Slim Charless wrote:RunDogGun wrote::lol: One good game for Shamet and two people here are back to calling him "sniper" and "sharpshooter"
I would still rather have Johnson shooting more threes. I hope Shamet has found his shot, but he can easily go right back to forcing shots, taking shots too quickly, or trying to be Booker. He is a chucker. All we can hope for is those "chucks" go in. He is shooting 37% from the field, which is 15th on our roster of players this year. He is just above Ish.
As for this game, and any game where Monty is smart enough to start Johnson, I hope they try and get him going early. He seems to be our key late in games, and proves to be our best shooter. However, not going to give him ridiculous titles, his percentages speak for themselves.
If that was about my post calling him that, I was being sarcastic. Guess I should've put the green font in, but I figured it'd be self evident.
I'm no fan of Shamet.
Green font does help, or even (green font) helps. But it wasn't just your post. I get it, we all hope he shoots well, because we know it will help the team. What pisses me off the most is all the minutes he has gotten even when he is sucking it up, and the extremely limited minutes Gallaway got, when they filled the same role, supposed instant offense. The other part that pissed me off is Shamet getting so many minutes, when Johnson's minutes should have increased drastically. I would rather have Bridges playing backup 2 guard, Johnson at the three, and Crowder at the four, and less minutes for Shamet. Unless he is on fire, and not a sieve on defense, there is no real reason he gets so many minutes.
But many things don't make sense this season, even though we have a great record. Playing Payton as an off guard, or the up and down minutes for Stix, even though Monty said he earned more minutes with those six games he was killing it. There were two games where Stix should have gotten some minutes at the end of game we were killing the other team, and he just sat. Now if he was going to get traded, I get it, but he wasn't traded, so it didn't make sense. Limiting Johnson's touches and shooting makes the least sense, both in last year's playoffs and this season. Our best three point shooter should be getting way more touches.
I am not expecting perfection, but more common sense. We seem to kill offensive flow, because our guys are allowed to chuck. We just seem to be fortunate that enough guys get it together per game, and our clutch shooting seems to kick in with multiple players per game. I could see this hurting us like it did against the Bucks, when we get to the playoffs, facing one team over a seven game season, since we don't make adjustments. It was like the Mike D days, where we just refused to make adjustments until it was too late, and already were playing behind in series.
Lastly, Murray's and Poetls' combine salaries would equate to around 27 million. Same as what Ayton might be looking at ending up with? Coincidence??......................
