Minnesota Sports Forum

Squishypoo wrote:

SameOldNudityDrew wrote:With Teague instead of one of the good 3 point shooting PGs (I'm really thinking this could end up being a key missed opportunity), we REALLY need 3 point shooting.

I don't want anybody to re-litigate the "Millsap's 3 Point Shooting" debate, but if we add him (which, he's a very good player, and can defend, so in principle, that's ok by me), but we NEED to get shooters for this team.

There going hard for JJ redick.

Dude, amazing name. Amazing picture. You are now my favorite.

Teague, Butler, Wiggins and Towns are all league average 3pt shooters. We aren't trotting out 4 Rondo's. We have 3 guys who can take the ball to the bucket and get a basket which will cause defenses to need to collapse and open up good 3pt looks. The Rockets had 1 rotation guy shoot over 40% (Anderson). Beverly above average at 38% and Harden, Gordon and Ariza at 35%, 37%, 34%. League average works as long as you take the shots.

Think this millsap talk is about his agent trying to drive up his price. Money isnt there so lets not bid against ourselves. He wants to play for a winner in mn he will take less. Lol. That was funny to type

CoolBreeze44 wrote:

60WinTim wrote:

BloopOracle wrote:I have been laughed at here for weeks for saying we had a shot at him , what a surprise

Not sure it was believing we had a shot, but whether it was the best use of resources...

Exactly right. I don't like it.

Why not, move Gorgui

khans2k5 wrote:Teague, Butler, Wiggins and Towns are all league average 3pt shooters. We aren't trotting out 4 Rondo's. We have 3 guys who can take the ball to the bucket and get a basket which will cause defenses to need to collapse and open up good 3pt looks. The Rockets had 1 rotation guy shoot over 40% (Anderson). Beverly above average at 38% and Harden, Gordon and Ariza at 35%, 37%, 34%. League average works as long as you take the shots.

Agreed. You have to shoot them more than we do. And you have to have multiple guys on the floor who can shoot it to keep the whole floor stretched.

Harden and Ariza were average (but volume) shooters, but even though Anderson was the only one who hit over 40% (nothing to sneeze at), Beverley and Gordon also shot above the league average (35%).

Butler shot 37% last year, and I hope it stays up there. Towns shot almost 37% too, so that's good and promising. So that's two guys we have who were above the league average.

Wiggins hit the league average last year at 35%, but can he sustain it? Teague should be a 35 or 36% shooter, if history is a fair predictor, which is league average, but still a big improvement over Rubio.

On the bench, Tyus shot 35% but he won't play much. Bjelica had a horrible shooting year last year, and I hope he can bounce back from that.

I still think we need a dude who can crack 40%, in addition to shooting more 3s in general, as you rightly point out, Khans.