Miami Heat: Shooting Not A ‘Jimmy Problem’ But A ‘Team Problem’
Yes, it would be ideal if he were to take and make more threes but in the reality, that’s not what’s happening.
Jimmy, pragmatically, just needs to provide enough of a threat to keep the defense honest, thus providing spacing for either himself to work in isolation or for his other playmakers, Kyle Lowry and Tyler Herro, to get things going.
He gotta finish that. But as well documented..Jimmy 2 and 1000 on last 1002 threes and Kuminga still flying into the stands off the pumpfake.
— K. (@K_Said_Que) March 24, 2022
He don’t have to be Steph. He just has to put it in their minds. What he’s been doing. Y’all just keep quoting his percentage though.
The concerns start to arise when the offense can’t get things going.
Things appear to be stagnant when Jimmy and Bam Adebayo share too much of the offense.
Adebayo also doesn’t shoot well from distance. But is it that he doesn’t shoot well or that he doesn’t really attempt them?
Bam is only attempting 0.1 threes a game. A player doesn’t need to be a threat from three to be effective.
It helps but isn’t a requirement. The spacing provided gives near or as much value as being a threat from deep.
Spacing, in this era, provides a significant contribution to offensive action and more so than we think about sometimes. This begs of the question of how things would look if Bam just tried at least one or two a game.
But then again, what whould it get him to even take it? That’s another battle in itself.