re: final 2023-24 NBA season net ratings, by team

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Yet we are one of the worst clutch teams in the league. So how much value is BI bringing to our clutch situations??

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I would agree that BI should be better, but we have a coaching problem more than anything. And you can say all you want about BI, Zion has been terrible in the clutch too. His FT% is 50%, which is the same it was last year too. That's a huge problem, and that's not a coaching problem.
He has the 6th worst TO rate in the league in the clutch for anyone who's played more than 20 games. His FG% drops from 57% to 45%.
And BI isn't much better at 11th in TO rate, and to be honest, the other guys in the top 10 are Jokic, Edwards, Lebron, Banchero, Garland, and Wemby, so it's not that terrible of a stat to have, although to have two guys that high isn't good.
If you watch Bally's you hear AD talk about it all the time how we never have Zion set picks for BI, and the very few times we have done it good things usually happen.
There's a coaching problem.

and i'm not going to sit here and say BI is great in the clutch. he can be, but for the most part he isn't, b/c if he was then we'd be a 50+ win pace team when he plays all the time. I know no one would like to see us get this guy b/c of his lack of 3 point shooting, but if you want to fix the clutch problem, then go get Demar DeRozen, who would be easy to get. he's been far and away the most clutch player this year, and even by doing so the Bulls still suck.




Do you know that Minny has similar clutch woes as us. They go from the best defense in the league overall to the 24th best defense in the clutch. 108 rating that worsens to 117 in the clutch. WHy?
Why is their offense going from 114 to 104 in the clutch? Is Anthony Edwards not as good as we think?

I expect a team like the Mavs to be better than us in the clutch on offense.
How is it that they go from a DRtg of 114.9 overall, to 106.7 in the clutch. Why are they better on defense in the clutch, when they have two guys who are notorious for being picked on defensively in Kyrie and Luka?




Did you know that we were the 5th best NetRtg team in the clutch last year?
The year before that we were 25th.




I honestly don't know what to make of any of it.
one aspect of being a good clutch team is having a guy that can hit the clutch shot. The other aspect is a coach who puts that guy in the best position to hit that shot, and also knows how to defend the opposing best clutch player. We suck at all of that.






The point after all of that crap i just said is really that if you trade BI, which i am open to even though everythign thinks i'm the biggest BI supporter on this site, you hve to bring back someone who can play in the clutch b/c we have no one. You can't trade BI and bring back Evan Mobley. That doesn't make us any better in the clutch, unless Zion learns how to play better in the clutch, and i'm not betting on that.