You can’t just drive every time. You either run out of the energy to do so or you stop getting calls because the ref isn’t going to blow the whistle every time. Someone like Lebron could drive and score or get fouled on every single trip down the floor but it’s easier said than done. Donovan took 28 shots tonight and 10 were 3s, meaning 18 were not. He drove pretty often, he also isn’t getting a call sometimes and isn’t going to for the most part as a rookie.
At this point I think it’s messing with him a bit. He knows that 3 isn’t falling and you can see him hesitate or hard pump fake on a lot of shots right now, which just makes it worse. He isn’t confidently taking those shots. I mean this is the modern NBA though, 3s matter too much not to take them....so if not him who’s he passing to? Ingles passes up shots and isn’t going to put up a bunch more...and nobody else is exactly solid from 3. He HAS to take those shots. I simply hope that all the people he sees calling him a chucker, and knowing the shot isn’t falling doesn’t get inside his head enough to continue what we saw tonight. He wasn’t shooting confidently, and wasn’t really wanting to take some of the shots he took from 3.
“”Just drive” sounds easy until the ref won’t blow his whistle or after doing it 3 or 4 times you’re exhausted. Like I said if it was so easy a guy like Lebron could do it every play all game long, it’s not that easy, and it’s even harder when you’re 6’3”.
