I thought this deserved a thread, because I crunched some numbers. Obviously, the bad bench shooting is a thing over the last six games -- I have them at 47/182 for that stretch on field goals (or 25.8%), which is pretty bad. However, in the first 11 games this year they were 121/309 (39.2%), which is not great, but if the defense is pretty good, I suppose you can live with it.
Average it all together and it comes out to 168/491 (34.2%), which again is bad, but heavily influenced by this six-game rotten stretch.
So I'm wondering how bad they really are. Larkin was 44.2% his last year with Brooklyn and is 25.5% this year, so he should improve. Smart has been beyond Marcus-bad lately, and that's hurting them. Rozier isn't having a great shooting year either (about 34%), and unfortunately, Rozier has always had a low FG percentage. Then they've got some rookies who are ... rookies.
What's reasonable to expect from this bunch? Can we get to 39% FG? Or could this bad shooting off the bench start killing us?
Average it all together and it comes out to 168/491 (34.2%), which again is bad, but heavily influenced by this six-game rotten stretch.
So I'm wondering how bad they really are. Larkin was 44.2% his last year with Brooklyn and is 25.5% this year, so he should improve. Smart has been beyond Marcus-bad lately, and that's hurting them. Rozier isn't having a great shooting year either (about 34%), and unfortunately, Rozier has always had a low FG percentage. Then they've got some rookies who are ... rookies.
What's reasonable to expect from this bunch? Can we get to 39% FG? Or could this bad shooting off the bench start killing us?