39 3-ball shots taken out of 87 fg shots....and only making 10
Great coaching plan for the first game of the season
Has nothing to do with coaching plan.
It has to do with soft players that didn't want to drive and settled for jumpshots.
Now it is Mike's fault for not discouraging that play. He needs to step up and make a change about playing players who are going to do that, and hopefully correct those tendencies. The problem is that they have freedom to play, which sometimes is bad because the lazy side is one that ends up on the court.
Mike Dantoni isn't making them shoot 3s, he just isn't stopping them.
Phoenix shot a lot of threes, but they never settled for them. They had a good interior game with Amare and Nash's penetration.
We're different because we aren't moving the ball like that. Our only bit of interior O is DLee on a pick and roll. Everyone else goes iso when going into the paint, we don't have the passing continuity.
I saw it ALOT tonight where guys were jacking shots from the wings with an open man in the corner, guys just settling on that shot when an open teammate was open, one who could have taken a more open 3, or driven.
Ball movement is our biggest problem on offense.