Byron Scott Wants Lakers To Average 10 To 15 Three-point Shots A Game

Swaggy's injury might help him stay at this number for awhile...

 

as long as it's naturally through the offense and not consciously limiting things then fine...10 seems pretty low though. i agree with doc, 20 seems more realistic

 

Balance is what's needed, but Byron's number is probably an over-correction. Personally I think he is doing that on purpose though in order to get the team in the mindset of attacking the basket. When all is said and done we probably average 18 or so, which is fine.

Slowing the game down also makes tons of sense when Kobe, Nash, and Boozer are out there. D'Antoni's plan to run all the time with vets like Pau, Nash, and Kobe wasn't smart, add in a Dwight that thinks he's a traditional, back to the basket center despite every stat imaginable screaming he's not and the plan went from "not smart" to just plain suicidal.

Byron has to get the D'Antoni ball out of their system and then he can loosen the reigns a bit for more threes and for the second unit to truly get out and run.

Gotta love how from day 1 Kobe was establishing himself in the post and defensive rotations were clearly ephasized. So far so good for Byron...might not be the greatest coach in the world but he is going to help.

 

Im no coach but at first i didnt like the fact that he saying this BUT once i thought about it, he did say average. A 15 3 per game avg is not unreasonable. Some nights more some nights less. For the most part game flow should dictate the amount of threes taken.

 

The number of threes doesn't matter ... how these are created/come from DO ... if threes come from an inside-outside game and/or ball movement , I have no pb with our team shooting 20+ a game .

The current NBA is hard to watch because a lot of teams are chucking threes early in the shot clock with zero ball movement and in iso situations.

Spurs are relying on the three ball a good deal but if a player is randomly chucking a three 5 seconds into the possession , he's going to the bench after the next whistle

 

I'm not sure i trust referees as much as Byron does

 

Yeah you have to "earn" your reputation as a good defensive team ... if you just commit a lot of fouls as the latest Sloan Jazz teams but aren't considered as a good defensive team , you're going to get called for lots of fouls ... unlike the Rivers Celtpricks teams which were able to get away with a lot of "physical play" .

 

10-15 would be near the bottom/at the bottom of the league and go against the advantages that making threes give you.

Would hope that we won't stick to that come the season...ultimately, everyone adjusts their plans once the season starts. Unless you are the rare team that just dominates everyone.

 

With a bleeding hole in his butt cheek.

 

Being balanced is key. 10 is too little, and I don't think Byron is so inflexible that he's going to hold to that number. He'll find a balance with this roster and figure it out.

 

I am never a fan of putting a # on what we should be doing. A few years ago we were just taking 3's because it was the fun thing to do. Last year (even though it was painful) we took much more effective 3's within the flow of the game. I do like the idea that we want to attack the paint and get the higher quality shots but we need to, as many have said, have balance. They can shoot 1 or 30 for all I care as long as we are winning and neither become the norm.

 

yep. I like the scott is sticking with the "tough it up" theme, which is decidedly anti-dantoni (and thus great). however, pinpointing numbers is silly. I think simply stating that the team won't just take the first available three (like, say, Houston) is a statement of philosophy that will suffice.

I do wonder whether publicizing the strategy of foul fatigue is a the right way to approach it. jerry sloan and hubie brown certainly pioneered this--and it does work. but can you explicitly state it to the press and not expect ref blowback? I mean, james harden is never going to say to a reporter "well, I just like to get a step on my guy then toss my body into whatever's there whilst flailing my arms. 9 times out of 10, they'll call a foul out of sheer awkwardness".

 

I understand not wanting to shoot an insane amount of threes, but aiming for a certain number per game isn't all that smart. You have to take what the offense gives you and some days that might be shooting a good amount of open threes.