BNM should like this Lowe piece: he slams Brooklyn for bailing Portland out of the Crabbe contract;
"Crabbe is a good catch-and-shoot guy; he's up to 36 percent from deep after canning seven triples Wednesday in Brooklyn's latest fall-from-ahead gut-punch loss (this one against Oklahoma City).
He just doesn't do, like, anything else. When defenders run Crabbe off the arc, he takes one or two dribbles before pulling up.
He's shooting *cleans fake glasses, vomits a little* 24.7 percent on 2-point attempts. Crabbe rarely keeps the machine moving with a drive-and-kick. He averages four drives per 100 possessions -- a teensy number for a perimeter player. Only 21 percent of those drives result in a pass that leads to a shot -- well below average. (Crabbe dishes one measly dime per game.) Only 2 percent end in shooting fouls -- 265th among 276 guys who have recorded at least 20 drives, per Second Spectrum. When Crabbe does pass, he often finds someone on the other team.
He's also not a
Kyle Korver/
JJ Redick type, zig-zagging around, setting random screens, and dragging entire defenses with him.
This would be fine if Crabbe were an elite multi-positional defender. He's not. Brooklyn could have found (at least) 80 percent of Crabbe's production on a minimum contract, or something close."
Then, this about Westbrook: "on pace to be the worst high-volume 3-point shooter in league history.
You could argue this isn't a
huge problem. A 30 percent-ish 3-point attempt carries more expected value than some 2-point attempts.
But if he's going to shoot so damned many, you'd prefer he actually make more. Defenders might pay some attention to him off the ball. "
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25470903/10-things-like-including-bucks-weakness-nba
