Regarding the 3-pointers taken by Morris/Patterson

Where did you get the 40% from? Because that's insanely high. My god if as a team the Rockets can hit 40% of 3s, we'd be talking championship aspirations.

I would be incredibly happy if our PFs can shoot even 35% from downtown. The lanes would really open up if they can even hit that number.

 

Steve Novak, a stretch 4?

 

Jopatmc says some strange stuff at times. If we had bigs that could shoot 40% on threes, we'd have a HOF'er. Dirks probably the best stretch 4 in history, and he shot over 40%, barely, only 3 times

 

If Dirk's role was simply to play off two playmakers and sit in the corner and fire the open 3, he'd shoot them at 50%. His role in the offense goes way beyond that. He's a creator as much as he is a shooter. And he's still throwing in 38% out there, even though he has to take all the junk shots when the shot clock winds down and all the shots at the end of the quarters.

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about power forwards spotting up and taking open 3-point shots. They gotta hit that shot at 40% or more. I'll hedge just a little bit here and say 39%....maybe 38%. But if they are gonna chuck it out there like Novak, Anderson, and Ilyasova, they gotta be at very, very close to 40%.

 

By the way, I am cautiously optimistic about Patterson shooting the 3 balls. He was only 1 for 4 in the last game... but he looked good shooting it. His form looked good. He looked just like he looks taking the 17 footer. So, I'd much rather see Patterson take that 3-ball shot off the Pick-n-Pop, than to take that horrid 2-point shot. I think it will make him way more efficient. However, I don't want to run that pick-n-pop very much...only when the defense starts to pack down on the pick-n-roll so much that everything is clogged up going to the bucket and the picker can fade out to the 3-point line, set their feet, receive the pass, and get a clean look from 3.

Pick-n-Pop with a big should only be run when Pick-and-roll is too cluttered. And then the big should be shooting the 3, not the 2.

 

Terrence Jones??

 

I wouldn't really call Novak a stretch 4. He doesn't fit the profile of a 4 in any way other than his height so I'd just call him a 3 point specialist. I do think the team could use him, and 3-4 mil/year doesn't sound too outrageous when you consider someone like Daequan Cook is making 3 mil this year.

But I wouldn't give up anything valuable to get him unlike the others.

 

If you want a stretch for, Nikola Mirotic rights are owned by Chicago. He shots there's better than forty percent.

 

That's 2 years down the road man. And nobody knows whether he's gonna be a 3 or a 4 until he gets over here.

 

Quality post. We need more analysis like this.

 

Patterson's defensive rotation is very good, Jones can give us some defense on the low block against lean 4's. Hopefully,he will get familar with the system soon.

 

I'm sorry to say it this way, but that 40% number was pulled right out of your a$$ & it makes you sound d*mn ignorant for saying it.

 

Pretty much every offense would be more effective with a capable stretch 4. You just better make sure it doesn't come at the expense of your defense, which is why I wouldn't want Morris to my starting 4.

I don't think your big needs to shoot 40% from 3 for it to make sense either. Even if he hits just 36-37%, that's more than enough to make the defense respect him, which really is what you are looking for - spacing. The good shooting percentage is just the cherry on top of the it.
You might lose out on some offensive rebounding opportunities, but you will/should have better floor balance and thus be able to be more effective getting back/stopping the opposing team's transition offense, which is where you generally give up the highest percentage shots.

 

That's a real quality op, and I see the significance in it, pat has range, he was a shooter of the college three ball and his jumper is smooth so there's no harm in it at all IMO.

 

Dude, Maxwell shot like 30% from the 3 point line, and he was wide open most of the time and a guard. Yet, our offense ran pretty effectively. It's called TS%. You'll be lucky to find a competent 4 who can shoot 30% from the 3. And I think that will be good enough to tell you the truth. And don't start pointing to K Love's 3 pt %, b/c we aren't going to find him anytime soon.

 

well play DMo then. he spaces the floor the most.