shackles10 wrote:ConstableGeneva wrote:Smart2Nesmith43 wrote:Boston went 3/21 on wide open shots (14.3%). That's like almost impressive in a way
C's need to work harder to get contested twos later in the clock. Pass that ball around and dribble into a crowd against an aggressive defense.
Later in the clock while also at the same time not taking too long to get into our sets and going later in the clock. It's almost impossible to do both, but all the good teams do it.
Regards to passing and movement, the Warriors do that as much as anyone. #1 in passes per game and they run around non-stop. 4th to last in attempt rate near the rim and 'cos they don't have a lot of good players, bottom third in efficiency. 16th in offensive rating.
Naturally, every team is different 'cos of their composition. So you base your system on the players you have. C's don't want to tire Tatum with all that movement (haven't checked but he's usually among last in distance traveled and speed). He already "loafs" during some possessions as it is. Holiday and Horford are old. KP might break his leg if he travels more than a mile per game. And there's a reason why they don't involve JB in more screening actions. He's not a very good screener and is more likely to screw up spacing and bump into teammates if you give him the freedom to move offball. So I guess we can ask PP, White, and Sam to run around more but for what purpose? The team already gets so many wide open shots. They just need to make more of them. I do wish we had more offball cutting overall to shift the defense.
Side-note: Cavs are unreal with their wide open 3-pt shooting. Something upwards of 45% range last I checked. (Still waiting for the gods of averages to strike them down, to no avail). C's were at the top last season at 41%.
Joe might also want to look at why Cs aren't able to turn turnovers into points consistently. Celtics are 29th in shot efficiency after opponent turnover. Hurt us again last night. Both teams had 16 turnovers but OKC doubled us up in pts off them (22 vs. 11). Just being average there like we were last season could get us a bump on offense considering it's generally one of the more efficient ways to score.