Western Conference Playoff Seeding Predictions

[playstation]

um, I'm not sure what you're talking about as far as streakS, considering that during the second major winning streak, JR was actually on fire (pretty much the only month of the season where he could be depended on every night).

very revisionist

15 gm winning stk: jones shoots 24.6%
17 gm winning stk: jones shoots 42.3%

i understand how 42.3% SEEMS like its on fire compared to the painfully horrible first streak, but where i come from, that qualifies as somewhere between average and slightly below average.

if barbosa shoots that for a month, we call that a mediocre month...an 'on fire' month would be barbosas february, when he shot 48% fg and 58% from 3...

if you're 'on fire', you're hitting AT LEAST 45%, probably closer to 50%...

this year, the month that grant hill shoots 42.3% will be the month people say he had a cold streak.

 

[elindholm]

If Tucker plays 20+ minutes per game over a month, shooting 42% with most of his attempts from three-point range, we will say he's on fire. You can pretty much count on that.

 

[Cheesebeef]

very revisionist

15 gm winning stk: jones shoots 24.6%
17 gm winning stk: jones shoots 42.3%

i understand how 42.3% SEEMS like its on fire compared to the painfully horrible first streak, but where i come from, that qualifies as somewhere between average and slightly below average.

if barbosa shoots that for a month, we call that a mediocre month...an 'on fire' month would be barbosas february, when he shot 48% fg and 58% from 3...

if you're 'on fire', you're hitting AT LEAST 45%, probably closer to 50%...

this year, the month that grant hill shoots 42.3% will be the month people say he had a cold streak.

dude shot 30/66 from 3 for the month (45%) - that's pretty on fire for a guy who's role is specifically to stretch the defense and to shoot threes, no?

do you really think it was a coincidence that we were at our best this season when we had an 8th man contributing like Jr. did during that stretch? Good depth, waves of outside shooters and everything else that comes with this team made us look unbeatable and like it or not, having an 8th man who shot 45% from three and gave decent hustle play out there was a key factor in that run. (now I know some moron's probably gonna say: "Oh so they only won all those games because of Jr! Good call Cheese" - so I'll just get this out of the way as a pre-meptive strike - anyone who says that is a moron who just doesn't want to accept the fact that being a solid 8 man team is what made this team as good as it was, especially when it got incredibly fat on wins during the first half of the season, as opposesd to struggling a bit more down the stretch record wise in comparison once injuries set in).

 

[azirish]

Jones was a good three point shooter, but not a great one. But what was more disconcerting was that the rest of is his offense was so limited:

Last year, James Jones took 440 shots with 238 of them for three. Of the remaining 206 shots, only 26 were layups. Of the mid range shots, he hit only 50 of 149 and just 7 of 27 short shots: 32.4% overall.

As might be reasonable, his three point attempts dropped as his shooting percentage dropped. The problem is that with nothing other than three point shooting, it becomes easy to stop worrying about him when his confidence fails.

I think Jones has talent, but was too limited for what the Suns need.