RunDogGun wrote:bwgood77 wrote:RunDogGun wrote:Tough to use his shot number, when he was really our only shooter for most of the year last year, right? His assists for April was 5.6/gm. Overall, I think he has moved the ball when he wasn't the only option. Two of the three 9 assist games came late in the season, when he was playing with all the young guys.
I totally agree that he is young and will improve, as I think he is following coach's orders about shooting, and will hopefully choose more wisely on when and where to shoot. It will also help if we get our guards to not waste so much of the shot clock.
Edit: I'd love to add Nash to our coaching staff to work with Booker on both shot selection, and getting the ball into guys' hands at the right time.
He passed A LOT more when he played with Ulis. Probably because he knew he was more likely to get the ball back. He really struggled shooting his first few games with Ulis but shooting like 23% in the first two then 35% or something before his big breakout record game. No, he wasn't really our only shooter. We had quite a few of them until the end of the year when so many people sat. Regardless, ast to shot is an important thing to look at when assessing how much he shares the ball vs shooting..and we would have had more people shooting if he had shared even more, but it's not worth haggling over since I know you like to haggle over minor things. But shot selection is one of the things he could improve upon which would likely help his percentages and if he moved the ball when it's not a great shot, it would help him and the team in the long run.
I would really appreciate it if you didn't make things personal, especially when you are doing exactly what you are charging me with. My point is Booker is a willing passer, and the ball movement would be good with him in the group listed. You can agree, disagree, or go off on a minor point I didn't make like you did, and then claim I'm the one haggling on a minor point.
So, willing passer, or not?
BW...nowhere in there is there any discussion about the team assists as a whole. You are purely stating about the lack of assists from Booker.
The only statement I made was players have to make shots, so assists are a two-pronged stat......then you went all into Booker shooting percent and hurting the team's assists. This/that discussion was not about that.
But go ahead and spin my friend. Instead of saying true, because anyone and their momma would say another player's ability to shoot effects assist, you will muddle up the discussion with something that has nothing to do with the original topic.....and never quit!!!!
It's like you have a hard on for all of Booker's negatives.....even when Run said his numbers were close to Ulis, you said he only passes to Ulis because he knows he is going to give it back....did you ask Devin that?!! Or are you assuming that?
Weak...smh
