I'm not criticizing his decision-making, he always TRIES to make the right play. I'm not mad at Zo. I'm mad at our coaching staff for putting him in that position. The problem is we aren't in the future. Right now he's the worst shooter in the NBA. And we had him taking consecutive shots in crunch time, embarrassing himself in the process. That's setting him up for failure.
its a bad shot when youre a bad shooter, like others have said, teams are leaving him open for a reason
I'll agree to disagree here. I think if he's actually open and the shot is in good rhythm he should take it. The last shot clearly wasn't by design and I think it was not a good look. I don't think that was on the coaching staff. Just a bad decision. The rest I thought were good shots he just didn't make them. Luke Walton said after the game that he wants him to take good open shots so those others were still part of the plan. I'm ok with that. He'll hit them in time and if he doesn't try he won't get better. I don't see it as preparing for failure but for success. I'm not that concerned with right now. We aren't making the playoffs anyway.
he's got the yips, so I'm with him in his previous decision not to shoot. Watch Ben Simmons tapes, now that guy know what to do with his limitations
yep you can be a good scorer w/o being a good shooter....randle is another example of a guy who knows hes not a good shooter so he just does what hes good at...hell look at what Rondo was doing against us w/o being a good shooter
I don't think it's in his best interest to allow him to shoot right now. He's got the yips. You could shoot yourself out of slumps but not out of yips. Psychological factors (like failing repetitively) will only worsen the phenomenon. The coaching staff needs to understand the difference. It's just not the right way to deal with the yips.
A guy trying to putt for big money and jerks his putter. Or shooting could be same thing. In his head.
Made me think of a brick layer lonzo pic, so I made a couple. But all kidding aside, if you told me our rookie point guard would be averaging 10/7/7, I'd have been ecstatic. We've seen him do more, and do it better, so the growing pains are frustrating, but I believe he has the hard working character to figure it out and get there. In the meantime, suffer the wrath of fans like everyone else bro.
He called up his own number too much at the end . Kuz should have call him out before we were down by 3 ( clearly saw he was pissed and told Zo " my turn to shoot now"). Two problems : - The bad shooting from 3 as a rookie isn't a big deal ( CP2 and KD shot like crap too as rookies) , not looking at and trying to finish at the rim definetely is though . Being scared to go to the FT line , no floater, no midrange , that's a lot of things to work on ... and not with your dad. - This team needs playmakers to get him off the ball at times and find him on cuts
getting hard to watch him shoot. how could both of the top two picks in one nba draft get profound cases of the yips in their rookie year? something in the water? that one FT attempt hit like the bottom of the side of the rim. it's hard to miss like that.
When I see posts like this, it makes me wonder what games you guys are watching. So he struggles with shooting. What about everything he does well? Who cares about defense, playing, none of that matters, right? You guys do know he's a rookie and rookies have bad games, right? I wish I could thumbs down this post and a few others as well.
I don't dismiss the other facet of his gm but if youre not named klay or steph, you should not be taking 12 3s, in his recent struggles a large % of his shots are 3pt attempts....hes not a good shooter n hes not gona shoot himself out of this slump by "settling" for more 3s.....hell Rondo cant shoot for crap even now but hes not jacking up 12 3s but still managed an efficient 24pts along with 10+asst
