MIN 	FGM-A 	3PM-A 	FTM-A
Bill Walker, SG	        26	1-5	0-4	0-0
Landry Fields, G	34	1-8	0-3	2-4
Steve Novak, SF	        20	2-9	1-7	0-0
Iman Shumpert, G	26	3-9	1-4	2-2

These are our shooters from the perimeter. You can't win if you can't hit shots. This leads to Lin feeling like he has to force it, which leads to more TO's. We really haven't had good shooting all year to be honest. This is the reason you want to have Melo and JR Smith and a healthy Baron too. With Baron not so much the shooting but another ball handler and decision maker out there.

If Fields and Shumpert can't show up against the worst team in basketball at home, just wait and see when the postseason happens. My God, teams leave Shumpert wide open to load the paint. Fields has probably bricked more wide open three-pointers than most other players in the league.

Now when you close with a line-up of:

Lin
JR Smith
Melo
Amare
Chandler

who the hell are you going to double team? you try to take away one option and someone else will fck you up.

airchibundo507 wrote:I think the JR haters owe an apology to us people who have wanted him the most.

If Fields and Shumpert can't show up against the worst team in basketball at home, just wait and see when the postseason happens. My God, teams leave Shumpert wide open to load the paint. Fields has probably bricked more wide open three-pointers than most other players in the league.

Now when you close with a line-up of:

Lin
JR Smith
Melo
Amare
Chandler

who the hell are you going to double team? you try to take away one option and someone else will fck you up.

rp wrote:

ATrain wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:I think the JR haters owe an apology to us people who have wanted him the most.

If Fields and Shumpert can't show up against the worst team in basketball at home, just wait and see when the postseason happens. My God, teams leave Shumpert wide open to load the paint. Fields has probably bricked more wide open three-pointers than most other players in the league.

Now when you close with a line-up of:

Lin
JR Smith
Melo
Amare
Chandler

who the hell are you going to double team? you try to take away one option and someone else will fck you up.

The Melo haters should apologize as well.

We can use that line up on certain situation cause that line up has no D.

Shumpert and Fields have no O.

We can't have defenses leaving them wide open every possession to congest the paint. Sure, Melo alleviates that quite a bit, but with JR at SG, the line-up has ideal spacing and could perhaps be the most potent and dynamic offensive unit in the league.

airchibundo507 wrote:

rp wrote:

ATrain wrote:

airchibundo507 wrote:I think the JR haters owe an apology to us people who have wanted him the most.

If Fields and Shumpert can't show up against the worst team in basketball at home, just wait and see when the postseason happens. My God, teams leave Shumpert wide open to load the paint. Fields has probably bricked more wide open three-pointers than most other players in the league.

Now when you close with a line-up of:

Lin
JR Smith
Melo
Amare
Chandler

who the hell are you going to double team? you try to take away one option and someone else will fck you up.

The Melo haters should apologize as well.

We can use that line up on certain situation cause that line up has no D.

Shumpert and Fields have no O.

We can't have defenses leaving them wide open every possession to congest the paint. Sure, Melo alleviates that quite a bit, but with JR at SG, the line-up has ideal spacing and could perhaps be the most potent and dynamic offensive unit in the league.

loweyecue wrote:

nixluva wrote:For all the complaints about Melo and JR Smith, i'm THANKFUL that we've got re-enforcements coming. You can't go up against the league every night with no bullets in your gun except for Lin, STAT and Tyson!!! Teams took away the paint and we had no perimeter game to make them pay. It's a HUGE part of the equation. FT's were awful tonight, but overall it's really the perimeter shooting that has to back up the PnR to allow it to be effective or else teams just pack it in on you.

         	        MIN 	FGM-A 	3PM-A 	FTM-A
Bill Walker, SG	        26	1-5	0-4	0-0
Landry Fields, G	34	1-8	0-3	2-4
Steve Novak, SF	        20	2-9	1-7	0-0
Iman Shumpert, G	26	3-9	1-4	2-2

These are our shooters from the perimeter. You can't win if you can't hit shots. This leads to Lin feeling like he has to force it, which leads to more TO's. We really haven't had good shooting all year to be honest. This is the reason you want to have Melo and JR Smith and a healthy Baron too. With Baron not so much the shooting but another ball handler and decision maker out there.

Novak has hit his shots before this. Its not like JR will not have off days,

Don't get me wrong. I'm not anti-Novak. It's really about having other options. We can't get what we need from a certain guy, it's nice to have another option and also JR has more ways to attack a defense.

My main concern is that perimeter shooting is HUGE for this offense. We will never have any room in the paint if we can't hit from outside. When you add in Bibby and TD it underscores even more how bad our shooting has been this year.

NYKBocker wrote:Novak had an off night shooting. It happens.

Surely. I'm just glad we've got help coming cuz it makes a huge difference when you have BETTER options out there all game and a big part of their success is also their reputation as a real threat to score. Teams get a bit more nervous and uncomfortable when you have guys like Melo and JR out there roaming around.

I'm really concerned with Fields shot. It's a frozen rope right now. No arc, no touch. Just a rocket straight at the basket.

markvmc wrote:Not the hardest unit to score against, though.

Excellent point. Which is why Shumpert will likely be on the court at the ends of games when we need defense.