Choker wrote:TheDavinciCHODE wrote:I wish people would stop arguing about who is better and just took the time appreciate just how terrible Demar Derozan has been.
Can't we all just get along and cherish this history making performance? I mean, how many players in their best season, going for a max contract, would play this poorly and expose himself? He consistently ruins offensive sets, looks off teammates and takes bad contested jumpers that clang off of the rim.
He tried to give the game to Miami last night and almost did. I went from hoping the Knicks could pry him away to praying the Raps make a blunder and max him out. You can't just say it Paul George anymore. It's not that he's getting great looks and just not knocking them down. He can't get good looks against good defense and continues to think he's Kobe. Shooting more shots than anyone, shooting poorly from the field, and making JV clean up his offensive glass. Then, with the game in the balance, he chokes away two free throws. JV doesn't grab that board and put it back in, then we are talking about a very different game.
If the Raps had lost last night, Derozan would be getting burnt alive right now. He's and old school type guard, but one that can't even hit his midrange shots.
I did a break down of each of DeRozan's shot attempts, and I actually don't hate his shot selection as much as I initially did. He threw up like 6 abysmal eye raking shots, but everything else actually weren't bad looks, particularly the floater. The Heat are packing the paint against us, and the only good close shot that we were able to get were Jonas' offensive putbacks and DeRozan floaters off of pick and rolls. DeRozan was 3/7 on floaters by my count, but all of them but 1 were good looks because Whiteside refuses to leave the paint. It's actually a nice game 2 adjustment.
If DeRozan can manage to convert on his floaters it forces Miami to change the way they defend us.
Sure, a lot of his shots have been fine and they just aren't dropping for him, but in general his shots are coming at the expense of ball movement and better looks. For example, he might work his defender and end up with a mid-range two point shot, which, if he were an elite shotmaker, would be fine; however, he isn't, and he is even worse in these playoffs.
Getting the team standing around ball watching, maybe even getting a bit disgruntled, and overall effecting the game negatively. He took 24 shots 0 of which were 3's, and few came around the basket at all except those floaters. He is taking what the defense is giving him, not getting what he wants.
The real issue I have with him is that he jacked up 24 shots, even when it wasn't working. Even though Miami clearly wanted to live with giving him that, and he hasn't really adjusted. JV and Carroll both had good games, and his shots got in the way of theirs. JV got almost no touches aside from his putbacks, yet the few post touches he got were almost all conversions.
The thing about mid range two's is thatyou, at best, end up shooting around 45%, and players need to balance that with the occasional 3 ball and the ability to get to the rim. Derozan hasn't added the 3 ball, continues to take some bad shots and then some decent shots, and can't get to the rim effectively against stout D.
I think going to him for the majority of the Raps offense is hurting them.
