“Joel had to make tough shots. Just couldn’t get anything going and that’s something that we have to correct. A lot of 1-for-’s, I’m looking at our box score, other than James, we had a lot of 2-for-6’s, 2-for-8’s, 0-for-4, 0-for-3, 1-for-3, and then the guy that made the big shots for us was Tuck,” Rivers said.
Then the head coach gave a hat tip to his point guard for making a clutch suggestion.
“And that was a very great observation by James,” Rivers continued. “[James] said, ‘hey, let’s put Tuck in the corner, and let’s put Tobias in the dunker spot.’ And it really came through for us,” Rivers explained. “He’s been in big moments. He’s gonna shoot it. You know, they were gonna help off of him, we said in the timeout, and he stepped up and made ‘em.”
The problem there is that P.J. isn’t exactly a big…well…dunker threat these days, and often winds up kicking it back out, or feeling forced to loft hot potato floaters as the shot clock winds down.
Harris, recently ill, had been struggling from distance, and is taller than Tucker. Harris measures in at 6-foot-7. Tucker is just 6-5.
Harris has shot 71 percent between 0-3 feet from the rim, while Tucker is just 47.4 percent within the same pointblank range.
So, who should be in the corner more often? Here’s a fun one for you stat heads. Both P.J. Tucker and Tobias Harris are an identical 54 out of 134 from corners this year, good for 40.3 percent each.
“I felt it was just better for our team,” Harden said. “And P.J. is an excellent three-point corner shooter. Joel had it rolling all night to where he [could] pick and choose if he wanted to pass to myself or P.J., he made the right decisions, P.J. knocked three threes down. Joel made some great passes tonight.”
“I know him like the back of my hand,” the 2018 MVP said. “There’s a lot of frustration as far as where he needs to be on the floor. And we’re still trying to work that out, but tonight was great, you gotta put him in the corner, ‘cause like I said he’s an unbelievable corner three-point shooter, he’s been that way his whole career.”
“Hopefully this game can build his confidence and we can keep going from there,” Harden said.
ihorsey10
Please more of this. Has there been an instance where we’ve heard of an in game wrinkle that came from Doc?
secretlypooping
There’s just zero reason to have Tobias out there if he’s put in the dunkers spot on offense. He isn’t exactly a vertical threat and he sucks at rebounding.
At that point just put McDaniels in the game.
“Tell a friend to tell a friend I’ve been relegated to the dunkers spot”
lardbiscuits
Imagine getting put in the dunkers spot and replacing PJ Tucker who literally doesn’t shoot.
Kevovo
So if Harden is playing 40 minutes a night and coaching, what is Glenn Rivers’ role?
adamantpony
As someone who doesn’t really understand the xs and os of basketball, is there any good reason to even have a dunker spot? Because first Simmons and now Harris, it just sounds like where we hide useless players.
StaringAtMyHugeBulge
McDaniels is a much better starting 4 than Tobias. He is an actual lob threat, he can hit corner 3’s and get Orebs.
At this point the only reason Tobias has the spot is simply because he gets paid more.
PHLANYC
🤦neither one of those guys should be in the dunkers spot, WTF. Fire Glenn. Beard player coach.
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“Joel had to make tough shots. Just couldn’t get anything going and that’s something that we have to correct. A lot of 1-for-’s, I’m looking at our box score, other than James, we had a lot of 2-for-6’s, 2-for-8’s, 0-for-4, 0-for-3, 1-for-3, and then the guy that made the big shots for us was Tuck,” Rivers said.
Then the head coach gave a hat tip to his point guard for making a clutch suggestion.
“And that was a very great observation by James,” Rivers continued. “[James] said, ‘hey, let’s put Tuck in the corner, and let’s put Tobias in the dunker spot.’ And it really came through for us,” Rivers explained. “He’s been in big moments. He’s gonna shoot it. You know, they were gonna help off of him, we said in the timeout, and he stepped up and made ‘em.”
The problem there is that P.J. isn’t exactly a big…well…dunker threat these days, and often winds up kicking it back out, or feeling forced to loft hot potato floaters as the shot clock winds down.
Harris, recently ill, had been struggling from distance, and is taller than Tucker. Harris measures in at 6-foot-7. Tucker is just 6-5.
Harris has shot 71 percent between 0-3 feet from the rim, while Tucker is just 47.4 percent within the same pointblank range.
So, who should be in the corner more often? Here’s a fun one for you stat heads. Both P.J. Tucker and Tobias Harris are an identical 54 out of 134 from corners this year, good for 40.3 percent each.
“I felt it was just better for our team,” Harden said. “And P.J. is an excellent three-point corner shooter. Joel had it rolling all night to where he [could] pick and choose if he wanted to pass to myself or P.J., he made the right decisions, P.J. knocked three threes down. Joel made some great passes tonight.”
“I know him like the back of my hand,” the 2018 MVP said. “There’s a lot of frustration as far as where he needs to be on the floor. And we’re still trying to work that out, but tonight was great, you gotta put him in the corner, ‘cause like I said he’s an unbelievable corner three-point shooter, he’s been that way his whole career.”
“Hopefully this game can build his confidence and we can keep going from there,” Harden said.
Please more of this. Has there been an instance where we’ve heard of an in game wrinkle that came from Doc?
There’s just zero reason to have Tobias out there if he’s put in the dunkers spot on offense. He isn’t exactly a vertical threat and he sucks at rebounding.
At that point just put McDaniels in the game.
“Tell a friend to tell a friend I’ve been relegated to the dunkers spot”
Imagine getting put in the dunkers spot and replacing PJ Tucker who literally doesn’t shoot.
So if Harden is playing 40 minutes a night and coaching, what is Glenn Rivers’ role?
As someone who doesn’t really understand the xs and os of basketball, is there any good reason to even have a dunker spot? Because first Simmons and now Harris, it just sounds like where we hide useless players.
McDaniels is a much better starting 4 than Tobias. He is an actual lob threat, he can hit corner 3’s and get Orebs.
At this point the only reason Tobias has the spot is simply because he gets paid more.
🤦neither one of those guys should be in the dunkers spot, WTF. Fire Glenn. Beard player coach.