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    Vuch looks way more comfortable shooting the 3 this season, which I think has really opened up the floor for everyone else.

    Edit: I was looking at his stats and was surprised to see that he is attempting about an extra shot per game this season compared to last, but is attempting 1 fewer 3 per game. I think that helps illustrate what we can see with our eyes, that he isn't being lazy and settling for long jumpers on offense like he has in the past.

    He is also shooting career highs from every distance but the mid-range 2 (10-16 feet). I don't think that his level of efficiency is likely to remain as high as it has, but I think he should continue to be more efficient than he has been in the past if he continues to play the same way.

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    Some shooting things:

    Gordon is currently scoring over 76% of his shots around the basket.

    For reference, Lebron James has only passed those percentages around the basket 4 times in his 16 year career, the first time coming when he was 28.

    Our team as a whole is 4th in FG% around the basket (within 3 feet). However, we are second to last in the number of attempts at the rim- which is probably part of what is deflating our efficiency numbers.

    On the other hand, we are 12th in the % of shots taken 3-10 feet, while being the 20th most efficient in that area, and 7th in % of shots taken 10-16 feet  while being 29th most efficient from that area.

    We also take the 5th most long 2s (16 to the 3 pt. line) as a portion of our total shots, but we are 7th most efficient from that range.

    From the 3, we are average in both attempts (35% of our shots are from 3, which puts us 16th), and efficiency (34.6% as a team which puts us 19th).

    We are still the worst team at getting to the free throw line, even though we are 16th in free throw shooting percentage.

    Basically, our efficiency issues are a combination of us not generating shots in areas where we are good to average and taking too high of a percentage of our shots in areas where we are not efficient (mostly in the mid-range), while also not being able to get to the free throw line. Thankfully, our efficiency numbers have been going up.

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    7 minutes ago, Mauro Pedrosa said:

    We still have a deeply flawed team with a horrible bench and Clifford has led us to wins over the Celtics, Sixers and Spurs, while showing great ball movement. I have to tip my hat to that and I'm hopeful about what he can do with better players.

    I was team tank but that ain't happening. The bottom of the East BLOWS and Caris LeVert just went down. Watching some Magic playoff basketball would be fun even if we got swept.

    I don't think our bench is that bad, the issue is that they don't really work as a unit right now.

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    So, a few things I have been thinking about:

    Only 2 players had bad games, Fournier and Bamba.

    Best game by Iwundu in his young career. If he can do that more often, he will be in the league for a while.

    Simmons really needed that game.

    Isaac was huge during that run.

    Ross is a boss.

    Vuch is legit beginning to demand serious respect. Not only offensively, but he was a big part of the reason Embiid went ice cold in the second half.

    Gordon just does so many nice things on the court now. How many of his passes ended with the receiving player getting fouled? Also, some legit defense. Loved that block where he just ripped the ball away from the other guy.

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    14 minutes ago, ?4thewin said:

    I don't know how I feel about that which probably means it's a good trade

    Hmm. Gut reaction is that we seem to be getting the slightly worse end of that deal- which probably means that it is fair.

    Breaking it down, Fournier is still young, but Fultz is obviously younger with higher potential. Chandler would add extra cap space going into next year. Fournier is currently better and would be the perfect offensive player for Philly to acquire. We are probably not hurt too much by this though with how Ross has been playing. Fultz fits our timeline, and has the potential to be good even if he does not re-find his shot.

    He is shooting 31% so far this year from 3 (ok, he has only taken 13 and made 4 so super small sample size), but that suggests that it isn't as broken as people seem to make it out as. Also, he is already pretty good around the rim, finishing 65% within 3 feet so far in his career (both this year and last year)- that is something young guards often struggle with. (Some examples for reference: Kemba has never even passed 60%, Curry didn't until his 6th year, Oladipo didn't until last year, Iving didn't until last year, Rondo only hit that mark once, in his 4th year, CP3 didn't until his 8th year).

    I think I might actually be pretty excited if we swung a trade for him. 

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