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pullingthestringz

Anyone Else Think Patty Should Shoot More?

With many of our top scorers out, Patty should be shooting more. He is averaging 7.8 fga per game, which is the exact same as last year when we had a lot less possessions to spare.

He is shooting a bit less efficiently (39.1% from three this year vs 41.4% last year) but if you look at his yearly numbers, he generally tends to shoot better when he gets more shots - which makes sense right? More shots makes it easier to get into rhythm.

Id be really interested to see what would happen if he took 5-6 threes a game, and maybe 10-12 shots overall, taking a few shots away from Forbes or Pau.

I mean what are we paying the man for? To get buckets. He isn't a plus defender (maybe he is in the aggregate and for his position, but not on an elite defensive team) but we are going to play him, so we should be trying to get him as hot as possible to mitigate his weak defense.

Idk if it would work, but it would be interesting to see? What do you guys think?

Posted Feb 11, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

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Tht1guy101•

Based on last night. Or just in general lately. No. Definitely not.

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LeatherPermit•

Dude you’ve got to be joking. Give it to the guy who’s playing horrible. Wtf

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pullingthestringzOP•

Not joking at all. Patty is more efficient than everyone on our team except Kyle, Davis and Derrick White. I think he could get even more efficient if he took more shots and got in better rythm.

You say he is playing horrible, but his stats are almost exactly the same as last year. Practically identical turnovers, assist, and points. That was WITH Kawhi playing. We should look for him on offense more, especially with our lack of shooting.

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LeatherPermit•

So remove lamarcus aldridge also and just give the ball to the man with a mop you are not intelligent severely lacking in brain cells and you do not know what is the eye test

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Kobe_Wan_Ginobili•

You think he's playing horrible but it's probably not because of his shooting you think that. He led the team in true shooting percentage until last game when Davis overtook him

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LeatherPermit•

You’ve got to be on drugs man I have no answer for you how is his defense

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Kobe_Wan_Ginobili•

I don't think I'm disagreeing with you, you say he's playing horrible but it's probably not cause of his shooting seeing as his percentages are 2nd best on team.

It's probs he defence and turnovers you don't like. So if he's gonna be out there we might as well get the offensive value out of him by getting him more shots. He's our best offensive rating and worst defensive rating so maximise the offensive side is what I'm saying

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LeatherPermit•

Dude he’s not good at offense. He just shoots a lot of Threes of the dribble. Most of them bounce of. He’s not worth he money. Spurs should get rid of him. Anybody who dislikes this or downvotes this is boneheaded because compare his 2014 play to now he was playing any position didn’t complain about oh I’m pg now now I’m sg he didn’t complain at all that’s the mills everybody liked not this flopper bitch he was a GRINDER 2014

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Drisurk•

No.

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MightyNuts•

Yes, absolutely.

Partly needs to get back in rhythm abs the only way he does that is by shooting as often as possible.

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Noteful•

Good shots sure. Not this bullshit that he chucks up all game. He thinks he's Steph Curry or something chucking up off balance 3s with the slightest glimpse of space.

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Kobe_Wan_Ginobili•

I can't believe he's not told to take those shots cause it keeps the defence playing him very tightly to open space for others. There's just no way coaches wouldn't have told patty to stop taking them if they didn't want them, I doubt patty even wants to take them

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fatguyoncomp•

For the purpose of spacing, yes. We need defenders to run at Patty like they did last year and before. Because he has to be the main ball handler this year, I think he is over thinking. Instead of taking the solid 3pt shot, he dribbles looking for the better pass. Which is the Spur way, but it's not really what we need Patty to do. We need defenders to chase him off ball and stick to him, so the double on LA has to come from someone else. I've noticed defenders this year are giving Patty slack because he isn't shooting the 3 right away, but instead dribbling. I think his shooting has gone done because he's thinking about what he should do, whereas in the past it was an automatic shot.

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Gunz86•

or maybe it's because he got paid and "there's no pressure to perform"? Those are his words

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Kobe_Wan_Ginobili•

Yes, he lead the team in true shooting percentage until last game when Davis overtook him.

But more shooting will be easier for him when he's not playing true pg

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Rasputinov•

first we need better attempts at three. We don't get good shots there. If we get that - give it to Danny and Mills. Both need the rhythm, they are important. When the main guys get heavily shot down, that's who you gonna rely on to make shots. Mills is shooting close to 40% from 3, Danny is at 37%, if they can keep that up (or improve a little looking at Danny), then that's really all you need.

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Gunz86•

to get them that you need somebody who can get to the rim so the help defender commits and the 3-point shooter gets open. The only player on this roster who can do that consistently is Kawhi. Sometimes Tony if he turns the clock back

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Rasputinov•

Well, you also have LA who is often being double teamed from the weak side, but we paly very poorly off of that. We don't realize the DT soon enough and our passing after is more often than not not creating good shots - which is really bad, cause you have one guy open due to the DT.

Kawhi will help, sure, force the D to collapse, but we gotta be able to do this out of the DT - only that way can we establish LA in the post and force teams to either give up attempts at threes and take away the post or play 1v1 against LA. Right now they can take away the post w/o punishment. That's hurting.

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Gunz86•

no please not. He can't make shots consistently

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