Kevin Johnson wrote:Where are all the clowns claiming he is better than Chandler Parsons? He had an outlier 3PT shooting year last year and clowns were claiming he was a better 3Pt shooter than Parsons.
I disagree. I think Ariza would be shooting much better had he stayed on the Wizards. What seems to be the issue is that Houston's offense is set up to take a ton of three whether good or bad attempts and he doesn't have anything close to the distributor he had in Wall. Ariza for the most part played within the offense last year, he took open shots and was a reliable defender. It seems that once again in Houston, they've set him up to be a player he's not. I also think their asking him to play too many minutes. 37 mpg seems like a lot of minutes for him.
Pretty much this. Ariza know's his role and he's been playing it pretty well. He's just been in a shooting slump. He has to take every open 3 that the defense give's him to keep them honest. That way Dwight and Harden can operate. In fact looking at his FGA he takes 12 per game at a clip of 35.5% (about 4.5 FGM). That is really bad but not nearly as bad when you divide it up amongst 3's and 2's. Trevor attempts about 7.5 3FG per game and hits them at a lowly 31.2% (about 2.5 makes per game). That mean he only attempts about 4.5 2FGs per game and makes about 2 of them per game. That's not bad at all. His 3 point shooting has certainly been in a slump which why it seems like he's struggling really hard. He's had games of of 2/8, 1/9. 1/8, 1/7, 1/4, 0/4 from 3 in the last 27 games. But the Rockets and Ariza should be fine as long as he can hover around 33% from 3 if not stay above it.
