Sprewell4Three wrote:Harry Garris wrote:zshawn10 wrote:What are the Wizards doing? What am I missing with Rui?
He hasn't been a very efficient offensive player. Very streaky 3 point shooter and he doesn't really playmake for others or get to the rim either. His best skill is mid range shooting so he's kind of a dinosaur offensively.
Is KD , Kyrie and Kawhi dinosaurs offensively? I swear some of you let this analytic BS cloud your judgement. I can name countless champions that used mid range to succeed. It’s only this “special” area where mid range is useless. This is crazy to me.
There's a lot of context that you're missing here. The issue is not with the midrange shot, the issue is from the many other inefficiencies that stem from having role players take mid range shots.
It's not an inefficiency for a star player who has the ball in their hands already and is a threat to both score or create plays for others to take mid range shots. They are not hurting your offenses' ability to threaten the rim or threaten creating an open look for a good shooter by having the ball in their hands. And if they can make that mid range shot at a decent clip, yes it can be a good shot. Especially against a set defense in the half court.
What's not good offense is having a role player who doesn't have the ball handling or playmaking skill to really threaten the defense in any meaningful way take mid range shots. It's not *just* because 3s or shots at the rim are more efficient, you have the added issues of the ball being in the hands of a non-playmaker which means if one of his teammates gets open he's not going to be able to get them the ball in a good opportunity to score, and he's also clogging up the paint which prevents guys from diving to the rim on cuts or crashing the boards and getting offensive rebounds.
