Most frustrating shot selection in recent Rockets history?

for me it was francis without a doubt....the waiting..the waiting...the waiting...knowing it was going to happen. everyone on the court knowing it was going to happen...over and over and over and over again.

come on fhqwhgads

 

ron artest and it's not even close.

mcgrady had bad shot selection, but he was supremely talented so could manuever his way into getting a good look, and had a good chance of making his shots as well.

cuttino mobley, pre-JVG, like mcgrady but to a much lesser degree, was still highly skilled and could get off a clean look in balance.

some here will misguidedly say steve francis but he never had bad shot selection. his problem was over-dribbling and turnovers.

vernon maxwell will be the popular choice i presume, but it wasn't as bad as ron. max would take quick jackups and it was pretty bad, there was a difference though...

...what makes ron so frustrating isn't necessarily the shots but the manner in which he gets them. he bumbles around for 5 seconds, risking the possibility of dribbling it off his leg, then either fades away off one foot or goes bulldozing his way in awkwardly with no body control or balance. ron artest might have the worst overall balance out of any starting swingman in the nba. also, vernon's shots didn't appear as bad because they atleast had some decent form - ie: he actually shot jumping off two feet.

ron artest's jumpshot off one foot going to his right might be the ugliest image in rockets history.

 

oh, no...you can't separate the over-dribbling from the shot selection. he knew exactly what shot he was selecting while dribbling for 23 seconds. that was the beauty of it all. we all knew.

 

Only one has no chance of going in and it's Rafer's tear drop. What I hate the most about it is that its such a p***y shot because he trying to avoid contact.

 

Seconded.

 

There is something about that Artest shot that bothers me.

I mean the shot is so off-balance, and his lack of athletism makes it look like a playground shot.

The Francis dribbling is bad. The what-you-doing look on people's faces were both hilarious and frustrating, but it just didn't bother me as much as a bulldozer mowing a lawn. Just doesn't fit...

 

C'mon, it's Rafer's teardrop by a mile.

At least with the other ones, there was at least a chance of it going in! With Rafer, he only made it by accident.

 

I voted Ron, because it is most current but every one of those selections bugged the CRAP out of me.

I love ball movement, back cuts, screen and rolls.....true team basketball.

Ironically the one that bugged me the least was Rafer's teardrop, because at least he was attacking the basket and Yao/Scola could clean up the rebounds.

DD

 

There are a lot of PG who are not physical enough to take the foul. You got your Deron Williams and Derrick Rose on one side and your Parkers and Steve Nashs on other. You must also hate AB because he does it more than Rafer.

 

Great Thread. I think Ron takes it though. Steve Francis and Tmac had the ability to make those shots because they were so offensively gifted that if they were not getting blocked than it was considered a tough shot and not a bad one. The reason i didnt choose Rafer was because a shot that close to the basket has a higher chance of going in or getting an offensive rebound rather then Rons tough fadeaways that have little to no chance of going in.

 

Ron Artest does it too and I hate it. Ron Artest's description in the poll is too simplified. It is much more than just a fall away jumper with the defender draped on him. What about what led to the shot? Dribble, Dribble, Dribble, Dosey Doe to get himself space, 1-5. You know he isn't giving up the ball and that he made up his mind before he received the ball.

 

You also have to include TMac "heat check" three pointers early in the shot clock. He almost always missed those.

Heck, any 3 pointer by Tmac was frustrating at the end.

 

Those did not bother me as much as Rafer's heat check 3s.

DD

 

Stevie's endless dribbling, Ron is starting to give me flashes of that this season, frustrating...

 

Rafer's teardrop was infuriating.

 

At least TMAC and Ron's shots had a shot of goin in....Rafer's tear drop

 

Kevin Willis's 20 foot jumpers.

 

Alston was actually a higher percentage 3point shooter the last couple years. Plus, TMac actually had the ability to do something other than throw up a brick, where Rafer didn't.