There have been a bunch of games lost this year because of poor shooting. The Nurse offence seems primarily designed (when Kawhi isn't on an iso) to generate 3 point looks and it has done that well for the most part. But then we are privileged to watch brick after brick on far too many occasions. It isn't just the 3s either. Every team out there now seems to have a guard who has mastered the floater and we've been burned badly by some of them. Holiday and Harden come to mind. Our players don't seem to have that shot either!
Danny Green. FVV at times. Serge from the elbow. Kawhi on a good night.....with his incredibly flat shot. Those are our shooters.
My questions are.....can the players we have improve during a season? How close is everyone now to their lifetime average? Lowry is (in my opinion) in decline but many others are younger and shouldn't be. Are players working with a good shooting coach? Are guys putting up extra shots? I was just at the Houston and Dallas games and got into the building as soon as it opened 90 minutes before game time. The only Raptors that were out shooting were Siakam, Powell, Green, Ibaka and in one game Lowry. Perhaps everyone else shot earlier....don't know.
I'm sure almost everyone on this site has played a bit. I feel like some players...certainly ones I've played with and coached are "natural" shooters who even with crappy technique just have an eye-hand thing where they can put it in the basket. I have seen some hard workers who can really improve...especially (like Pascal) if they didn't have much experience. I think Pascal and Norm both have potential to become reliable shooters.
The other issue is the consistency. I know the Raptors are in the bottom half of the league percentage wise on 3s but it might be even worse because we seem to shoot either great or terrible...not often at close to the 35% mark which is about league average. That is worse to me because shooting 20% is an almost guaranteed loss in today's league...or at least with the Nurse offence.
I'm not sure adding one shooter will help. I wish I understood why the Raptors seem to be such a crappy shooting team in general....or perhaps it is an illusion. One of our resident statistical wizards might prove that.
So comments about shooting and shooters?
Danny Green. FVV at times. Serge from the elbow. Kawhi on a good night.....with his incredibly flat shot. Those are our shooters.
My questions are.....can the players we have improve during a season? How close is everyone now to their lifetime average? Lowry is (in my opinion) in decline but many others are younger and shouldn't be. Are players working with a good shooting coach? Are guys putting up extra shots? I was just at the Houston and Dallas games and got into the building as soon as it opened 90 minutes before game time. The only Raptors that were out shooting were Siakam, Powell, Green, Ibaka and in one game Lowry. Perhaps everyone else shot earlier....don't know.
I'm sure almost everyone on this site has played a bit. I feel like some players...certainly ones I've played with and coached are "natural" shooters who even with crappy technique just have an eye-hand thing where they can put it in the basket. I have seen some hard workers who can really improve...especially (like Pascal) if they didn't have much experience. I think Pascal and Norm both have potential to become reliable shooters.
The other issue is the consistency. I know the Raptors are in the bottom half of the league percentage wise on 3s but it might be even worse because we seem to shoot either great or terrible...not often at close to the 35% mark which is about league average. That is worse to me because shooting 20% is an almost guaranteed loss in today's league...or at least with the Nurse offence.
I'm not sure adding one shooter will help. I wish I understood why the Raptors seem to be such a crappy shooting team in general....or perhaps it is an illusion. One of our resident statistical wizards might prove that.
So comments about shooting and shooters?
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