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Some of his shots in the paint are from too far away. He needs to take one more dribble imo.
There is a pretty good article that predicts that Rose is close to breaking out of his slump. Basically, for anyone not willing to read, it says that they been tracking his shooting patterns and that he seems to be trending closer and closer to the basket on his misses. This is a big improvement from when half of his fga are from out of the paint and beyond.
He just needs to connect now, and that'll come when he gets into better shape. Someone on here mentioned that he's hit his own version of the rookie wall and he's probably right.
There's been a slight uptick on his minutes as of late. That's another adjustment that he has to make, conditioning wise.
He'll be fine.
There is a pretty good article that predicts that Rose is close to breaking out of his slump. Basically, for anyone not willing to read, it says that they been tracking his shooting patterns and that he seems to be trending closer and closer to the basket on his misses. This is a big improvement from when half of his fga are from out of the paint and beyond.
He just needs to connect now, and that'll come when he gets into better shape. Someone on here mentioned that he's hit his own version of the rookie wall and he's probably right.
There's been a slight uptick on his minutes as of late. That's another adjustment that he has to make, conditioning wise.
He'll be fine.
Derrick Rose's shooting slump continued Wednesday.
But he also continued another trend that proved he may be close to finally breaking out of it.
Rose has another forgettable performance in the Bulls' 97-77 home loss to the Utah Jazz, going 3-for-15 with seven points, two assists and three turnovers in 30 minutes. With his sixth straight woeful shooting performance, the former league MVP is now 31-for-122 since he started 5-for-6 against the New Orleans Pelicans on Dec. 27. That shooting percentage (25.4%) has hurt the Bulls some, but they've still won 13 of their last 16 games and are just 2.5 games back of the East-leading Atlanta Hawks.
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"It’s basketball. Shots aren’t going to fall, it’s just part of the game," Rose said after the loss. "When they start falling, things will change. Who knows? But I’m going to continue to shoot my shots."
Correct logic or not, Rose's shooting woes can't simply be taken at face value. All shots are not created equal. And it really can be split into two sets of three games.
Throughout Rose's struggles, Tom Thibodeau has been asked constantly about whether or not his point guard needs to change his approach. He's been asked about Rose's comments, which have almost been identical each night, that he's "going to keep shooting." The Bulls' play as a whole hadn't fallen off as Rose continued to miss shots, and up until tonight they had won four of the five games in Rose's slump.
And each time Thibodeau has responded the same, that Rose needs to 1) attack the rim 2) take smart shots and 3) affect the game if those shots aren't going down.
And while those numbers as a whole haven't improved much, the location of his attempts have.
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In his 5-for-20 shooting night against the Pacers - Game 1 of the slump - Rose attempted 14 shots from 10 feet or longer, with just six coming inside that distance. The following night against the Nets, he attempted 11 of his 15 shots from outside that distance. And when he hoisted a whopping 25 shots against the Nets on New Year's Day, nearly half (12) came from outside 10 feet.
Using that 10-foot distance as a baseline between a jump shot (outside of 10 feet) and a floater or layup (anything inside 10 feet), that three-game stretch saw Rose attempt 37 jumpers compared with just 23 floaters and layups. Put into percentages, more than 61 percent of Rose's shots came via jumpers.
But in his last three games, Rose has shown that aggressiveness Thibodeau said he needed to see. In the Bulls' five-point win over Boston, Rose attempted nine shots inside 10 feet and nine shots beyond it. Against the Rockets, he took nine shots inside 10 feet and only eight shots outside it, marking the first time in the stretch more of his attempts came at close range than from "deep."
And in Wednesday's ugly loss, Rose again attempted more shots inside 10 feet (eight) than he did outside 10 feet (seven). Put together, Rose's latest three-game stretch saw him attempt 26 floaters and layups compared with 24 jumpers. Whereas the first three games of his slump he attempted 61 percent jumpers, that number has dwindled to just 48 percent in his last three.
Entering Wednesday's contest, Rose had attempted 38.8 percent of his shots from inside 10 feet this year, easily the lowest percentage of his career. In fact, Rose's percentage of shots taken from 10 feet and in had increased each year he had been in the league, peaking with last year's small sample size (10 games) of 52.5 percent, per basketball-reference.com.
The last three games have shown that the aggressive, slashing Derrick Rose is close to returning. And it's something he indirectly alluded to after Wednesday's loss, noting that he isn't forcing things and likes the shots he's putting up, even if they've primarily been misses.
"It’s all about catching a rhythm. I’m not worried about the shots that I’m missing. It’s part of the game," he said. "I was just missing shots, shots that I normally take."
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There's no denying Rose must improve his shooting. It's no coincidence that during his rough patch, the Bulls have suffered their two lowest scoring outputs of the year (82 points against Brooklyn; 77 against Utah) and really have looked out of sorts offensively. His decision to shoot or pass after he's taken his man off the dribble must be the correct one and work within what the other four players on the floor are doing; in the last six games the Bulls have been outscored by 13 points, and Rose's +/- is just that, -13. He needs to be a positive on the floor, and simply taking shots at the rim won't be a cure-all.
But the additional shots at the rim have also meant a higher shooting percentage; in this first three games of his slump, he shot 34.8 percent at the rim; in his last three, he's shot 38.5 percent at the rim. It's not an astronomical jump, but more attempts AND a higher percentage is a good equation for Rose.
He's also attempting more free throws (10 in the last three games vs. 8 in the first three), taking fewer 3-pointers (9 in the last three games vs. 15 in the first three) and seems to be coming around defensively, all of which is part of the process Thibodeau says will play itself over the course of the entire season.
"I think he’s making steady progress. He hasn’t shot the ball well but he’s run the team very well. And so you have to understand, he’s been out for two-and-a-half years. When you get away from that competition for two-and-a-half years it doesn’t come back in a week," Thibodeau said.
"And that’s something you have to compete in practice, you have to compete getting yourself ready and then you have to keep going. And there’s going to be some bumps in the road, and as long as he keeps stringing games together he’ll figure it out."
The numbers suggest he's getting there.