007
All American
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 6,218
- Like
- 16,948
This is arbitrary and probably too quick and dirty to be worth much, but Rak has taken 5 or more shots only 13 times this season and is averaging 4.6 shot attempts per game. That means that even if he's perfect from the floor he's not hitting double figures. The most shots he's ever taken in a game for us is 9.
Know how many shot attempts per game Cooney averages? 4.5. Think about that for a second in relation to how many shot attempts Rak gets.
Rak's a big guy. He's not going to create off the dribble or generate offense for himself short of grabbing an offensive rebound and trying to stick a shot up. His guards need to make the game easy for him. They don't. He's better than he's been given the chance to show he is.
Magic Johnson used to say that if Kareem didn't see the ball early he'd pick up a couple of cheap fouls because his teammates were telling him they didn't need him that night. I'd like our guards to show Rak that they need him.
I respect the point you are trying to make, Otto.
I would strongly suspect that if Rak showed some semblance of being an inside scoring option in practice, JB would make it a point to get him the ball during the games. I think it is misguided to assume that Rak is not producing because the guards are choosing not to give him the ball.