Clay returns to the second game, and Poole is lost in his own world. Throughout the game, Poole shot 3-of-11 and 1-of-6 from three-point range, scoring 12 points with extremely low efficiency, plus-minus -17 and Klay as opposed.
In the crucial fourth quarter, Poole played strangely, with strange shooting choices and a single offensive style.
In the fourth quarter of the single quarter, Poole scored 4 points on 1 of 5 shots, and in the 7 minutes of the game, there were almost only two offensive methods when indulging in single heads, the right side and the left side of the attack were connected and retreated, and the results of many attempts were not good.
This ball, the top of the arc pulled away the misplaced singles Jalen Jr., Poole accelerated to the right, but was blocked when breaking through, and The confrontation of Jalen Jr. made Poole lose his center of gravity, so Poole had to force the ball outward to avoid mistakes. The forced pass naturally failed to reach the correct position, but only to throw it outward to avoid mistakes, and Iguodala trotted all the way to get Poole's pass.
This ball, again the top of the arc to pull open a one-on-one single pick, this time facing Morant, still dribbling to the right crotch, deliberately paused for a moment and then accelerated the breakthrough, the result failed to shake off Morant, had to stop the ball and forced a throw, encountered a cover.
This is the usual routine of Poole to break through on the right side, even as a fan, after a little observation, you can easily get the law: holding the ball at the top of the arc, dribbling under the crotch, after dribbling to the right crotch, he will hesitate for a moment to confuse the opponent, and then accelerate the breakthrough, trying to pass the defense with absolute speed.
Purr's breakthrough on the left: dribbling under the crotch, accelerating the breakthrough, making an emergency stop and retreating. In short, it's all difficult shots.
Almost the same moves, except that sometimes difficult shots are chosen, and sometimes passes are chosen. And these passes, how big the meaning is, it looks like a shot that was chosen without shooting space.
Four or five GIFs and a match aren't convincing enough, but the numbers do.
As shown on the NBA's official website above, Poole has averaged 2.4 shots per game with the ball and hit 0.7 shots, with a shooting rate of only 29.5%, accounting for 17.5%; receiving three-point shots per game, hitting 1.8 balls, shooting 35.8%, accounting for 37.1%.
Dribbling data shows that the fewer Poole dribbles, the higher the three-point shooting rate. Among them, the proportion of three-point shots with 0 dribbles is the largest (37.8%), and the shooting rate is also the highest (35.7%).
Poole's three-point shooting percentage against both close-up defense and close-quarters defense is less than 30%, the three-point shooting rate in the open position is 33.7%, and the three-point shooting rate in the big open position is 35.6%.
In summary, Poole should improve his shooting choices, trying to choose as few as possible to dribble and shoot difficult three-pointers, unless forced to do so. Trying to improve the grasp of receiving three points is The basic set of Poole, from the above data, in fact, Poole's empty three-point shooting rate is not very high.
Like this.
And such a shot is the right shot choice in the game, running out of the tactical vacancy to shoot three points or waiting for his teammates to attract the defense and then shooting the empty three-pointer.
Of course, one game doesn't say much, and so does the stats.
How you look at Poole now depends on what you expect from Poole. If it is simply a rotational shooter positioning, then obviously he has done it, after all, in the past 6 games, Poole has received the ball 18 three-point shots, hit 8 goals, shooting 44.4%, not bad at all; if there is still some expectation for Poole, then he needs to improve too much, in the past 6 games Poole has held the ball and shot 11 of 1 from three-point shooting, shooting only 11.1%.
After Clay returned, Poole's tactical position was very different from his playing time, and Poole needed time to re-adapt to his new role and adjust his shooting choices.
If Poole is moving in the direction of Clarkson, then these difficult retreat steps should still be shot, and if Poole is aiming at the starting guard or even the All-Star, then What Poole needs to pay attention to is to improve the shooting choice and the timing of the stop pass.