ZOMG wrote:cjbulls wrote:ZOMG wrote:
It's not about "wanting" to play big. In the pros, you play the way your team's analytics people tell you to play - particulary if you're not a star/superstar. Yes, that's an oversimplification, but there's a lot of truth in it.
Big guys are taking threes because they're being told to take threes. If you can regularly make that shot, it's the best shot in basketball, and it doesn't matter what we think. Plus it's a way to combat the changed defensive rules of the NBA by creating space in the middle.
Doesn't make any sense to keep crying about "soft big men wanting to be guards" and shooting from the perimeter. That's the game now.
Nobody on the 76ers wants Joel Embiid shooting threes except for Joel Embiid. And I guess if you had Shaq now you’d tell him to start practicing his threes, right?
Wiseman’s talent is his combo of length, strength and athleticism. Those advantages are eliminated when he’s 25 feet from the hoop.
3 point shooting is important, but not for everyone. Unfortunately you’re still stuck thinking about the game in a static fashion (threes!) instead of understanding how unbalanced it is right now and where the alternative advantages can be found.
That's why I said "In the pros, you play the way your team's analytics people tell you to play - particulary if you're not a star/superstar".
Embiid is a star and they always get more leeway to do stupid s**t. Still, although Embiid isn't a good outside shooter, it doesn't hurt him to project at least some threat from the perimeter.
As for Shaq... that's why I said "If you can regularly make that shot, it's the best shot in basketball". And this remains true. The big guys who can shoot SHOULD be taking threes.
These days, a big who can't shoot needs to be really, really good at other things (Shaq was the most physically dominant player in the entire league). This is why players like Wendell are close to useless. He probably has the least trade value of all the Bulls who play regular minutes. The fact that quite a few Bulls fans seem to want to build around him boggles the mind.
If Carter doesn't develop a more or less dependable outside shot before his rookie deal runs out, he's in danger of being out of the league.
You’re changing the subject of my original post that you objected to. I wished that big men like Wiseman would play to their strengths and you wanted them to take 3s because analytics. Now you’re sidestepping it all.
That Carter take is quite a few steps too far as well
So to get back on topic, do you think Wiseman should be focusing on 3s or playing effectively inside/near the paint?
