sodmoraes wrote:Murray_17 wrote:If you look at his advanced numbers two things jump to my eyes:
(1)His Defensive BPM is neutral on a bad defensive team, which is pretty impressive. and (2)even when he's leading the NBA in minutes and is a pretty dominant ball guy his USG is hovering around 30, which means he's not a heliocentric guy.
I expect his shooting to go down a bit eventually, because shooting 42% on 9 attempts is basically Curry territory. If he stays there, his peak is actually starting to get on to MVP territory
Yeah, i think he will probably shoot around 35-37% from 3. He shoots a lot of hard shots to keep above 40% from all season. Only if Embiid and George can play almost all season i think he can keep it above 40%, since he gets a lot of easy shots with his 2 man game with the big fella.
I agree. I think he can increase his 3pt percentage playing more off ball. He's an elite catch and shoot player from 3 and truly has been since Harden days. What's new is his off the dribble 3 percentage.... I clearly see the difference that he's made with that shot and it started last year but he's pretty much perfected it this year. Instead of taking those huge leaps back on the step back He's way more balanced, slowing down a tick And actually doesn't even jump as high on this three-point pull-ups. He used to make that shot look so hard, now he's super comfortable with it to the point of basically mastering it and looking like Harden as a jump shooter, except he's better as a shooter.... And while moving and leading the league in miles per game like Curry did.... He adds a much different layer than Curry who is crafty and an elite ball handler along with greatest shooter.... Maxey is an elite shooter, but his off ball movement and resets are actually to set up drives to the paint and teams have to respect that and fear that as much as his shot too due to being the fastest player in the league.
The fact that he's also a plus defender is so impressive... He moves his feet with his athleticism, is a playmaker with blocks and steals. Gets into bigger players, but great players can shoot over him or over power him... But he's not exactly someone you need to run a Steph Curry system for, with the double switches
54 points with 3 blocks and 3 steals and 9 assists is crazy.... And he didn't feel like he was just in crazy rhythm and was gunning (why I feel like he has a 60 pt performance in him).
Imagine if we traded Simmons that year... Although we still got Harden, we could probably get more from him back then, when the league wasnt that aware of his shooting problems...
