Scase wrote:islandboy53 wrote:Harcore Fenton Mun wrote:He's not a starter. So, I don't care if he's on the team or not. I'd like him more if he shot 36%, but he's below 25%. He's not above average at his position. I don't see a reason for the investment.
Agbaji shot 35.5% last year, his rookie year, on 228 total attempts over 59 games, including 22 starts. This year, in 51 games in Utah, including 10 starts, he shot 33.1% on 142 attempts. Since arriving in Toronto, in 19 games, including 11 starts, he's shooting 23.2% on 56 attempts. For his very brief career, he's shooting 33.1% on 426 total attempts.
I think writing him off as a shooter based on this very small sample size is a mistake.We know he's not a starter, but we still need a bench. Agbaji's defence alone should make him a good bench player for us. When his shot develops, he could be a very good bench player.
While I agree thus far the sample size isn't big, he's taken 196 career 3's, 154 of them outside of the right corner. He has shot 27% on those. Based on his current NBA production, he is statistically a terrible 3pt shooter outside of a single area on the entire court.
I hadn't previously looked at player shooting stats on nba.com from this perspective. A review of Ochai's numbers with both Toronto and Utah is interesting.
Last year with the Jazz, he shot 39.5% on 38 left corner 3's, 50% on 58 right corner 3's and 27.7% on 130 from ATB.
This year with the Jazz, he shot 36.1% on 36 left corner 3's, 50% on 30 right corner 3's, and 25% on 76 from ATB.
This year with the Raps, he shot 41.7% on 12 left corner 3's, 21.4% on 14 right corner 3's and 16.7% on 30 from ATB.
So, if we leave out the Toronto sample, which is small and doubtless skewed by his change to a new system and new responsibilities, we can see that Ochai shoots adequately from the left corner, quite well from the right corner, and poorly above the break. Lots of room to improve, but that's to be expected from a 2nd year player.