kodo wrote:What's unfortunate is that the younger players absolutely worked on their shooting profile and made big improvements on 3P shooting.
Coby went up on from 4.6 attempts to 7.0 and slightly increased his efficiency at that high volume.
Ayo went up on attempts and made a gigantic leap on efficiency from 31% to 40%.
Caruso went from 2.3 attempts to 4.7 and also made a big leap on efficiency to 41%.
And we still barely improved on 3P shooting, because this team's offense still runs through Demar & Vuc no matter what.
We're also much, much slower as a team with Demar running the show. Being 30th in pace also hurts the overall 3 numbers regardless of our efficiency.
Good point on the other guys getting better. Really, with all those guys improving, only three guys with any volume went down in accuracy, and yet our team as a whole went down 0.3%. PWill went from 41.5 to 39.9% in 43 games, Zach went from 37.9 to 34.9% in 25 games, and then Vuc plunged over 5%. (Jevon Carter's 33% wasn't great, either). I didn't realize until now how much Vuc's 3 point shooting at his volume dragged us down by itself. If you remove his stats, this team gets almost a percentage point better. Do that, and also get PAW and Zach healthy and shooting threes like they did last year, and we'd be shooting over 37% and battling with Milwaukee at the edge of the top 10 in 3p%. That's just back of the envelope stuff, as their return would affect the people who took their place this year. But I'm saying if we solve our Vuc shooting problem in one way or another, we could be not just a middle of the pack 3p% team, but we could aspire to be top third of the league in accuracy. Our significant improvement was masked by Vuc, Zach and PAW's issues/absences this year.
Volume is another beast. Hopefully we'd scheme to get more volume if we were shooting that well.