What actually above average shooters are available before the trade deadline?

You forgot House.... I agree we could use another consistent shooter though, especially just in case of injury.

 

Making a three is hard. If you do it on 1 out of 3 times, you're at least average to above average.

That said, this is the NBA, the absolute zenith of a sport played by millions and millions of people around the world. A sport whose very essence is shooting a ball through a 10-ft-high hoop. It's surreal to talk about "above average shooters" being a precious and rare thing in the NBA. And accurate. And still surreal.

 

Lol... half a season then being our best shooter this year. House is an impact player for us on both ends.

 

Bjelica is up to 50% on 4 attempts per game. He can back up the 4 & 5. He's not ideal defensively like JGreen or JGrant but we may need a playable knock down shooter once we get into the playoffs.

 

Bjelica is a starter now for SAC.

 

I'm looking down the line if the Kings are out of contention. I think he's starting due to injury, but that may not be the case in the next couple of months. The Kings front office is suspect too.

 

I can’t help but feel this roster is what it is. Don’t expect any additions or upgrades. Considering our owners M.O. and the fact no one wants to help Daryl morey, we are just going to have to make the most of what we have. Getting EGO back 100% would make a huge difference for us. There is a lot of season left and a lot of room to grow.

 

You are probably right.

 

Michael Beasley

 

hard pass.

can you imagine beasley getting down our defensive scheme ? LOL

he's got tunnel vision on offense and not even that good of a scorer.

 

Jr Smith ......get him out of China

 

its time to try out JR smith.

 

Just hope we are healthy and can stay healthy in the playoffs, and our shooting will be good enough.

 

The Rockets can always use more shooters. They need someone that can play the 5 and shoot 3’s.

Thanks to ownership the only way you are getting someone with a salary like Reddick is if you trade Capela. Potentially the Rockets could trade Capela for Reddick plus a less accomplished center.

Otherwise you are looking at guys that make 4-5 million dollars. There are guys that will be available in that range but they are either strictly guards or have serious defensive limitations.

The most improvement would be adding interior players that hit 3’s so the spacing improves and Rockets have lanes to drive and better looks on 3’s.

 

WTF is/was wrong with Ryno anyways? Depression, post traumatic stress disorder? He needed to get over it and get back to form... What happened?

 

The reason we don't have shooters is because it's more important to have defenders on a team built around Harden. You can either have a good defender that is average/below average at shooting, or you can have a sniper who can't play defense. The first one is going to make us a much better team. When you are trying to get the most bang for your buck, guys like Ariza, Beverley, Thabo, Tucker (prior to this years hot start) are better fits around Harden as opposed to guys who shoot over 40% but can't play any defense. Remember Ryan Anderson?

And in case anyone is wondering why we don't just get guys can do both, it's because guys that can do both make $12-$15 million. We really lucked out with House, that's one of the best contracts in the league. But in general, long defenders who also shoot the ball really well cannot be had for ~5mil or less.

Do you really think this team would win more games if we had players like Ryan Anderson, JJ Reddick, Gallinari, Doug McDermott?

 

too soon?

 

Here is a list I just made. I took all players in the league that shoot over 40% from 3 on a minimum 3 attempts per game. I removed guys on their rookie deals, anyone over 10mil salary, and anyone who has played less than 20 minutes total this season. Here's what's left. Let me know if you notice in a trend in their defensive capabilities. I didn't bother trying to assess availability of these guys, I'm sure some of them aren't, but I didn't want to eliminate anyone based on anything subjective.

EDIT: Also worth noting I removed rockets players from this list. House, PJ, and Clemons are all on it, and they're all positives on defense. House at +3.9, Tucker at +0.8, Clemons at +1.3 according to RAPTOR. Obviously RAPTOR isn't perfect, we all know PJ has a bigger defensive impact than Clemons, but it adds some good context and is fine for a rough estimation.

 

I still dont understand how the Jimmer isn't an NBA player. Dude averaged Wilt like number in CHINA and we KNOW he can shoot.