Mutnt wrote:Every single one of them FYI.
Well no **** Wade is having a career high in percentage of shots assisted on, is that surprising to you? Before LeBron & Bosh came he was basically THE offense, having the ball in his hands the whole time. Now it's different. We gotta distribute the ball between the Big Three and the shooters.
LeBron's a better offensive player and Wade needs to learn to play off him. Since his jump shot is broken (apart from every 6th,7th game when he hits a couple) all he can do if LeBron/others have the ball is cut or get in post position (which doesn't count as an off-ball play). Granted, Wade is a good cutter when he wants to be, I'd like him cutting more rather than shooting off-balanced floaties in the lane, but oh wel...Also, i don't know how you can say Wade is a better off-ball player than LeBron lmao. Just because LeBron has the ball and is the facilitator, thus making his off-ball play and % Ast'd less possible than Wades for example, doesn't mean he's a worse off-ball player. LeBron is probably the most rounded and efficient scorer in this league, sans Kevin Durant.
Yes and the number of assisted shots shows he's far from the ball-dominant player he used to be and uses his off the ball skills more to score. Of course should it be higher, but you claimed he wasn't moving/playing well off the ball, which I countered with this statistic.
Regarding his shooting statistic, Wade is 41.2% from 10-15 feet on 1.6 attempts per game while LeBron is 41.3% on 1.3 attempts, does that mean his jumper is broken too? Wade's 39% from 16-23 feet are an area that can be improved, but hardly screams broken, given that this is the most inefficient shot in basketball.
Also, what does cutting have to do with off-balanced floaters? You can cut to the basket, receive a shot and still shoot an off-balanced floater, one thing has little to do with the other. What you're really trying to say is, you wanna get Wade off the ball more and not have him create anything. Given how he's still vicious on high screen and rolls, that'd just take a huge strength away from him and the team. If you purely want him to be an off-the-ball player, we might as well trade him for the likes of Kevin Martin, because that's something he'll never be. The question I have, however, is what did LeBron leave Cleveland for then? Mo Williams was an excellent off the ball player and so were Danny Green, Daniel Gibson, Jamario Moon etc. The reason those guys came together is to have multiple ball handlers/facilitators which can take the pressure off of one another. They all had the role of being the lone ball handler and they all failed (we played a fair amount off of Shaq when he was here).
Mutnt wrote:Again, I have no problem with how Wade is used in the offense. He showed that in the current scheme he had the most efficient FG% in his career (and that includes a couple of early season stinkers where he played injured). Should he get the ball more? Probably. But at who's expense? The Heat knew (or they should've) that by bringing Ray Allen this year he was gonna take a couple of shots away from the Big Three. That's what you get when you want an equal and evenly distributed versatile offense. You can't have have great wide open shooters on the perimeter being useful while LeBron, Wade and Bosh take 20 shots each. It doesn't work like that. Somebody has got to sacrifice some shots and seeing how LeBron is the best scorer on this team and Bosh is probably the best mid-range/spread the floor threat we have, Wade is the one. If anyone, Bosh should be bitching about the lack of shots on this team. He's having a career shooting year (by far) with 56FG% and he gets 12 shots a game lol. He doesn't even get plays called for him anymore but just floats around in the mid-range area and waits for the ball to shoot. The games are like a shooting drill for him on offense.
Well, given that he attempts much less shots a game, it's easy to have a higher FG% and given that we're only 32 games in, it's not an fitting comparison to other full season statistics. In 10/11, both his TS% (which takes free throw shooting into account) and his eFG% (which adjust for the fact that a 3FG is worth one more point than a 2FG) were higher than this year despite him attempting more shots. All those statistics can be found at hoopdata.com.
I was campaigning for both Wade and Bosh to receive more shot attempts. I'm tired of having inefficient players a la Chalmers, Cole and Battier attempt as many shots as they do while hitting them at the percentages they have. The solution to it is involving the Big Three more in plays with one another. Neither of them should be degraded to standing in the corner and watching, which happens all too often. You can use Wade, James and Bosh in screen and roll situation all game long with one another while presenting the other team with a pick-your-poison situation. The three point shot by one of the role players on the court should be our last resort. You even named Bosh yourself. Why is it that we often use him for spacing purposes instead of using him in multiple pick-and-roll/pick-and-pop scenarios?
This also takes me to Spoelstra's substitution patterns. I don't see any reason for him to leave one of the members of the Big Three out there by himself for several minutes. Those are the times when the other team can force us into outside shots and when they're not falling, our offense is stagnant.
Mutnt wrote:Wade can't bitch, it's his fault he couldn't develop a consistent shot in his career while Bron and Bosh could. Now Bosh was relegated to a jump shooting role player so that Wade can have the ball more and be more effective with his style of offense... On top of that, he gets lazy far to often. So stop babying Wade, I'm fine with him averaging 14 shots and 20 pts. He needs to get to the line more too (so does everybody else but ok).
Your Big Three should get more shots theory is also flawed. By this, you put more pressure on our three best players to create for themselves and go the distance. We already have to many instances where we play 3 on 5 offense... Isn't the point getting less pressure on the Big Three? I'm fine with ball distribution and finding the open player tactic, but the problem is the open player misses the ball far too often.
And when exactly did Wade bitch? When he took a step back to make LeBron more comfortable so that the offense would be more fluid (which it oddly isn't)? I'm not babying Wade (read other posts, I call him out more often than others do, but on better grounds), I'm just saying we're not using our offensive talent to full potential, including Bosh. Somehow, this game became another Wade bashing instance however.
You're contradicting yourself in your last paragraph. On one hand you say we have to find the open man to take pressure off the Big Three, but then claim the open player misses his shots too often? So your solution is to just pray for our shooters, who have been very inconsistent all season long, to just wake up and take pressure off of the Big Three? The pressure is there either way, whether we force-feed our shooters who don't hit their shots or whether the Big Three attempt more shots. I'd rather have more shot attempts for our star players than continue to feed players who've been very inconsistent all year long.
EDIT: One thing I forgot. The area that pisses me off about Wade is getting to the line/finishing within the paint. His shooting percentage from 3-9 feet is at 43.1% and was at 43.7% last year, whereas he shot 50.7% in 2010/11 from that distance and has only been under 50% once (47% in 2009/2010) in previous years. Often times, he'll drive and then attempt to draw a foul from that distance instead of focussing on making the shot and then receiving a foul as a bonus. You're much less likely to draw a foul when you attempt to do so because referees will swallow their whistle more often than not if you exaggerate the foul contact. That, and his laziness in certain games, are my problem with him.
