Jump shots because of a low post game are fine.
Open jump-shots are fine, does not matter how you get them. The Suns get them because of speed, not true low-post game.
At the end of the day - Chuck's stuff about "jump shooting team" is just nonsense. The issue is
"easy shots" - jump or otherwise does not matter. We shot less jump-shots than the Cavs last year - and their bigs last year were not really low-post bigs as well. Big Z is a slower version of LMA in most of his shot attempts - but no-one harped on them being a jump-shooting team. Of course, it helps that you have a SF that weights like a freight train and can go hard to the rim. The "hard shots" that our guys took are "easy" when you have a 270lbs guy with a handle barreling into the defense.
The fact is that this year, we shoot more jump shots and less close shots. I think that reducing Roy's touches is the main reason for this. It is hard for him to go to the rim as often as he did last year - when he does not initiate the offense.
I am not complaining - having low-post shots by our bigs (and by bigs I mean Oden) is a great thing - but if you look at the details - we are more of a jump-shooting team this year than we were last year.
It is not a surprise that our offensive efficiency is not as good as it was last year.
Brandon, in the new offensive scheme, takes 79% of his attempts as jump-shots, last year he took only 66%
We are, believe it or not, not using Roy as efficiently this year as we should.
