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Originally Posted by Seadood228
As it stands, his ability to accurately hit the 3's in that spot make him a break even player on offense......
I wanted to address this point as it was referring to Bowen but applies to players like Bell/Posey/Battier etc. as well. I think these players are actually + offensive players which their stats don't suggest. Infact I think sometimes if they score very few points, they can have a better offensive game than someone who scores more points.
Let me explain further, what makes these players so valueable on offense is the defender has to stay with them, or else they will give up an open 3 (simple terms as yes sometimes people can rotate but usually when u get the defense rotating like that, these guys are good enough passers to find the next open man)
So say the defender stays with Bell/Posey/Bowen/Battier etc. all game long, and they get 0 points and didn't even take a shot. They still were effective on offense. Why? Because they spread the floor and allowed ur star offensive players to go 4 on 4 instead of 5 on 5.
Now if the defender leaves them to double, the defender will a ton of the time pay as these guys are almost all 40+ percent 3pt shooters who thrive off open looks.
Now I have a good example of a player who I can't name who hasn't been drafted. But he can't shoot a 3, infact his midrange shot is pretty shaky as well, and he needs the ball in his hands to be effective. Now let's say they gave him the ball on a few cuts to the basket and he scored a decent amount of points (lets say 12 for arguments sake). However each time he was out by the 3pt line/even midrange line, the defense doubled off him cause they didn't have to respect his jump shot. He hurts the offense overall (where as Bell/Bowen/Battier etc. helped by forcing the defender to stay with them and letting everyone go 4 on 4), because if the guy who is getting doubled doesn't pass him the ball because he can't trust him to hit a jump shot, he is forced to take a tough shot into a double team. And if he does pass him the ball, the guy tends to either turn down a ton of open shots (because he struggles hitting them) which results in him having to give the ball back to the star with the shot clock running down, or driving to the hoop where defenders are able to recover in time (infact they want this player driving to the hoop more than star players for obvious reasons), or he takes shots at a low percentage which also hurts the offense.
Again a lot of this doesn't even show up in the stat sheet as they don't have a stat for how many open looks u turned down, or how many times it was ur ability to not be able to shoot which resulted in one of ur star players having to take a tough shot, but this is a very important part of basketball.
That was long but I tried to explain it as well as I can. Like I have said before, there is only one basketball, meaning only one person can touch the ball at a given time, and you need players to spread the floor with deadly 3pt shots who don't need the ball in their hands to be effective (infact it doesn't matter that Bell/Bowen etc. can't create their own shot as they don't need to to be good on offense, I mean it would obv be great if they could create their own shots at a high percentage while being great defenders/great 3pt shooters but those players went in the first 2 rounds).
Last edited by EPiPeN11; 06-14-2008 at 04:06 PM.