What happens to 3-point shooters?

donemilio21 · Post #1 » by **donemilio21** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:48 am

I'm sure everyone notices that Clippers are and have been one of the worst 3-point shooting teams in the league. To solve this problem every season we add good 3-point shooters to the rosters, but somehow their % go down as soon as they become a Clipper.

7 players came to my mind who have played for us in the recent years and compared their shooting with the year before.

Ricky Davis; shot .405 at Miami, .315 with Clippers
Baron Davis; shot .330 at GSW , .302 with Clippers
Tim Thomas; shot .429 at Phoenix, .382 with Clippers
Cat Mobley; shot .445 at Orlando and Sacramento .339 with Clippers
Steve Novak; shot .479 at Houstan .416 at Clippers .268 so far this season
Rasual Butler shot .390 at New Orleans .268 with Clippers
the only exception was Radmanovic who was .367 at Seattle and .418 with us

Anyone has any ideas what the reason might be?

Hooch20 · Post #2 » by **Hooch20** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:14 pm

Our offense is stagnant. The ball doesn't move and when it does our spacing is horrible.

We're also missing a ton of open looks.

PETEY PABLO · Post #3 » by **PETEY PABLO** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:59 pm

The Dunleavy offense is not the best for the current Clippers players.

Det the Threat · Post #4 » by **Det the Threat** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:06 pm

Trying to play half court offense with no real offensive sets, crappy ball movement and iso plays all the time leads to guys taking ill adviced last second shots that won't go in.

Therefore, shooting percantages will go down.

Though, that doesn't counts for Rasual Butler, who couldn't hit the ocean from the three point line, if his life would depend on it...

Post #5 » by **thanumba2clippersfan** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:33 pm

Det the Threat wrote:Trying to play half court offense with no real offensive sets, crappy ball movement and iso plays all the time leads to guys taking ill adviced last second shots that won't go in.

Therefore, shooting percantages will go down.

Though, that doesn't counts for Rasual Butler, who couldn't hit the ocean from the three point line, if his life would depend on it...

I totally agree, as some of you have mentioned we're also missing open looks. Hopefully some of them will start dropping for us.

TheNewEra · Post #6 » by **TheNewEra** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:14 pm

Von Wafer is heading back to the NBA he would be a nice pick-up.

Tucker74 · Post #7 » by **Tucker74** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:31 am

We are also one of the worst teams at setting picks. Despite our abundance of capable bigs, have you noticed how many time they'll establish position and then at the immediate sign of resistance, slide away? It's fundamental basketball! And it's not as though it's pick and roll. Kaman will just linger at the of the key along with the rest. It's no wonder none of our shooters can ever get an open look.