Josh Smith shooting chart

[RolloTommasi]

Four-year, $54 million

[spacemonkey]

Wonder how much worse, if at all, he would shoot if he closed his eyes every time.

[MKG35]

And yet they still want to trade Monroe?!

Why couldn't they build slowly and work their way up with Monroe and Drummond.

[Optimus_Steel]

Has he tried shooting right handed?

[deepeeenn]

JSmoove will take a page out of Rudy Gay's book and tell the team to keep that out of the Detroit locker room.

[Lord Hades]

My God.

You take Smith's already established infatuation with jacking up shots from 18+ feet and combine that with time logged with a Monroe/Drummond frontcourt and there you go. Wow.

[HeatRing2012]

horrible...

however, he does play out of position. let him play PF (on offense and defense) and he'll look much better.

his contract is probably the reason why the Pistons want to (need to`?) trade Monroe.

[j_n]

I dont understand, 66% from around the rim seems like a great percentage, why is it in red or orange?

[MotownMadness]

Dumars did put him in a position to fail but he still shouldn't be jacking up shots as much as he has.

[MotownMadness]

And yet they still want to trade Monroe?!

Why couldn't they build slowly and work their way up with Monroe and Drummond.

We want to trade Smith already but don't know if it's possible. Monroe won't go anywhere unless we get back the right deal.

[MKG35]

I dont understand, 66% from around the rim seems like a great percentage, why is it in red or orange?

This one gives a better image:





http://stats.nba.com/playerShotchart.html?PlayerID=2746

[ElectricMayhem]

I'm reposting my theory, but only because it's more applicable in this thread:

I believe in this human-like race of beings from the other end of the solar system. While sharing many of the physical characteristics of Humans, they were miles ahead technology wise. With their planet in warfare, a group of 60 escaped just before nuclear clouds encompassed the whole of the landscape. Of course, they were already gone when this happened, so they never learned the terrible fate of their home world. Their plan was to find to find a planet with qualities similar to their own, colonize it, then send back communication for their loved ones to come.

Now the form of communication this race of people had was brilliant. It involved a metal cylinder connected to a sheet of glass. One simply had to throw a specialized inflated ball against it to make noises that would fly through the universe. And with the unique shape of this contraption, various angles would make different sounds, allowing one to express any number of ideas or minute details, depending on both angle and velocity.

Now, perhaps you have surmised the rest of the story. These people eventually found Earth - an incredibly lucky find. There were many celebrations as they made a stealthy landing in a remote part of New England in the Earth year 1890. Realizing they were outnumbered on this planet, they realized assimilation was more viable than colonization. These people donned human clothes and gave themselves human names, preferring inconspicuous names, like Smith or Johnson. They quickly set up their communication system, attempting in vain to contact their friends and families, who lay cold and dead on the now barren wasteland of their home planet. They tried to keep this communication system hidden from humans, but one day an intrepid young man of the name James A. Naismith stumbled upon the system. The aliens were horrified that they had been found out. After a few moments of cold sweat and awkward silence, one of the quick-witted members of the group convinced Naismith that it was actually a game where you tried to get the ball IN the basket, assuming he would be satisfied with that answer and be on his way. But no, Naismith was a curious fellow. He poked and prodded. He asked question after question until the alien had found himself making up an entire new sport on the spot. Now, this is where actual history meets publicized history. James A. Naismith went on to "invent" the game of basketball and it came to be the popular sport we know today.

Now, that brings us to Josh Smith. Nearly all of the group of 60 died out in the 1980s. Their bodies weren't meant to handle processed foods like lime flavored tostitos, taco bell, or snickers bars. Miraculously, one member of the group was born with a mutation on her 73rd allele. She lived past all of them and was even able to mate with a human to give birth to a young boy. As with tradition, they gave the boy an inconspicuous name...Josh Smith. He grew up hearing the stories of his homeland....How he had a whole host of family and friends their that loved him. He learned of the communication system and often had dreams at night of being the hero to his people....the one to finally reunite his family with the rest of his race. While his mother, the lone original member, had lost hope of ever seeing her family again, Josh went toward his mission with a vengeance. He learned the language, and learned what each toss at each angle, at each speed meant. Night after night, he went out and practiced shooting off the cylinder and off the backboard, hoping that someone...anyone would hear. He knew that if he really wanted to get his message flying through space, he would have to learn to play defense at an elite enough level to become an NBA player and have his message fly through the human's satellites all throughout space.

So that brings us to now. Not realizing that his messages are merely bumping off centuries old corpses on an abandoned planet amidst a fading nuclear cloud, Josh Smith, in his Detroit Pistons uniform. keeps sending his futile messages each and every night, waiting for a parade, a homecoming, a happy ending that will never come.

[Mr Peanut]

This is what happens when an owner demands playoffs and a GM is in the last year of his contract: a panic move.

As a Pistons fan, I pray that Monroe is re-signed and Smith is shipped out.

[BadNFluenz]

Completely useless

[HiMyNameIsTrey]

Red is good, right?

[CeltsfanSinceBirth]

Useless

[JellosJigglin]

Red is good, right?

Yes. If you're from Inglewood.

[law_1990]

opened this thread thinking 'this'll be a laugh'.

Was not disappointed.

[DHodgkins]

He has the 2nd worst career 3PT% for people with at least 1,000 attempts

1. Charles Barkley (.266)
2. Josh Smith (.276)

[irie]

Yeah, well, it was pretty much a given he'd do poorly playing at small forward.