Why doesn't Josh Hart shoot the ball?

[wizenheimer]

well, using some 'it-doesn't-really-work-that-way' mathematical equations, what we can say, based upon this season, is that 4 players make game winning shots and do so at the following rates:

Ant has a game-winner every 146 shots
Grant has a game-winner every 123 shots
Dame has a game-winner every 109 shots
Hart has a game-winner every 66 shots

but I can't determine if that means Hart doesn't shoot enough, should shoot less, or if he's in the Goldilocks Zone

 

[SIeepwalker]

3:50 "I'm on him a lot of time about passing up shots"

 

[Haakzilla]

"... the Basketball Gods, as they say, are on your side when you play the game the way (Josh Hart) does." -- Damian Lillard

 

[OneSport3]

Josh was 2nd in the league from corner 3s last season at 57%. He should emulate PJ Tucker.

 

[MickZagger]

Josh was 2nd in the league from corner 3s last season at 57%. He should emulate PJ Tucker.

Or, Bruce Bowen who I think was the original D and corner 3 guy.

 

[Pinwheel1]

https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2022/11/josh-hart-at-the-heart-of-trail-blazers-hot-start.html

Hart, 27, said he recognizes that on a team with three prominent scorers such as Lillard (29.0 points per game), Anfernee Simons (22.4) and Jerami Grant (18.4), he must accept a different role to help the team.

“When you want to win, you’ve got to sacrifice,” Hart said. “I would love to be out there shooting 10, 12, 13 shots per game, and doing stuff like that. But at the end of the day, if you want to win, guys are going to have to sacrifice. Guys have to play different roles to help the team.”

 

[Rastapopoulos]

 

[Pinwheel1]

I think when everyone is healthy, Hart just needs to focus on attacking the rim (and he does that well)
and shooting 3's from the corner. (which I believe he did extremely well last year) He does so many other things that scoring when we have a full squad healthy is not needed. But he does need about 8-10 shots a game.

 

[B-Roy]

Josh Hart please shoot. Chauncey please put the ball in Josh's hands and let him create.

 

[PCmor7]

Only things I can think is that he expends so much energy on defense and the boards as an undersized 3 that he basically recharges by doing nothing on the offensive end, he's specifically been told to only take certain shots under certain circumstances, or he thinks he's so inferior offensively to Dame, Ant, Grant and Nurk that he'd rather see them take tough shots than himself take easy ones.

Of course, this doesn't explain deferring to Justise ....

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Josh was 2nd in the league from corner 3s last season at 57%. He should emulate PJ Tucker.

I wonder if he feels that on this team he needs to get back first on defense and so he worries about being in that corner spot?

 

[Cugel]

you will see I was ordered to stop asking for Hart to shoot by "experts".