http://www.clutchfans.net/stats_bestever.cfm?rankings=low&orderby=FGP Rafer Alston, in his first ever Rocket season in 2005-06, set the franchise mark for lowest field goal percentage at this many shots or higher. That season Rafer put up 738 shots at a 37.9% clip ... at a minimum of 300 shots taken, that was the 7th worst output in franchise history but the single worst at that many shots or more. After going 5-13 last night, Rafer surpassed his own mark and is now at 744 shots at a 37.4% clip. 300 shots or more, that's the 5th worst output in franchise history but again the single worst at that many shots or more. Eddie Griffin's rookie season of 666 shots at 36.6% and Art Williams' 718 shots at 36.9% in the 1967-68 San Diego Rockets opening season -- both as 22-25 minute bench players -- are benchmarks in Rocket crapulence, but neither shot the ball enough to truly call themselves Rafer-caliber. No Rocket has ever shot this many shots and shot this poorly. Ever.
excellent. maybe next year he'll drop the standstill 3 point shot from his arsenal and try to go for a three-peat franchise low in FG% by shooting only pull-up jumpers and floaters.
Clutch can you list the other worst shooting % in Rockets history? I hope you Kenny Smith haters are reading this. Kenny can shoot!
That's a frightening statistic. The weird thing is, most of the time, when Rafer shoots jumpers it seems like he's wide open. The ones that really kill me are the ones where he goes to the hoop and rainbows it up there.
But given a large amount of his shots are 3-pointers. Shouldn't we times his FGP by 1.5, or at leat by 1.3 or sth?
It really urks me to read how bad he is. I mean we knew it wasn't good but to see it in black & white lets us know that it really is true.Crud we need to improve on him next off season .
just to be fair though, hayesfan, rafer isn't the only one missing gimme shots. despite his high fg%, chuck hayes blows an inane amount of layups. so there's plenty of blown shots all around.
For the Kenny haters who think for some reason Rafer is better than Kenny Kenny Smith 1993-94 FGA 711 FG% 48% 1994-95 FGA 593 FG% 48.4%
I propose a special day of celebration when he breaks 1000 shots for the year. I could see him getting up to 1200 possibly. Actually once he gets above 1000 we might be talking league records for lowest shooting % with that many shots or more. The closest comparable mark I can find (just randomly guessing) is Antoine Walker's 38% on 1553 shots in 2003.
I am well aware Chuck shoots 50% from layupland, but at least he takes them up strong. I don't mind the fact that Rafer misses those shots.. more so that he floats them up there. If he would just once drive and make contact with someone I wouldn't mind near as much.
wierdest part about that is that his 3 point shooting (36.9%) is above average for the league (and a clean 2.7% better than t-macs). Normally, a player's general shooting percentage will pull up their 3 pt numbers, but for rafer it seems like most of the shots he hits are wide open 3s. The man just has no midrange game / ability to finish drives at all. And while i like the way he handles the ball, its fair to say that the vast majority of nba point gaurds can consistently come around a screen and hit an elbow jumper, or get to the rack for easy lay ups once or twice a game...seems like rafer can't though.
It's not his fault he is a decent backup point guard, maybe even a good starting PG but he is just not a shooter or finisher, well on the other hand at least he could be a good finisher to be a good starting PG, hehe problem is, JVG lets him do stuff that he does not do well..
The league average isn't exactly stellar. Rafer's main problem is that he is not effective enough to help the team in the capacity needed. The guy won't or can't even create for others and he's a PG. For the life of me why people defend assistant coach for keeping him in no matter what. When the playoffs come, you'll see that one of the main reasons the team is exposed like a naked body is becuase of the weakness at this position.
The frightening part is that we have nobody to replace him at his position in the near future, i.e. playoff...
