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re: Facts are facts..
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:35 am to ghost2most
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:35 am to ghost2most
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2. Our 3-point shooters may go from above average to total crap if they're not wide open. So when Zion drives into the wall and kicks, guys like Naji, Herb and Trey have to make teams pay. If not, we're gonna get blown out.
Live by the three, die by the three.
It's why you have to have more to your offense than simply kicking out for 3's all game.
But even saying that, if a good 3 point shooter is wide open, they have to take the three. You can't pass up wide open 3's b/c when you do it makes it even harder to score.
There's no need to overeact to one game. It was a bad shooting night, and they were lights out from 3. It happens. Move on to the next game.
We're still 1 of 9 teams in the league with a +.500 recrod against teams with a winning record. We've beaten plenty of good healthy teams this year, Clippers, OKC (without BI), Denver (without CJ), and Minny, on top of a slew of other wins over healthy playoff teams.
What's more concerning to me is we still don't know how to play in the clutch. we are 1-6 this year in games decided by 3 point or less, which is the worst record in the league. That 1 win was the Spurs win where BI blocked WammerJammer on the put back with like 10 secnods left adn then Zion took it the length of the court to put us ahead by 1. It seems we either beat the crap out of teams, or they beat the crap out of us. 40 out of our 65 games have been decided by double digits, and 9 more of them were by 8 or 9.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 9:51 am to TeddyPadillac
Pels just aren’t a mentally tough team so far this year. You could tell in the first quarter. We looked lethargic from the opening tip. Anytime we get off to a bad start, we tend to fold very easily. Combined with 0 4th quarter comebacks, you have a team that mentally just gives up way too easily. This team needs to find some of the mental fortitude they had in 2022.
I hate to say it but we’re a front runner team. If we start well we can blow teams out, but if not we don’t have the mental toughness to stay in games when we’re not playing our best.
Watch the Nuggets play. That’s a mentally tough team.
I hate to say it but we’re a front runner team. If we start well we can blow teams out, but if not we don’t have the mental toughness to stay in games when we’re not playing our best.
Watch the Nuggets play. That’s a mentally tough team.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:00 am to TeddyPadillac
quote:Probably the most damning stat is in the clutch we have the 3rd worst net rating in the league, only ahead of the Wizards and Pistons.
we are 1-6 this year in games decided by 3 point or less, which is the worst record in the league.
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:25 am to TeddyPadillac
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Live by the three, die by the three.
It's why you have to have more to your offense than simply kicking out for 3's all game.
Zion scored 33 while BI scored 20 and they were both pretty efficient. Yes, I would have liked BI to shoot more 3's but they weren't the problem. We had more to the offense, they scored 53 points on a total of 1 3PA. The problem was we hit 2 3 pointers before garbage time. We would have struggled to beat the Pistons or Wizards last night. As stated above, we laid an egg. I am encouraged that Zion and BI were the ones who were up to the challenge last night. ATL is right that BI played well as the small ball center and that lineup looked better overall.
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