Rubio - Roster Review

[bleedspeed]

Good read on Rubio.

http://www.nba.com/timberwolves/roster-review-ricky-rubio

Looking at his shot chart. He is good shooting from straight on or the pull ups near the top of the key. Sucks at finishing as we all know, but equally as bad in the corners. The offensne should never put him as a spot up corner shooter or even around the arch. When he doesn't have the ball he should be at the top of the key. That way he can decide to shoot, put it on the floor and drive or dish.

[Papalrep]

Good read thanks

[Monster]

Good read on Rubio.

http://www.nba.com/timberwolves/roster-review-ricky-rubio

Looking at his shot chart. He is good shooting from straight on or the pull ups near the top of the key. Sucks at finishing as we all know, but equally as bad in the corners. The offensne should never put him as a spot up corner shooter or even around the arch. When he doesn't have the ball he should be at the top of the key. That way he can decide to shoot, put it on the floor and drive or dish.

Bleed I absolutely agree with you on where you want Rubio to operate and how to operate in the offense. I think we all want Rubiobto be Tubio and what you outlined seems to play to his strengths and actually to other player's strengths as well.

I will add I am not sure I would say there is enough evidence to say Rubio is a poor corner 3 shooter. 20% of his total 3 point attempts have been from the corner according to BBREF (link below) and that means 67 total 3's in his career. 26 came in his 82 games season which he shot poorly from there as he did last year too but that's a pretty small sample of shots but it is all we have. The 2 years before he shot good percentages from those spots. I am not saying he is good from the corner 3 I just don't think there is enough to say one way or another. My guess is that on catch and shoot 3's which seems what most of those corner 3's tend to be he would hit them at an ok rate since generally Rubio has been good in catch and shoot situations. His shot changing could alter that though so it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Hopefully Rubio can stay healthy and we can find out more about what type of shooter and even scorer he is this year and set up the following year to be THE year where we can likely know pretty much what we have there or if there is some actual significant positive improvement then make some reasonable hopeful predictions. I just want him to stay healthy so bad.

http://m.bkref.com/m?p=XXplayersXXrXXrubiori01.html&t=5

[The Rage Monster [enjin:8010341]]

Interesting article hopefully we can see a fully healthy Rubio all season!

I know scoring is a weakness (and it's a big one) but I can't figure out why it's such a big deal when it's literally his only below average area. I watched Love and he was horrible at defense, basically on the same level as Rubio's shooting in my opinion, yet he was essentially given a pass on that end of the court. I don't see the difference between someone incapable of putting the ball through the hoop or someone incapable of defending the ball from going through the hoop. Theoretically we'll have enough guys who can score, I think we just need to let Rubio do what he does best and hope he stay healthy.

[TeamRicky [enjin:6648771]]

Good points. Rubio has always been one of the team's best plus minus leaders.