There will be an adjustment period where guys will have to understand taking more 3s doesn’t mean taking bad 3s that lead to easy transition buckets for the other team.
So far a lot of that is going on from what I’ve seen in the preseason. Need better shot selection from players https://t.co/Y1Xzo6OGKY
— QuestFor18 (@HisandHerLakers) October 16, 2024
Taking more 3s doesn’t mean taking bad 3s
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October 17, 2024 1 Comment
Well the honeymoon didn’t last too long for some folks out there lol.
This is why he was smart to already walk back an arbitrary number and why picking a number out of the air makes zero sense to me. 20, 30, 40, 50, even 60 three point attempts could be the right number on any given night. But to say that we, as a team, in order to win games, NEED to take _____ number of threes in every game is just flat wrong and the bad shots we’ve watched for most of preseason bear that out.
The goal should be taking a good shot, not a shot from a specific location. Sometimes the two meet up and that’s great. Sometimes they don’t and that needs to be OK if you want to play winning basketball. Winning basketball needs to be the goal when you man that bench for the purple and gold. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is going to wait for you to go through 2-3 years of growing pains and getting the that perfect core group of guys to buy into your system before you get shit-canned.
That core group of guys might last a season or two. JJ could be gone before the trading deadline if that’s how we end up playing night in and night out, podcast creds be damned. He’s on LeBron James’ timeline, not anyone else’s and LeBron has brought friends to the team and subsequently helped show them the door in the name of winning plenty of times.
Still, only preseason and that gutsy win by our future G-Leaguers bought Reddick at least the space to not go through preseason 0-fer. But every loss, and especially any losing streaks, are going to be under a microscope of epic and petty proportions. Should see more starters tomorrow night which should help.