Zach Lavine is shooting 4/25 (16%) on clutch 3’s this season… the worst % in the NBA by far for players with at least that many attempts. Can Zach ever elevate to be that stone cold clutch killer?
February 18, 2023
Zach Lavine is shooting 4/25 (16%) on clutch 3’s this season… the worst % in the NBA by far for players with at least that many attempts. Can Zach ever elevate to be that stone cold clutch killer?
37 comments
Short answer: No
Long Answer: Not with his shot selection, sloppy decision making, and just overall low basketball iq.
Unfortunately, Zach’s Brain goes to mush in crunch time 🤷🏽♂️
Someone prove me wrong!
No. No he can not.
Very Good Player. Just not a closer or leader.
he forces every shot and he never lets the game come to him. I’ve never seen a player as quick as him be so ineffective at going by a guy. He gets stood up on half his drives because he doesn’t even pay attention to his defender.
The same is true with all of his threes. Force them without paying attention to defense. Painful stuff.
One of the many reasons the assets we get in return for zach are far more valuable than zach is on this roster.
We are in season 6, i think at this point we know that Zach is not a closer, which is one of the reasons why the Derozan/Lavine combo worked really well last season before the injury. Give him the ball and he will score 30 in the first three quarters, just make sure you have a go-to guy next to him for the last quarter.
43mil per year for 5 more years
I didn’t even notice the bad 3s. I was so focused on the constant the driving-into-3-defenders-in-the-paint play that he loves running in the 4th quarter
Ben Gordon was a better Bull
“Clutch” performance is almost entirely random, if he gets enough shots he’ll revert to his overall average.
It wouldn’t be so bad if he wasn’t straight cheeks in closing minutes in general, let alone clutch threes. Refs won’t give him the friendly rim running foul he’s been getting this season in the last 5 minutes of games. It leads to him playing hero ball. Even after great games, such as the Pacers game… That 3 towards the end was as Denzel as it gets.
Trade this man
Max Lavine
At age 27? I don’t know any players who became clutch shooters 9 years into their career
I hate how he ISO 3s. We need to run more plays for him. I swear I’ve never seen him miss a catch and shoot 3 coming off a screen. I’m talking about the traditional catch and shoot plays like we use to run for McDermott or Korver
Zach’s ceiling is Klay Thompson at best. As a catch and shoot 3pt shooter he’s money. So many of those clutch moments he’s trying to bounce and dribble around and hero up some ridiculous shot. If he could do the klay thing where he rolls around a screen or two and plays off ball to set up his 3’s he’d be good.
Unfortunately Zach nowhere near where klay is defensively so I guess it’s all moot
Being “clutch” isn’t real. It’s just another shot.. dude has just been struggling shooting all year, that’s the issue.
No.
No he’s not him
The tank for wemby has commenced
glad we paid him tho……
No
If his shots ever came in the flow of offense or through a design, he’d be better in crunch time. Instead he forces tough looks. Not surprised the % is abysmal, the quality of shots are too.
He definitely can. The problem is the quality of shots he ends up taking down the stretch. But that’s the Bulls offense as a whole in crunch time. The ball stops moving and turns into iso ball and bad possessions.
Love the short one word replies on here lol. Swear Reddit is turning into Twitter or YouTube comments.
No
No.
This is always tough because I can’t help but think about the insane progress Zach has made since he came to Chicago. On those bad teams, Zach was playing some damn good hero ball. I don’t have the clutch numbers from those bad years but it definitely felt like he was thinking a lot less and just reacting. That feels like the overall issue with Zach he’s just pressing too damn much.
Guys like Zach with immense physical talents just gotta let go and empty their brains sometimes and just play. Which is why I feel like ultimately it’s been the coaching and leadership around the team that has failed Zach more so.
The problem isn’t Zach being the guy, the problem is they have to stop asking him to be.
I think people put too much stock in intangible things like the “clutch gene”. He doesn’t hit shots late because everyone knows he’s going to be the one taking them and he struggles to shoot over his defender. It’s not because he has some magical mental block that sucks out all his talent when the clock strikes 2 minutes in the 4th. It’s just easy to stop a guy who is the sole offensive weapon they have.
Wait for the village to roast this as he is the second coming of MJ. His basketball iq dwindles as it gets late into the game. He’s not clutch. He’s a good average starter in the nba. This team needs more. He’s reached his peak as far as talent goes.
Zach has the athleticism and skill set to be really good overall but he doesn’t have that championship mindset or winners mindset at all I don’t think Zach lavine believes Zach Lavine is a top
To put it simply he does not have that dog in him.
No, dudes too busy yelling at refs for phantom fouls
no.
No
I don’t think he’ll ever be a clutch specialist but I also want to see what it might look like if in clutch time we ran some action for him off ball to get catch and shoot opportunities instead of having him just iso. We’ve seen enough to know that usually doesn’t work, and we know he’s an elite catch and shoot guy. May as well try to put him in the best position to succeed
37 comments
Short answer: No
Long Answer: Not with his shot selection, sloppy decision making, and just overall low basketball iq.
Unfortunately, Zach’s Brain goes to mush in crunch time 🤷🏽♂️
Someone prove me wrong!
No. No he can not.
Very Good Player. Just not a closer or leader.
he forces every shot and he never lets the game come to him. I’ve never seen a player as quick as him be so ineffective at going by a guy. He gets stood up on half his drives because he doesn’t even pay attention to his defender.
The same is true with all of his threes. Force them without paying attention to defense. Painful stuff.
One of the many reasons the assets we get in return for zach are far more valuable than zach is on this roster.
We are in season 6, i think at this point we know that Zach is not a closer, which is one of the reasons why the Derozan/Lavine combo worked really well last season before the injury. Give him the ball and he will score 30 in the first three quarters, just make sure you have a go-to guy next to him for the last quarter.
43mil per year for 5 more years
I didn’t even notice the bad 3s. I was so focused on the constant the driving-into-3-defenders-in-the-paint play that he loves running in the 4th quarter
Ben Gordon was a better Bull
“Clutch” performance is almost entirely random, if he gets enough shots he’ll revert to his overall average.
It wouldn’t be so bad if he wasn’t straight cheeks in closing minutes in general, let alone clutch threes. Refs won’t give him the friendly rim running foul he’s been getting this season in the last 5 minutes of games. It leads to him playing hero ball. Even after great games, such as the Pacers game… That 3 towards the end was as Denzel as it gets.
Trade this man
Max Lavine
At age 27? I don’t know any players who became clutch shooters 9 years into their career
I hate how he ISO 3s. We need to run more plays for him. I swear I’ve never seen him miss a catch and shoot 3 coming off a screen. I’m talking about the traditional catch and shoot plays like we use to run for McDermott or Korver
Zach’s ceiling is Klay Thompson at best. As a catch and shoot 3pt shooter he’s money. So many of those clutch moments he’s trying to bounce and dribble around and hero up some ridiculous shot. If he could do the klay thing where he rolls around a screen or two and plays off ball to set up his 3’s he’d be good.
Unfortunately Zach nowhere near where klay is defensively so I guess it’s all moot
Being “clutch” isn’t real. It’s just another shot.. dude has just been struggling shooting all year, that’s the issue.
No.
No he’s not him
The tank for wemby has commenced
glad we paid him tho……
No
If his shots ever came in the flow of offense or through a design, he’d be better in crunch time. Instead he forces tough looks. Not surprised the % is abysmal, the quality of shots are too.
He definitely can. The problem is the quality of shots he ends up taking down the stretch. But that’s the Bulls offense as a whole in crunch time. The ball stops moving and turns into iso ball and bad possessions.
Love the short one word replies on here lol. Swear Reddit is turning into Twitter or YouTube comments.
No
No.
This is always tough because I can’t help but think about the insane progress Zach has made since he came to Chicago. On those bad teams, Zach was playing some damn good hero ball. I don’t have the clutch numbers from those bad years but it definitely felt like he was thinking a lot less and just reacting. That feels like the overall issue with Zach he’s just pressing too damn much.
Guys like Zach with immense physical talents just gotta let go and empty their brains sometimes and just play. Which is why I feel like ultimately it’s been the coaching and leadership around the team that has failed Zach more so.
The problem isn’t Zach being the guy, the problem is they have to stop asking him to be.
I think people put too much stock in intangible things like the “clutch gene”. He doesn’t hit shots late because everyone knows he’s going to be the one taking them and he struggles to shoot over his defender. It’s not because he has some magical mental block that sucks out all his talent when the clock strikes 2 minutes in the 4th. It’s just easy to stop a guy who is the sole offensive weapon they have.
Wait for the village to roast this as he is the second coming of MJ. His basketball iq dwindles as it gets late into the game. He’s not clutch. He’s a good average starter in the nba. This team needs more. He’s reached his peak as far as talent goes.
Zach has the athleticism and skill set to be really good overall but he doesn’t have that championship mindset or winners mindset at all I don’t think Zach lavine believes Zach Lavine is a top
To put it simply he does not have that dog in him.
No, dudes too busy yelling at refs for phantom fouls
no.
No
I don’t think he’ll ever be a clutch specialist but I also want to see what it might look like if in clutch time we ran some action for him off ball to get catch and shoot opportunities instead of having him just iso. We’ve seen enough to know that usually doesn’t work, and we know he’s an elite catch and shoot guy. May as well try to put him in the best position to succeed
No
No dawg in him since he got paid. #TankforWemby
Damn that boy is good