SecondTake wrote:Pat had like 2 attempts per game last year. He made like three quarters of one on average and averaged under 4 points. He's now averaging 4.2. I mean I don't see the point of picking apart percentages of a guy averaging under 4 points a game with terrible defense. He's getting MORE attempts than he did last year, hes just making way less of them. And they arent contested, the guy is bricking every open 3 he gets. Shroder is giving him the ball as much as Felton did, which isnt much, but it's more than he deserves.
you don't see the point of picking apart percentages? you're the one that claimed 'that happened' for patterson last season, a year where pat shot 38.6% from three which would be perfectly acceptable.
he's making less of them this year, yes. how do we get patrick patterson back to shooting 38% from three? the answer is not to stop getting patrick patterson jump shots, is it?
you play this off like it's meaningless, but adjusting patrick patterson's 3pt% to his career # would on its own improve our offense from 101pp100 to 103.1pp100 in the minutes he has played. the question remains why there is reason to believe that he can suddenly not shoot? you claim he was bad last year, but he was still able to shoot last year. i'll wait.
SecondTake wrote:...And what do you mean Felton had no problem "doing it"? Doing what exactly?
in games westbrook has played this year, the bench units with schroder (i.e. westbrook out) haven't performed much better than the bench units with felton did last season collectively. those units extracted plenty of value from players like abrines and patterson. why isn't schroder?
i'm not saying felton is better than schroder. i'm saying that schroder hasn't had any meaningful impact on the bench units so far. they aren't much better than felton bench units last year.
SecondTake wrote:The rest of the bench has regressed badly, in Pat and Abrines. That's not Shroders fault.
it might be, it might not be. it's too soon to tell. incidentally, george also shoots much worse from three in bench units with schroder. pretty much everyone shoots worse from three in those units except for schroder himself.
but it's way, way, way too early to make judgments on either abrines or patterson as shooters, which is what it seems schroder has done lately (last 1-2 weeks) freezing them out.
SecondTake wrote: Shroder is the only guy plugging the hole as best he can in all three of those categories.
like a certain other former thunder player, schroder is known for putting up counting stats but not really having all that much of a positive impact. can you guess who that player was?