lilfishi22 wrote:bwgood77 wrote:lilfishi22 wrote:I just think our issues (esp in the 4th) really stick out like a nail with CP3 being the guy who could hammer it in. Obviously I'm happy with Beal but when looking specifically at what I think is probably our biggest issue so far in the regular season, CP3 seems to be the perfect problem solver. Of course, we also give up a lot elsewhere with CP3 being who he is at this point.
CP3 was awesome and money in the clutch from the mid range...but he can't do that anymore for whatever reason. Two years ago he was 56% from 3-10 ft and 59% from 10-16 ft. Last year he was 42% from 3-10ft and 47% from 10-16 ft. At the rim he went from 77% to 62%. This year his %s are a little better from the mid range but on very very low volume. He almost exclusively takes 3s, but is up to 38%....so that's his game....he was 33% from 3 two years ago when he was great from mid range, and up to 37% last year, so he's been focusing on that. He's only taken it to the rim (or inside 3 ft) 9x this year.
I'm not even talking about the CP3 who could just spam the middy pull up and control the 4th like strings on a puppet . *That* CP3, I would take over this Beal as I'm sure most would too. But even the broken down CP3 we got last year was still able to help us get to basically neutral in the 4th (-16pts net points). Only team worse than us (-224) this season is last season's Spurs team (-322). It's so bad, if you take the scoring differential of the 2nd and 3rd worst 4th quarter teams (Miami and Toronto) and add them together, it still doesn't come close (-179). The 64 win season where we were just locking teams down defensively, then executing offensively was far and away the best 4th quarter team in the league and also almost exactly the opposite in net scoring (+221) to this season.
I think one of the biggest, if not the biggest factor is losing CP3's game management. Even when he wasn't close to all-star level, he was still able to bring that to the table and make us close to respectable. As much as I like Beal and what he brings to the table, he just doesn't bring that, nor anyone on this team.
That was an entirely different team though for most of the season..I don't think that's very comparable.