GAME THREAD: BLAZERS @ PISTONS - DECEMBER 9, 2014 - TUESDAY, 4:30 PM (PST), CSN

That's just for the Blazers.


The ones I used from earlier was this one for the entire league:


I'd be fine with him just taking fewer contested jumpers. Then again, I just want my team to win, not necessarily to have players get certain stats. But nothing like hyperbole, huh?

 

Mags, I love you brother. I just hate the way you debate. You have difficulty staying in one place, and it's really hard to hit a moving target. Honestly, you remind me of my older brother.

I don't think anyone has said that 70% of his shots were contested jumpers. If they did, one look at the stats page I linked to would refute that claim. What has been said, and what I will say again in order to avoid the moving target thing, is that defended, unassisted jump shots are inefficient, and he shoots a large number of them. Reduce/eliminate them from his game, and his stats improve, and the team's efficiency improves. Pretty simple.

 

BTW, you should know that if 70% of his total shots are long jumpers, that doesn't necessarily mean that 70% of his clutch shots are long jumpers. That's the kind of argument that severely undercuts your credibility in a debate.

 

From 10-23' Dame is 27-60. That's 45% and an average of just under 3 of his 14.3 shots per game.
From 10-23' LMA is 94-234. That's 40.3% and an average of 11.7 (61%) of his 19.3 shots per game.

 

No. People are saying that a certain aspect of his game is detrimental to the team. But that does not equate to saying that his presence as a whole is a detriment.

And yes, I guess you could say that critiquing a 17-4 team qualifies as "nitpicking". Personally, I prefer to think of it as objective analysis from fans who want to see every conceivable roadblock to a championship addressed.

 

Reminds me of last December, when "22-4" was the constant reply to anyone bringing up concerns. A good record does not mean everything is working perfectly.

 

We put the ball in the hands of our most efficient player and he shot us to the second round?

 

Sinobas and MM get shot down a lot when they do that. Some might say that Nic hurts us on his 9 shots a game, but his TS% is higher than LMA's (on his 19.1 shots). Some say that Dame shoots too much when he's cold (I, for one, have pointed out that he has 2 of the 50 worst-shooting games in history). But he's light-years ahead in TS% (59.9% to 46.7%).

Our improved defense (a decent part of which goes to LMA) and our improved bench are helping us win games, where last year we had to rely on our offense (and specifically, our starting offense). But we've regressed on offense (10th in ppg, 6th in OEff)