re: A nice breakdown of Borrego’s offensive sets

Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:43 pm to Balsamic_duck

Posted by ThanosIsADemocrat

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Posted on 6/4/23 at 1:43 pm to Balsamic_duck

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Zion doesn’t take 3s, our center won’t take 3s, so that leave 3 starters and the bench to shoot 35 3s/gm if you want to be top 10 in 3pa

Yeah both Zion and Jonas need to be shooting 3s, though.

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Posted by CP3forMVP

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Posted on 6/4/23 at 5:39 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat

I made these posts a few months back regarding BI and other wings, specifically Tatum. BI needs to refine his shot selection. I don’t hate him taking mids, but value is in getting to the rim, getting to the line, and getting up threes.

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Someone in the comments brought up Jayson Tatum. Tatum takes 9.3 threes a game and 22.4% of his shots come at the rim. He also gets to the line 8.7 times a game.

I think the push for threes and attacking the rim is quite interesting when you look at Tatum taking 65.9% of his shots from those areas on the court. Compared who BI who takes just 36.1% of his shots from three and at the rim. I can’t help but wonder what type of scorer BI would become if he changed his shot selection.

BI has also only taken 54 shots at the rim this year, which is an insane number even with the amount of time he missed.

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He's definitely not Tatum, but that stark difference has a lot to do with mentality and approach as well.

Though I also think it's worth noting that BI and Tatum's fouls drawn are pretty similar, with BI actually coming out ahead in several categories. Tatum holds the edge on percentage of drives that end in a foul for example, 10.8% to 10%. Pretty close. BI holds the edge on iso/75 that ends in a foul, 5.2 to 4.7, also pretty close.

A lot of it just comes back to shot selection for me. Tatum's 3PTA rate is 43.5%, BI's is 22.5%. That has nothing to do with quickness or how big or strong you are. Per 75 possessions Tatum gets 5.7 shots at the rim, BI gets 3.2. Even something like using Tatum as the screen and roll man, 2 times per 75 possessions, BI is at 0.1. They even do a better job getting Tatum paint touches on cuts, posts, etc etc, 3.1 to 0.8 per 75.

Just a lot smarter offensive basketball going on over there in Boston, imo.

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Here you can kind of see where BI ranks in terms of 3pt attempts vs those other guys you mentioned.

His positioning on that graph is not where you want him to be.