CV hacking up bad 3's at the end of games

[Psolo12]

he's taken shots at the end of the game his entire career and never hits them. why would you want him taking those shots when he's proven he can't make them under pressure?

 

[ZenConn]

He’s receiving the ball at the end of shot clock with a lot of guys standing around not wanting the ball.

^^^^ This. We're running the weave for a good 10-15 seconds trying to find a way to the basket because the defense is packing it inside since we can't shoot. And then we give it back to Vital 30 feet from the basket hoping he does something.

 

[Huskybass]

Highest 3 point shooting % ?
It's 30.8% for Vital on the season. You can't even post the truth and you are calling someone else an idiot. Amazing.

 

[Huskybass]

Polley shot over 40% on threes.

 

[Huskybass]

Would you like to stop making crap up? Just because a guy got injured his stats don't count?

30.8% on threes is not good. Even you should be able to see that.

 

[Kathy]

Would you like to stop making crap up? Just because a guy got injured his stats don't count?

30.8% on threes is not good. Even you should be able to see that.

Better than any of the 'healthy' players- does that help?

 

[BNich]

Would you like to stop making crap up? Just because a guy got injured his stats don't count?

30.8% on threes is not good. Even you should be able to see that.

I think you've lost sight of the current conversation at hand. I think we can all clearly look at stats and see Polley's 3P% but he isn't available.

 

[Huskybass]

You've admitted that Vital's three-point percentage is awful yet you still want him taking a three-point shot at the end of the game. Perfect.

 

[Huskybass]

Better than any of the 'healthy' players- does that help?

Have you gotten permission from all the players to consider them healthy?

 

[HuskyHawk]

Would you like to stop making crap up? Just because a guy got injured his stats don't count?

30.8% on threes is not good. Even you should be able to see that.

He was the best outside shooter we had available. You know this. He shot 40% last year. Polley is not available so is irrelevant.

It's becoming truly annoying the way people focus on one or two plays late in a game, and not the other opportunities we had to put the game away well before that. Vital was far from our biggest problem against Memphis.

 

[PAHusky]

You guys ever play pickup basketball and everyone on the team is pretty good and plays defense pretty well and rebounds ok but it's a team full of Robins and no Batman on offense? You score a few buckets on fast breaks and a lucky shot here or there but when the score gets close to 11 everyone plays hot potato until someone drives into too much traffic or jacks up a contested jumper?

That's this year's team. Pretty decent defensively, but too many Robins and no Batman (or, more specifically, no one old enough to assume the mantle of the dark knight yet). It's head against the wall infuriating but it is what it is. Vital isn't great and I'm not a huge fan of his but he and AG look worse than they really are because they're forced to attempt something, anything at the end of the shot clock and they just can't.

 

[Psolo12]

It doesn't warrant a response or you can't think of one? Vital and Gilbert have proven time and again they can't make the big shot. You refuting this point makes you seem like an absolute moron.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

It doesn't warrant a response or you can't think of one? Vital and Gilbert have proven time and again they can't make the big shot. You refuting this point makes you seem like an absolute moron.

Tell us more about the APR theory we saw confirmed by Gilbert's role in the Memphis game.

 

[Psolo12]

Tell us more about the APR theory we saw confirmed by Gilbert's role in the Memphis game.

I have absolutely no inside knowledge and have never claimed to. I did not endorse that theory in any way. I was explaining what Chief was getting at to someone who didn't understand what he was saying.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

You've admitted that Vital's three-point percentage is awful yet you still want him taking a three-point shot at the end of the game. Perfect.

You should know when you've been spanked.

 

[Shine33]

What are you even going to post about when Vital is gone next year and we have better players?

You will have no one to defend next year bc we won’t have anyone jacking up bad 3’s at the end of the games and we won’t be losing pretty much every single game.

 

[ctchamps]

It doesn't warrant a response or you can't think of one? Vital and Gilbert have proven time and again they can't make the big shot. You refuting this point makes you seem like an absolute moron.

You're both correct. Vital and Gilbert are not clutch in tight situations. Unfortunately no one else has stepped up either. It was particularly obvious in this game. So you have to play the percentages in spite of the bad options. Dave never advocated for Vital taking end of game shots. He supported the choice given the circumstances.

 

[ctchamps]

What are you even going to post about when Vital is gone next year and we have better players?

You will have no one to defend next year bc we won’t have anyone jacking up bad 3’s at the end of the games and we won’t be losing pretty much every single game.

He'll support someone else and you and several other posters will dump on someone else if the team underperforms.

 

[OldManDoug]

One of the best twitter posts I've seen about CV was something like:

"Christian Vital time" - Christian Vital