SuperPawgHunter wrote:sixerswillrule wrote:SuperPawgHunter wrote:
Dude, Kyle Lowry is a career 14ppg game, on 42 percent shooting from the field.
I didn't even know that until I looked it up.
Dude, go take your damn medicine.
Travel agents, pay phones, and field goal percentage. All useful 30 years ago but now obsolete.
So the stat that tells you how accurate a player is shooting the ball is obsolete? Do you know what obsolete means???
Trust me, I know where you calculator, advanced metric, pocket-protector nerds are going with this argument - but I just want you to consider you said field goal percentage is obsolete. Obsolete. O-B-S-O-L-E-T-E.
The Pelicans should make Lonzo Ball their no. 1 scoring option, 'cause FG% is obsolete. Accuracy doesn't matter. Just keep chucking it up there. Who cares if there are only so many possessions in a game, and it's smartest to let your most accurate shooters shoot the ball, to give yourself a great chance of scoring on those possessions.
I need to leave this forum. The level of stupid I've encountered on this forum in the short while I've been here, by far surpasses anything I've witnesses anywhere else. That's actually kind of scary.
Raw shooting percentage that doesn’t account for whether the shot was a 2-pointer or a 3-pointer is obsolete in an era where 36% of all shots taken are 3-pointers yes. Lowry’s taken over 60% of his shots from 3-point range each of the last 2 years and he’s a very efficient shooter. His TS% of .562, .598, .623, and .578 the last 4 years have all been better than league average.