2016-2017 Season Discussion Thread

[Ibn Battuta 127]

Towns is ridiculous... 45pts 18reb... craziness

 

Minn comes back down 17 in the 4th by going on a 20 to 3 run... game has been fun to watch.

 

Where did Towns go in the draft

 

Lol he went #1

[Franchero MVP 391]

Lol he went #1

 

Lmao

[The Neighborhood Bully 266]

Payton is shooting 19.5% from 3 this year, compared to 32.6% last year. Hard to space the floor when your pg shoots like that.

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

Payton is shooting 19.5% from 3 this year, compared to 32.6% last year. Hard to space the floor when your pg shoots like that.

 

I'd gladly take 20% three point shooting if he was just consistent in everything else

[The Neighborhood Bully 266]

I'd gladly take 20% three point shooting if he was just consistent in everything else

It gets under some people’s skin with how much three-point shooting is spoken about these days, but it’s done so for good reason.

 

If you can shoot the ball from deep, the floor opens up in ways it didn’t before. Even Walker, the offensive savant that he is, said as much in a recent interview with The Ringer.

 

Payton is taking 2.4 three-point attempts this season, by far a career high. With a career average of 28 percent (not a good number), you would think at the very least he’s scoring at a similar rate.

 

Not so, as so far this season he’s averaging 19.5 percent from long range, a truly awful number.

http://hoopshabit.co...-elfrid-payton/

[Mauro Pedrosa 1,033]

Payton is shooting 19.5% from 3 this year, compared to 32.6% last year. Hard to space the floor when your pg shoots like that.

Timberwolves fans credit their weak PG play / shooting for most of the losses

[barnettej 263]

Lol he went #1

 

I can see why...lol

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

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http://hoopshabit.co...-elfrid-payton/

 

cool.

 

I'd still be fine with payton if he was consistent in everything else but a poor shooter.

 

We can scheme around that and hope for improvement over time. It's much more difficult to scheme around "is this guy going to be a good player this week".

[fan for too long 2 534]

Payton is horrible and Gordon is god. Got it. jeez u guys are too much. What is Gordon shooting? How bout Watson or rudez?

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

Payton is horrible and Gordon is god. Got it. jeez u guys are too much. What is Gordon shooting? How bout Watson or rudez?

 

Gordon is shooting 28% from 3. Watson is shooting 46% from 3. Rudez is shooting 36% from 3.

 

 

We'd be much more concerned about Gordon if he didn't have the highest positive impact on the team over the last 10 games.

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

see. look at the difference in Game Logs.

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/paytoel01/gamelog/2017 payton. 4 good games then 4 of 5 bad games. 2 good games then 4 bad games. then 3 good games.

 

Then look at Teague.

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/teaguje01/gamelog/2017

 

good game. then 3 bad games. then 11 of 12 good games. then 2 of 3 bad games.

 

then look at patty mills

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/millspa02/gamelog/2017

 

4 of 6 good games. then 4 of 6 bad games. then 5 of 7 good games.

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

look at Jrue Holiday in year 2 http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/holidjr01/gamelog/2011

 

couple good games. couple bad games. then 10 good games in a row. then up and down for a few weeks then 10 good games in a row. then up and down for two weeks then 16 of 18 good games.