down the stretch it is scoring by committee, whether its Scola, Martin or Brooks. If it comes down to last play it seems Adelman calls for a one on one with Brooks, beating his man and see what happens from there. The coach needs to decide who is to be our clutch shooter by drawing a play for the team. If it works keep rolling if it doesn't find someone else. Give the team time, they traded away their go to man in Landry and they don't have Yao who is clutch at the free throw line. By the end of the season that person will come to prominence.
Thanks for understanding what I meant. I should have written 1 for 3 which would have been more clear. It's such a small sample, I'm just trying to create some sort of tabulation on how he's performing now (not the past when he was new in the role). I don't think 33% is great nor bad. Sounds average like you said. But I would reckon Kobe is over 50%.
Look, you don't need weights, anyone who saw that game knows Brooks was clutch. It's not a missed free throw or anything, it's putting everything on his shoulder and doing what he has to against the toughest defensive stand the Nuggets could put against him. And they player great defense - Brooks was just.....clutch!
its making me lol about how ab hit a clutch shot yesterday and then everyone searched for every thread that said brooks isnt clutch and corrected them.
Actually, you do need weights b/c there are varying degrees of "clutch". For instance, earlier this year, the Lakers were down by 2 and Kobe hit a game-winning 3 pointer as time expired. Clearly this was more "clutch" than Brooks' game winner last night. If Kobe's shot missed, the Lakers would lose. If Brooks' shot missed, the worst case scenario (pending a miracle Nugget shot) would be overtime. But yes. Brooks was clutch. He has always been clutch when we have the lead or the game is tied.
People tend to read too much out of one game/one shot. If during the last 2+ seconds a Nugget got 3P, then everybody says-AB is not clutch?
I see what you're trying to say, and it is an interesting notion but you are thinking too much into it. Maybe its because he is in the safe zone he has a better chance of making it but I guess we;ll see as the season goes on.
