Could Ricky Rubio low pt and FG% be a product of having too many great scorer?

Do other top PGs shoot historically low %s when they have scorers as teammates?

Steve Nash played on PHX teams with high scoring talented teammates and passed to them often, yet his shooting %s are high. Same goes with Chris Paul.

Rubio is very talented and even his critics acknowledge his skills in passing and defense. But his inability to score efficiently is very real and more than a matter of having teammates who can score.

 

no, we're not

 

He is still shooting 41% over that 3 game stretch.

He has gotten to the free throw line more, which is good, but still looks like he still has a lot of trouble finishing. I guess he is similar to Lillard in that aspect, who is a poor finisher around the rim but somehow going to the free throw line at a pretty decent rate

 

No. A 3-game sample isn't meaningful. And, what good is a great player who can't be great when he has great teammates? You can't win a championship like that. If that were so, he should go to some lowly lotto-bound team... like the T-wolves, for example.

 

Teaming with high usage players typically increases the FG% of poor shooters, not the other way around. Guys aren't forced to take shots outside of their comfort range.

Rubio's ppg would certainly increase if he took more shots, but the already terrible FG% wouldn't rise in a larger sample set.

 

PTs yes, FGs no.

 

Excuses excuses.

 

Having good teammates generally makes players more efficient as scorers, not less.

Rubio's scoring fundamentals just aren't good. Maybe part of his unorthodox style is what makes him such a creative playmaker, but it doesn't explain why he misses so many damn layups.

 

no, he has an awful shooting action and release

 

There is no excuses for finishing under 50% at the rim.

 

I don't buy your hypothesis, let alone the supposed facts surrounding it. The Timberwolves are 20th in TS% and only 9th in offense.


I assume it is psychological, like Dwight's FT shooting.

 

There's no correlation at all. A good shooter and scorer is going to "get his" whether he's the focal point of the offense or not.

At the very least, he's going to have to get his 3-pt% up near 40% or better. That way, he's at least dangerous as an outside threat and could potentially thrive in a triangle type offense or inside-outside offense such as ours. Like CH said, his passing and defense is already elite level. He just needs to slowly hone his offensive craft. Becoming a knockdown outside shooter would be the first step in that process and he has the hotspots to back that potential up.

 

Any guard can average 25 points per game if given the playing time.

 

It's a product of him sucking at shooting.

 

Even Beverly?

 

He suffers not being able to make a layup, and not knowing how to shoot a jump shot properly

 

He would be terrifying if he could only shoot, but he's not a starter on a championship team until he learns how to make baskets. As I've said before, I bet he heads back to Europe once his contract expires.

 

Why would he do that? Playing in the NBA is his dream, and he's young and it's not like he's a scrub. And if anything, he would wait until his next contract expires so that he actually goes back with some sizeable amount of money. Right now he's still in his rookie contract