Crawford averages 35% on his career, Felton 33%, Wallace 32%. So still 4 shooters, 2 good ones, and 2 below average. Maybe Aldridge should shoot more 3s. Just saying...
well, at this point, they would have to go on a 60% tear to get up to their career norms...i see a hot streak coming!
I agree with this. But we have missed so many open shots this season that I have to think we need some player changes. Just too many missed open j's.
We need more than shooters, we need guards that can get to the line consistently as well when the shots aren't dropping.
The team needs a new coaching staff. Sometimes that's all it takes. The 49ers struggled for years under bumbling head coaches, then they hire Jim Harbaugh, and bam, they're in the NFC Championship game.
I doubt the team will get rid of Mr Blazer. Er, Mr Sonic. And not because he has the Seattle connection, but because he's so "popular". Maybe he should be given the title of GM and the team gets a new co....wait, no, not GM. that'd be horrible. 3 straight years of 1st and outs usually gets a coach fired. Hell, Rick Adleman and Mike Dunleavy were fired after being FAR more successful than Nate ever has been.
The first thing McMillan does when he gets a new shooter on the team is to tell him that shooting isn't important, defense is. When the rookie Webster would make a tough shot in practice and look proud, McMillan would upbrade him, "How's your defense?" He makes sure they have a lot to think about out there, and he plants inhibitions about certain things like turnovers that they absolutely must not risk. The reason our shooting has been bad for years is that McMillan wants it to be about 5th priority in players' minds.
I could be wrong but I thought in all four of our losses on the road trip that we had as good a shots as the other team, but made less. And I think we might have done better getting someone with a high shooting percentage versus a "guy who creates his own shot" in free agency.
Nate's offense is unimaginative. That's what I bitch about. I'd like a faster pace than last, which we are getting this year. However, on the road and when the defense doesn't let Wallace leak out, our offense is stuck int he 50's again.
Defenses are designed to give up certain shots. The "good shots" we are given are in reality bad shots for the players on our team.
That's a good point; I can gripe about the fact that we haven't accumulated good shooters; but i guess since we don't have them we need to design an offense that doesn't need great shooters. And I commented before that I think we could utilize Wallace better by feeding him the ball as he comes around a curl, (not sure about my terminology, I am not a basketball expert) heading for the basket. It also wouldn't hurt if somebody worked in practice on bumping Wallace as he tries to finish. (Maybe HCP could let us know if the new developmental coach who took Bayno's place does this?)
