Richard4444 wrote:rtiff68 wrote:Chris Porter's Hair wrote:Meanwhile, Jordan Poole (the real story here) took a trip to the G League to get himself right. So now...
He's shooting 27.7% on 8.4 FGA/game. Also shooting 27% on 3's.
In his last 7 games, he may have had the two best games of his career. Riding on the efficiency of those two games, he's shooting... 33.8% over that span.
Damian Jones, Jacob Evans, and now Jordan Poole— 3 huge whiffs in a row.
The success rate for late round picks isn’t stellar, but it would’ve been nice to net at least one playable guy from those 3 selections (like, Ezeli or Looney), especially considering our lack of depth...
On the bright side, GSW got lucky with Paschall, Bowman and Damion Lee. The jury still out on Smailagić.
And I felt I owed it to Jordan Poole to come back to this thread and note that he's been playing WAAAAAY better lately. Still not an All Star snub or anything, but night and day. At least it has seemed that way; let's see. Over the last (arbitrarily) 10 games, he has shot 51/107 (47.6%) from the floor. That's not only better, that's quite good. 18/53 (33.9%) on 3's. That's still pretty poor, but much better than he was. 19/28 (67.8%) on free throws. That's awful, and he was really good on his FT% early in the year. But also a small sample size. The other thing that is conspicuous is that he's averaging 4.2 assists over the last 10 games, while averaging 2.4 for the season. That's really interesting. Paschall, who I love, is averaging 4.2 assists over that same stretch, while averaging 2.1 for the season. Something really clicked in related to our ball movement.
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