Jim Jones |
03-04-2012 12:00 AM |
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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
(Post 8415692)
He's probably going to miss a wide open jump shot, you say? LMAO
This isn't college basketball. These guys actually make their shots when they're open regularly. His percentages this season only show what he's done overall, they don't show what he's done with nobody contesting him.
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You don't figure that Haslem gets his fair share of uncontested shots with LeBron/Wade/Bosh on the court with him?
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If it was rushed, it's only because he made it that way. He had time to set up and make that shot with nobody on him at all. The defense had shifted fully over to James.
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Apparently, you need to watch the play again. Devin Harris is moving toward him as soon as he gets the pass. He still gets a hand in his face despite Haslem rushing the shot. Do you know what "wide open" means?
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1. 36 games this season doesn't prove Udonis Haslem is declining. His stats in past years were right along his career averages. Though even a declining Udonis Haslem should be expected to make such a shot, anyway.
#2. 36 games is a meaninglessly small sample size when compared to his entire career of successfully making that shot.
#3. That particular statistic, 39%, doesn't tell you anything about what he does on shots where he isn't contested at all (like he was on that play).
#4. Passing to a wide open NBA player with a history of making open 15 foot jump shots is not a dumb basketball play, it's the right basketball play. It's the kind of play that LeBron James makes successfully several times a game every night because of his passing ability and court vision.
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#1-2: What he's done this year tells us more than looking at what he did last year, or two or three years ago. He's older, his skills have eroded. He simply isn't making that shot, or any other shot, with the same consistency he used to. The stats bear that out and I've seen the Heat enough this season to see it with my own eyes.
#3: The shot was somewhat contested. He had a guy lunging at him and putting a hand up. It wasn't "wide open".
#4: Once again, I must say that I don't think these words mean what you think they mean. You keep saying "wide open" and "uncontested", but these simply aren't true.
Here's where I'll somewhat agree with you. In general, a basketball player passing out of a double team is a smart play. Meaning, if I was coaching a youth basketball team, I'd tell them to do that. If LeBron did that in the second quarter, I wouldn't care, because even though Haslem is likely to miss, there's still plenty of time to make up for it.
But it isn't that black and white. Everything is situational. Last play of the game? That play isn't OK. It's not OK to force a struggling shooter who is producing mediocre at best results this season to take the last shot of the game, the last attempt your team has to win, when you have been on fire for the last 12 minutes.
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