Baron Davis is the best player on our team. He is the most valuable player on our team. And therefore he is put under the heaviest microscope on our team.Baron Davis has given us good numbers. He has given us exactly what we should have expected - good play 65% of the time, injuries 25% of the time, and pissing away the game on stupid shots 10% of the time. If anybody expected more than 65 games a season of almost allstar level play they were mistaken.Baron, however, can be a headache in the fourth quarter. In the last five minutes of the game, Baron shoots a higher percentage of his team's shots than Kobe, and more than lebron. And he shoots those shots at 30%.24% of warriors shots in the last five minutes of games are baron misses. And he shoots his shots at the worst possible time. 35% of baron's shots (the most of any three second range) are in the last three seconds of the shot clock during the last five minutes. This is stupid considering that he shoots 54% on shots in the first ten seconds of the shot clock (which is what he shoots mostly during the first three quarters). 80% of his shots are jumpers during the same timespan. 83% of his shots he is the only person to touch the ball for over five seconds (low percentage when all your shots are jumpers).But you might think that he has no choice but to shoot jumpers late in the clock, after all it is the clutch.However this is proved inaccurate by the fact that almost all good clutch players shoot most of their shots in the first 15 seconds of the shot clock. As if any more proof is needed that Baron is needlessly ballhoggy during the clutch, AI and Kobe both pass the ball 30% more than Baron during the last five minutes, according to 82games.comThe point being, that baron is helpful to the team, but horrible in the clutch
Baron his some pretty big shots down the stretch vs. the Celtics the other night, including one of the nicest fadeaways I've ever seen.
He's a choke artist right now because in the clutch, who else do we go to? Let's be honest, Ellis is a turnover machine, and we don't want to risk having him give up the ball in the final minutes of the game. Diogu might make a lot of shots, but he's not ready to take the big shots. Dunleavy, is Dunleavy, same with Murphy, and J-Rich is injured right now and doesn't have the confidence or shot he did last year.
