Saturday, February 18, 2017

Johnson's shooting

In the last six games, Marcus Johnson was 7 of 31 from the arc, or 22.6%. Overall he was 19 of 69 for 27.5%. That in itself would not be ruinous except for the fact that for the season he has taken half again as many shots as anyone on the team except for Jalen Jackson, and 40% more even than Jackson. There is just no way you are going to win many ballgames on that kind of shooting. The reason for it is beside the point; the bottom line is that that is just not smart basketball.

To Johnson's credit, he is getting to the line a lot, and he is making his shots there, so that is a plus; but I seriously doubt that you can win many games by one man's free throw shooting, especially if his other numbers are so bad.

This is a problem only Wes Flanigan can fix, but he obviously is not going to address it. If you let a player keep blasting away when he is not making shots, then as a coach you have no one to blame but yourself.

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