Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Lottie is a point

Jaizec Lottie is NOT a shooting guard. His career shooting percentage from the 3-point line is 28%. However, since both he and Markquis Nowell averaged 30 minutes per game last season, it stands to reason that they were on the court together a good bit of the time. I wonder how much that will happen this year. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using a double-point set-up some of the time. It gives you a distinct advantage in some aspects of the game. However, Walker went to great lengths to increase the height of his perimeter players and brought in three 6-6 players who are listed as shooting guards. So, why go to that trouble if they are going to sit on the bench, because that takes away an advantage he was working hard to achieve? In short, it certainly looks like the minutes of either Nowell or Lottie are going to decrease this season - either that or DW wasted some of his recruiting efforts.

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