Here's the huge difference that you left out in your comparison: Clippers Bench Crawford Big Baby Davis Matt Barnes Darren Collison Jared Dudley Danny Granger Hedo Turkoglu Blazers bench Mo Williams Will Barton Thomas Robinson Dorell Wright Meyers Leonard Joel Freeland CJ McCollum Notice a difference?
I like Terry too. My frustration was simply based on our inability to handle their trap against Dame....again. For a while we were back to shooting contested three's that were not close to going in. But Terry did a lot of good things in that game. And one as mentioned was with Nic. I was pissed when Nic drove to the lane in the 4th and passed on a open shot. The result was a much worse shot by someone else. I watch Terry after that play walk to Nic and had a conversation with him. Immediately after that is when Nic became more aggressive. His players like playing for him.
Baffles me too, I'm calling it the "we almost lost 4 game winning streak meltdown" It's almost worse than a 2 game losing streak meltdown
No, you completely disregarded my point about the Clippers having one of the best benches in basketball. That was a pretty large part of my original point. Pound for pound, the starting units match up pretty well, but last year their bench was vastly superior to our bench. It wasn't even close.
So, who exactly is our "great bench scorer"? Jamal Crawford averages 16.4 ppg off their bench. He averaged 18.6 ppg last year. To put that in perspective, two years ago, our entire bench averaged 18.5 ppg. And, in spite of all that, we actually have a better record than the Clippers, in spite of losing over twice as many player-games to injury. BNM
I do believe the kids today say "learn to read, then post". (I do not mean that to sound as offensive as it might - it is merely tongue-in-cheek parroting of board vernacular.)
Sorry, but that's just not how it works. The percentage that a player shoots from 20-25' (or whatever the actual measurements are) does not affect their shooting percentage from 5-9'. It simply doesn't work in that direction.
Yep, but basketball reference uses different parameters and in the link I provided, Aldridge shoots 57% from 0-10 ft
I'm not sure what you're not understanding, and I don't feel like having a circular conversation is doing any good.
Well it's usually your blind hatred of Aldridge that gets in the way. I guess we can leave it at that
Yep! http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/aldrila01/shooting/2015/ 68% + 43% / 2 = 55.7% from 0-10
