of 34% from three. His shot looks really good from out there unlike Westbrick.
30.7 is much much closer to his other two years of 33% and 32.4% while 40% is so much higher that is abnormal in the extreme. You could argue that his near 40% year was the year he was taking more shots and is a bigger sample size then the other two but you could also argue that teams did not scout him as a 3p shooter and it was more of a surprise that caught the league off guard for a year, then teams started adding his 3p shot to his profile and the next year the league was ready for him hence the drop down to 30%. Another small sample size is he was 10 of 30 from 3 against the spurs shooting about his season average. Regardless of what conclusions we both draw I want him taking the 3's until he proves he can make them and it wasn't a one game hot streak and you think that is a bad idea.
Jokic consistently gets away with forearm shoves while a player is driving to the basket. There was the blatant one against Kanter in the first half right in front of Ken Mauer that nearly pushed him out of bounds. There was another one against Dame when they were making a run that caused Dame to miss the lay-up. He got away with these constantly in the Spurs series also. There was a play where he hit Derrick White in the face right in front of the ref and wasn't called. I have no idea why/how is not getting called for these.
Id like to see us go right at Jokic more because he will reach and foul. Besides Dame & Hood I didn't see our forwards taking it to the hoop much to draw fouls.
I simply said his career average of 34% isn't a bad 3 point shooter. Even pointed out that he was 40% one year and is 30% this year. Don't put words in my mouth.
I disagree. It wasn't the refs. It was the 23 points off of turnovers that they scored. Cut that in half and we win.
Which has pretty much been the recipe to beating Portland all year. Force them into turnovers. Where Portland's recipe for winning has been limiting their turnovers. Nuggets did it in game 1. We'll see if Portland can counter in game 2.
The other thing is, not only did we turn the ball over more, but we did a HORRIBLE job of converting those turnovers into points.
Imo we are in good position, we lost by 8 points on the road while our Starting forwards combined for 4pts and 6 turnovers. Playoff Chief isn’t getting 2 points tomorrow and Moe isn’t getting ZERO rebounds.
It's not even that. We put up plenty of points and we shot a good percentage. We need them to stop making stupid mistakes and turnovers.
I agree the turnovers killed us but my point was if those guys put up half of what they have been doing in the playoffs we would of won even with the turnovers. Not saying they are the reason we lost. I think we are in fine position, clean up the mistakes and get everyone involved and I expect a win tomorrow.
