yosemiteben wrote:Will be interesting to see what we do with Hawes when Hibbert is ready to come back. Playing three Cs seems like too much, but Hawes has had a really nice effect on the second unit.
What's crazy about 6-1 is that Batum has been shooting terribly - 36.4% FG, 27.5% 3PT. We'd be blowing teams out if he was posting just career averages.
Batums shot selection has been questionable so far this year. Seems the degree of difficulty on his shots so far has been tougher than I remember last year. Almost all his shots seems to be jumpers where he is either floating side to side, towards the rim or starting the shot while facing away from the basket (his usual catch and shoot off curl where he starts shot facing away then turns mid air to face rim before shooting). There just aren't that many players who can consistently make those shots at a high %. I might spend some time today checking out the types of shots he is taking this year compared to last.
All that being said, he's also missing a lot of easy looks as well.