D'Angelo Russell Discussion: Adopting A Professional Attitude

I stand by what I said. I don't want Kobe taking 13 threes a game. I don't care if he's wide open, that's not a high percentage shot for him, and he's fallen in love with it because they are giving it to him. Cut that number in half and I feel a lot better.

 

I think he misspelled "hero worship."

 

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Probably.

 

No, I'm with you. I'm glad you posted those numbers. And your right, we just have to survival this avalanche until it subsides.

 

Also notice how Bass is on the perimeter for that play, more like a 4, instead of stuck under the hoop being wasted as the 5 he isn't. Use your PF as a PF. It's sort of like if we stuck Randle under the hoop and expected him to be the same player.

 

Kobe is a good shooter when open, he just takes ridiculously tough shots some times. If he's open he should shoot the 3, regardless of how many. Silly to say he shouldn't take them even if he's wide open because of some arbitrary number.

 

Again, I stand by what I said. Nobody should be taking 13 threes per game except maybe those 2 dudes on the Warriors. If Kobe wants to take around 6-7, ok, because he can make 2-4 and it's not gonna hurt us. But you're taking 13, making 3, maybe 5 on a good night, no way. He's not a 3 point shooter, he's better closer. Look at the stats from the first game, he shot so much better from 2. I'm not saying don't shoot threes, I'm saying what I thought you were saying, stop chucking.

 

^He shoots a bad % because he takes contested 3s, pretty simple. Kobe is a good shooter, wide open he will make them at good clip. The number of shots has no bearing on that. Shooting 33% from 3 is the same as shooting 50% from the 2, btw. You're telling me, Kobe, an NBA guard, can't hit a 3 with no one guarding him at 33%? That's ridiculous.

 

He's been taking open ones (as open as he gets) since preseason game 1, hasn't seemed to make a difference on make and misses. He makes what he makes, he'll make contested ones and airball a wide open one, he's streaky from 3.

What are we even arguing here though? I'm saying he shot too many threes and needs to cut that down, you seem to be arguing something else entirely. I just said I'd be ok with him going 2-7 on threes, as opposed to 3-13. Unless my math is really wrong, that's less than %33 and I said I'm ok with it, because he's not chucking a bunch of long shots. I don't think I said what you ended by saying, so how is anything I've said ridiculous?