Sentences with phrase «lower percentage shots»

But All - Stars like Jimmy Butler and Demarre Derozan who are Max contracts because of their low percentage shot making.

And layups are not low percentage shots.

This results him drifting towards the ball, with no positional discipline, and taking extremely low percentage shots from no business angles.

Not exact matches

Opponents are shooting a lower percentage at the rim against him than Roy Hibbert and Anthony Davis, the other two in the top three in that category.

McGrady admits he often settled for jumpers while winning his second straight scoring title last year, causing his shooting percentage to sink to a career - low.417.

Like to see them involve Matt «cleans the glass» Wolk more on the Offensive side as he routinely shoots a high percentage from the field and does much of the dirty work down low.

But it might also be that the defense was of playoff intensity and that the percentage of low - percentage and heavily - contested shots was higher than during the regular season.

They held Memphis to just 25 percent shooting through the first two frames and kept them out of the paint, forcing them into tough, contested shots and low - percentage shots.

Seventeen points, 12 assists and five rebounds with a stellar shooting percentage and a low turnover rate.

The fact that someone would question the top - 10 ranking of a now - gimpy 31 - year - old guard, who's been hobbled by two bad knees... who posted the lowest scoring average of his career since his rookie year... who posted his lowest free - throw shooting percentage of his entire career... who really struggled in the playoffs... isn't that crazy, really.

Finally, Seguin's shooting percentage overall is a bit low for him, considering he's supposed to be healthy this year after requiring should surgery at the end of last year.

Game 6 should be more of the same, with hard fouls, low shooting percentages and a final score more resembling a football game than a basketball game.

Think with options next year surrounding him, even if his shooting doesn't improve this summer, his percentages should rise and turnovers should be lower.

He was also 3rd on the team in offensive rating (110), 4th in true shooting percentage -LRB-.525), 2nd in Assist % (22.4), and had the 3rd lowest turnover % among regulars (7.2 %), which was the best of his career, and a continued improvement over when he came into the league.

His weak points is that he loses the ball much (obviously) and that he too often tries low percentage plays like shots from distance and hopeless crosses.

Nurk will not command over $ 15M per year as he has low shooting percentage for a center and no 3 point shot.

It's why the Sixers, who play great defense, give up lower percentages on open shots.

PERCENTAGE of shots taken as threes by Paige and the No. 9 Tar Heels, one of the lowest rates in the nation.

Last season, his 24 shots per game were easily the most in the league and his.425 % shooting percentage was the lowest of the top 20 scorers in the league.

Portland's defense held opponents to the lowest shooting percentage in the restricted area this season, according to NBA.com, but can't seem to keep Holiday from trucking his way to the rim.

if the percentages are too low, if there's too much bust to go with that boom, then why would you waste a lottery pick trying to draft a long shot «superstar»?

He is shooting at nearly the highest rate of his entire career (~ 20 FTA / 36) while at the lowest percentage of his career.

• While Josh Richardson has been very good defensively (he's allowing the fifth - lowest shooting percentage against the player he's guarding among all NBA guards), his offensive game remains uneven during an injury plagued season.

He is also getting off fewer shots (2.5) and winning a lower percentage of aerial duels (52).

Some seasons, such as in 2014 — 2015, effectiveness is low: A high percentage of people who get the shot still get the flu.

There, the legendary «Big Dipper» sank barely 5 of 10 shots, one of the lowest percentages in professional basketball.

It has worked better in some cases than in others (the lower the percentage of spandex in the fabric the better it seems), but even the not - so - successful attempts haven't ruined a pair for me, so that might be worth a shot.

Steven Soderbergh shot the creepy psychological thriller «Unsane» on an iPhone 7 Plus, and while it certainly doesn't have even a low percentage of the visual richness and vibrant light and fill - the - screen magnificence of high - end Soderbergh films such as «Erin Brockovich,» «Ocean's Eleven» and «Logan Lucky,» let's not kid ourselves:

Obviously the head and limbs will have lower percentages than firing at a torso, but a head shot is a reward in and of itself.

As regular readers know, I'm a big Golden State Warriors fan and regularly visualize myself as Stephen Curry when I'm often shooting three - pointers when I'm playing (unfortunately, the percentage of my shots that actually go in is far, far lower than Curry's).

The percentage of consumers with low scores who paid credit cards rather than home loans shot up to 29 % in the third quarter of 2009 from 19.1 % in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to TransUnion.

Rather than the slow pace of rate hikes so far that has kept interest income at a low level, increase rates by a half or three - quarters of a percentage point in one shot.