Comments on: Location, Location, Location http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2009/11/13/location-location-location/ Unbiased opinions from extremely biased people Wed, 23 May 2012 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Shooting apocalypse » By The Horns http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2009/11/13/location-location-location/comment-page-1/#comment-28213 Shooting apocalypse » By The Horns Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:54:35 +0000 http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/?p=3795#comment-28213 [...] Update! Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm saw this post and did a little extra digging for additional information about the Bulls’ ranking for attempts, field goal percentage and assist percentage (percentage of makes that are assisted). Here’s what he found: [...] [...] Update! Matt Moore of Hardwood Paroxysm saw this post and did a little extra digging for additional information about the Bulls’ ranking for attempts, field goal percentage and assist percentage (percentage of makes that are assisted). Here’s what he found: [...]

]]> By: Joe Treutlein http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2009/11/13/location-location-location/comment-page-1/#comment-28208 Joe Treutlein Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:25:29 +0000 http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/?p=3795#comment-28208 The biggest problem the Bulls have is they really don't have much of a choice with their roster. They're shooting a poor 36.6% FG% from 16-23 feet (compared to league average 38.6), but their eFG% from three is an incredibly, incredibly bad 37.9% (compared to the league average 53.6). The next lowest team from three is over 42%, to give you an idea of how bad they have been. They don't even have anyone on their team who's shooting an eFG% of higher than 41% from three. They only have five players on their team who have even made a three. Sounds like someone is missing Ben Gordon much? I guess you could force Deng or Miller to take some threes, but neither has really shown much success with it (not sure if either has ever averaged one made three per game in their career, and they definitely haven't recently). You can play Pargo more, but he's inefficient as all hell. Their only real choices are hoping Salmons and Hinrich come around, and actively forcing them to take more three-point attempts, while encouraging the point guards to set them up there. Hinrich and Salmons take a combined 8.1 attempts from 16-23 feet per game when they're basically the team's only competent three-point shooters playing big minutes. That's kind of hard to do, though, as they already take more threes per game than long twos anyway. Forcing more inside shots should definitely be a priority, and that onus is on Rose in terms of creation both for himself and others, but no matter what this team does with its current roster, it just isn't built to have optimal shot distribution based on average efficiencies. They can definitely do a better job than they're doing (32.8 attempts from 16-23 feet compared to league average 21.1 and 2nd most 25.9 is just insane), but this team is flawed from an offensive standpoint in terms of its makeup, and no coaching can fully rectify that. Their best bet is really killing it inside, which they have a chance to do with Noah and Rose, if Rose ever wakes up and starts getting to the basket more. The biggest problem the Bulls have is they really don’t have much of a choice with their roster. They’re shooting a poor 36.6% FG% from 16-23 feet (compared to league average 38.6), but their eFG% from three is an incredibly, incredibly bad 37.9% (compared to the league average 53.6). The next lowest team from three is over 42%, to give you an idea of how bad they have been. They don’t even have anyone on their team who’s shooting an eFG% of higher than 41% from three. They only have five players on their team who have even made a three. Sounds like someone is missing Ben Gordon much?

I guess you could force Deng or Miller to take some threes, but neither has really shown much success with it (not sure if either has ever averaged one made three per game in their career, and they definitely haven’t recently). You can play Pargo more, but he’s inefficient as all hell. Their only real choices are hoping Salmons and Hinrich come around, and actively forcing them to take more three-point attempts, while encouraging the point guards to set them up there. Hinrich and Salmons take a combined 8.1 attempts from 16-23 feet per game when they’re basically the team’s only competent three-point shooters playing big minutes. That’s kind of hard to do, though, as they already take more threes per game than long twos anyway.

Forcing more inside shots should definitely be a priority, and that onus is on Rose in terms of creation both for himself and others, but no matter what this team does with its current roster, it just isn’t built to have optimal shot distribution based on average efficiencies. They can definitely do a better job than they’re doing (32.8 attempts from 16-23 feet compared to league average 21.1 and 2nd most 25.9 is just insane), but this team is flawed from an offensive standpoint in terms of its makeup, and no coaching can fully rectify that. Their best bet is really killing it inside, which they have a chance to do with Noah and Rose, if Rose ever wakes up and starts getting to the basket more.

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