Jazz Coach eager to Get Ball Rolling

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I think CJ's percentages have to improve this year. He isn't a great shooter, but he isn't a sub 40% FG either.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

The punctuation was all wrong; I fixed it.

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hmm says I need to spread it around.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I'm concerned that he's about to coach an NBA team, and he's talking about his mom.

 

[NAOS]

Champing is correct and chomping is actually incorrect.

Well, I learned something new today. It looks like both versions are permissible, "chomping..." being a derivation of the earlier "champing..."

But, I grew up in the region in which this article was published, and I've never seen it before. So, I prefer my naively imagined scenario. Many thanks, however, for the wisdom.

 

[idiot]

I am a Miles apologist so take this with a grain of salt, and feel free to ridicule me. CJ took an astounding number of shots last year from 16 -24 seconds on the clock, and 20% of his shots came from 21+ (82games). Our second unit last year had no scorers whatsoever. His numbers from 0 to 16 averaged out to like 51%. So I don't think CJ's problem was taking bad shots, his problem was having to take all the shots at the end of the clock for our futile offense on the second unit.

This is actually fascinating. I tend to agree many people here tend to overlook the last-seconds-in-the-shotclock shots CJ threw up last year. He shot nearly 50% of his shots in 16+ seconds into the shotclock. All our other wings were at 36-40% of their shots in that time range. He likely did it, as you suggest, because nobody else on the team could create their own shot as effectively. Unfortunately, he did shoot at a rather poor percentage in these end-of-the-shotclock situations (as did AK). Hayward didn't shoot as many, but made these shots at a very high percentage (Raja wasn't all that bad, amazingly enough).

Last year, at least, you wanted Hayward shooting at any time other than 10-15 seconds into the shotclock (near 40% then, but well over 50% at every other time), while AK and CJ were the best at 10-15 seconds into the shotclock.