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the Nets attempt 30.3 lay-upswow goldper game, a number that ranksed hardy clothingas 4th most in the NBA. You look at just that number and you think, wow, that is pretty good, and it is. However, when you couple that with the fact that the Nets are one of the worst teams in the league at converting these lay-ups, you are just left shaking yourNBA Jerseyshead at all of the missed opportunities. The Nets are second worst (tied) team in the NBA when it comes to making lay-ups. Their field goal percentage on lay-ups, as tracked by Hoopdata, is 55.4%. The league average is 60.4 percent. Looking at the Nets’ number attempts again, if they would be at just the league average, they would be instantly 3 points better (I took their attempts and determined how many they would make at the league average – it was about 17.3 – 1.5 more – or 3 points more). We have talked about how the Nets aren’t really playing good defense anymore and how they just try to outscore teams. If theycardy ugg bootsare going to do that successfully, they can’t leave points on the table, especially when they are coming from lay-ups.
When looking at the individual numbers, you start to see why the team has such a low FG% at the rim. The Nets only have 4 players on their roster shooting lay-ups at a percentage over the league average.ghd hairTwo of them are Eduardo Najera and Sean Williams, so really the Nets only have two regulars shooting lay-ups better than league average (Yi and Trenton Hassell).
I was shocked to see Brook Lopez (58%) and Terrence Williams (48%) with such low percentages, but I am willing to dismiss both of these because one, Brook Lopez has been doing this while facing double/triple teams early in the year, and I can see this number going up. As for Terrence, most of his missed lay-ups came early in the season when he was out of control taking a large number of attempts at the rim (a lot of floaters and fade-aways). His shot selection is much better now, so you can (or at least I can) expect to see his percentage to go up. So you take those guys out, there are 4 guystitanium fastenersyou can blame for this low FG% at the rim, and they are guys you can expect to keep this number