RJ is shooting 53% from 2pt land. I'd love to know how that divides between transition and half court play; I suspect his transition game is tremendously helping his overall shooting percentage. He isn't effecient from the three (numbers easily verify that) and, only judging by the eye test, isn't very efficient when driving in a half court set up.
Who would I prefer shooting more than him? Zion is at 72% compared to RJ's 53%. But I suspect the same is true for Zion in that his finishes in transition tremendously help his drives in the half court offense. Even in the half court, many of his points probably come from lobs and last night he couldn't drive without charging.
All that to say I mostly agree with you. I'm hard on RJ - only because I know he has it in him and I only expect him to improve - but it seems that we have an efficiency problem as a team in the half court offense. Right now, we have no one who reliably shoots the three. It doesn't seem to me that anyone is very reliable or consistent in creating their own shot either. But our ball movement IS good as is our players movement without the ball which I think allows us to get a lot of lobs and/or inside 2's.
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Right now Cam brings next to nothing on offense; I hope he breaks out of this funk soon. Having said that, he is playing extremely well on defense. I give him major credit for not getting down and out about his offensive struggles and allowing it to affect his game on defense. He came up big for us last night.
Tre is a warrior. RJ and Zion receive all the hype, but Tre deserves more recognition.
In that same vein, Jack White is all heart. His fundamentals are amazing and his motor is ridiculous.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Right now, we don't have a single, consistent outside shooter. That's troublesome. Both Grayson and Gary struggled last season, but we all knew they were capable shooters. This team just doesn't have one of those guys. AOC can shoot it, but I don't see him getting the major minutes, and right now he shouldn't. The only one with the potential to be that guy, consistently, is Cam. If he can break out, then that almost makes R.J. unguardable. Tech just sat back and sagged all night. We better get used to it, because this is how teams will play against us all season. If we shoot the ball well, it's really, really hard to beat us. Really hard.
Thankfully, we play defense. Without that, this would be another six or seven loss team in conference play.