Chris Finch
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Yeah, I think there's, of course, I believe in the long too. It's part of the game for sure. I think there's definitely a time and a place to use it. You know, when we talk about shot selection with our guys, we have built in kind of that shot in certain contexts. What I would say is that, like, you know, you got to make a lot of them to be really good.
Yeah, I think there's, of course, I believe in the long too. It's part of the game for sure. I think there's definitely a time and a place to use it. You know, when we talk about shot selection with our guys, we have built in kind of that shot in certain contexts. What I would say is that, like, you know, you got to make a lot of them to be really good.
And with the number of threes that are shot in the league right now, it's just hard to keep pace sometimes if you're just going to live with the twos, which a lot of teams are willing to do defensively. So I always tell our guys, you know, when it comes to hard shots or whatever, like, You can make that shot. No one's denying that you can't. It might be at 45%, which is pretty good.
And with the number of threes that are shot in the league right now, it's just hard to keep pace sometimes if you're just going to live with the twos, which a lot of teams are willing to do defensively. So I always tell our guys, you know, when it comes to hard shots or whatever, like, You can make that shot. No one's denying that you can't. It might be at 45%, which is pretty good.
And with the number of threes that are shot in the league right now, it's just hard to keep pace sometimes if you're just going to live with the twos, which a lot of teams are willing to do defensively. So I always tell our guys, you know, when it comes to hard shots or whatever, like, You can make that shot. No one's denying that you can't. It might be at 45%, which is pretty good.
It might be at 50%, which is great, but most likely it's in the low 40s. It's just really hard to make a living on that shot. You just got to be so, so good at it and such high volume just to counter what's going on at the other end of the floor more than anything else.
It might be at 50%, which is great, but most likely it's in the low 40s. It's just really hard to make a living on that shot. You just got to be so, so good at it and such high volume just to counter what's going on at the other end of the floor more than anything else.
It might be at 50%, which is great, but most likely it's in the low 40s. It's just really hard to make a living on that shot. You just got to be so, so good at it and such high volume just to counter what's going on at the other end of the floor more than anything else.
I mean, it's more of a feel thing. It's a look thing. You can tell. Since I got here, which was in the midst of Ant's rookie year, You know, you could tell I remember his first 40 point game, which was against Phoenix shortly after the All-Star break. It was kind of an awakening for him.
I mean, it's more of a feel thing. It's a look thing. You can tell. Since I got here, which was in the midst of Ant's rookie year, You know, you could tell I remember his first 40 point game, which was against Phoenix shortly after the All-Star break. It was kind of an awakening for him.
I mean, it's more of a feel thing. It's a look thing. You can tell. Since I got here, which was in the midst of Ant's rookie year, You know, you could tell I remember his first 40 point game, which was against Phoenix shortly after the All-Star break. It was kind of an awakening for him.
he has incredible confidence in himself and his ability to to to go out and do his thing always has even before he had figured out how to do it largely but once he started to kind of figure it out you know he's he's always had this incredible sense for the moment within a game of like knowing when to take over and it could be defensively too and then he gets on these mini runs and he could turn a quarter or turn a game around
he has incredible confidence in himself and his ability to to to go out and do his thing always has even before he had figured out how to do it largely but once he started to kind of figure it out you know he's he's always had this incredible sense for the moment within a game of like knowing when to take over and it could be defensively too and then he gets on these mini runs and he could turn a quarter or turn a game around
he has incredible confidence in himself and his ability to to to go out and do his thing always has even before he had figured out how to do it largely but once he started to kind of figure it out you know he's he's always had this incredible sense for the moment within a game of like knowing when to take over and it could be defensively too and then he gets on these mini runs and he could turn a quarter or turn a game around
in a heartbeat and it's it's pretty cool to watch you you know kind of know when it's coming because you can feel it he makes a few momentum plays for himself or his teammates and uh that's one of the things i think you know he's learned a lot in those in these few early years he's you know he's way more thinking the game than he had early on um i do think
in a heartbeat and it's it's pretty cool to watch you you know kind of know when it's coming because you can feel it he makes a few momentum plays for himself or his teammates and uh that's one of the things i think you know he's learned a lot in those in these few early years he's you know he's way more thinking the game than he had early on um i do think
in a heartbeat and it's it's pretty cool to watch you you know kind of know when it's coming because you can feel it he makes a few momentum plays for himself or his teammates and uh that's one of the things i think you know he's learned a lot in those in these few early years he's you know he's way more thinking the game than he had early on um i do think
One thing that I've always let him do is I've coached him hard. We've held him accountable, coached him hard, but we give him an incredible amount of freedom to figure it out. And I think that was the only way he was going to learn. You know, if he went into a super โ
One thing that I've always let him do is I've coached him hard. We've held him accountable, coached him hard, but we give him an incredible amount of freedom to figure it out. And I think that was the only way he was going to learn. You know, if he went into a super โ
One thing that I've always let him do is I've coached him hard. We've held him accountable, coached him hard, but we give him an incredible amount of freedom to figure it out. And I think that was the only way he was going to learn. You know, if he went into a super โ