How do you stop "jumpermania"?

[Mozart]

Jumpermania II

So what is it going to take to stop the Kings from going into the dreaded jumpermania habit that it has gotten into in far too many games, not only this year, but last year as well?


Muss made the jumpermania habit worse, it seems.


Jacking up shots just ain't gonna do it and the Kings have done it for years. It may be ok when the players have hot hands, but it sure ain't ok when the shooting is cold, especially on the road games, an area where the Kings have sucked, lately.


In the latest Bee article that describes how the team is trying to get it together on the road, the jumpermania is directly discussed by the teammates and Coach T, so, at least, the team is clearly aware of it.


Since the Kings have not been able to practice on account of the snow back east, perhaps they'd have a game plan of focusing on driving into the paint and focusing on dunks, short shots and layups (KT excepted!). The game will be won/lost in the paint, I would think.


And don't eat any poison oak salads while you watch the game.

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[CruzDude]

Well the Kings biggest driver in the league is out for a month or so. When Kevin got his 15 or so FT's the others seemed to get more FT as well. Salmons is doing OK but Cisco and RonRon need to make up some of that difference. Cisco at times seems to get a bunch of driving shots blocked and may make him a bit leary without some encouragement. Beno seems to have slacked off as well but can drive with the best of them if there are some plays set up for him to drive and finish or kick out.

 

[Bricklayer]

Worrying about this after the celtics loss is abit misplaced -- the Cs defense late in that game was simply incredible, and they just took the lane away from us. Completely shut it down. Salmons in particular was just thrown completely off as he would beat his man as normal, and then just run into a wall of defenders 8 feet from the hoop. They made us jumpshooters, and we crumbled.

I think our best/only answer at this point in that situation is really Ron in the post, in the hopes that as the defense collapses on him he can create a shot for somebody else. A secondary thought might be to draw Brad up top (well, doesn't take much drawing) and try to tun some Princeton with the backcuts and whatnot. What clearly will NOT work is depending on our less than overwhelming talent to create driving lanes on their own off the dribble.

 

[Oscar]

In his playing days, Reggie never passed up on a jumper when a layup would have been better. Maybe his assistant coaches should step up and make the case for more drives.

 

[Bricklayer]

In his playing days, Reggie never passed up on a jumper when a layup would have been better. Maybe his assistant coaches should step up and make the case for more drives.

Somehow I don't think you are going to learn to pass on those jumpers from Chuck Person either.

 

[dude12]

FWIW....Kings are tied for 5th with the most FTA's per game, while they are ranked 24th in 3 point attempts. It appears that they take the ball to the hoop frequently.

 

[Oscar]

FWIW....Kings are tied for 5th with the most FTA's per game, while they are ranked 24th in 3 point attempts. It appears that they take the ball to the hoop frequently.

Not necessarily. It could also mean that they're talking jumpshots closer in and still passing on driving.

 

[Bricklayer]

FWIW....Kings are tied for 5th with the most FTA's per game, while they are ranked 24th in 3 point attempts. It appears that they take the ball to the hoop frequently.

Its also an indicator that we flop around like dead fish out there, although less so with Kevin injured.

But I'd agree with the general sentiment -- I don't think we are a particularly bad team about settling for the jumper at all this year. Beno, Kevin, Salmons and Ron all go inside frequently, and of those players the only one who does not have a good mix is Salmons, and he favors the drive over the jumper.

What we are is a team without any real post players outside of our SF. Our center IS a jump shooter (well...you can mostly drop the "jump" from that). Our PF a garbageman with a jump shot. So our perimeter guys have to do most of the inside scoring, and at times are going to get jumper happy, especially when the other team starts packing it back in to take away the drive.

 

[Warhawk]

What we are is a team without any real post players outside of our SF. Our center IS a jump shooter (well...you can mostly drop the "jump" from that). OUR PF a garbageman with a jump shot. So our perimeter guys have to do most of the inside scoring, and at times are going to get jumper happy, especially when the other team starts packing it back in to take away the drive.

Nice.

 

[dude12]

Not necessarily. It could also mean that they're talking jumpshots closer in and still passing on driving.

Hard to get to the 5th spot in Free throw attempts without penetrating. We're not getting fouled on jumpshots all the time.

 

[Futuristic]

We've all complained about it and in the Warriors game it seemed to become painfully obvious, so much so that Reggie Theus was quoted in several post-game interviews as saying he kept urging the players to drive inside, draw the fouls and get to the line, but that they kept taking the outside jumpers...

We used to blame Adelman for not stressing aggression enough but I think it's becoming fairly obvious that, for whatever reason, the player collective seems to get it into their heads that they are all fantastic perimeter shooters and need not go inside unless there's no waiting and a lighted express lane. (Remind me later to talk about the new floor lights in Arco that might be EXACTLY that! )

So, what can Theus and the coaching staff do? Petrie has given them, for the most part, players who can at least occasionally hit the jumpers but we've got the images fresh in our mind of just how disastrous that can be, especially when you've got an opponent on the ropes with THREE key players in drastic foul trouble and yet your team can't buy a foul to remove any of them.

Is this something we're just cursed to see on the floor of Arco, regardless of who the players or coaches are?

Ideally, taking the ball to the hoop would be a no-brainer. But so is defense. You can preach as much as you want but it also takes a certain mentality of players to be able to take the ball to the basket. Plus, players don't really want to get floored and that's what happens when they drive.