Re: Oh yeah

[Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>]

You can find these stats among others at NBA.com, at the individual
playerfiles under "Season Splits."

Walker:
 W: 43.3% fg, 41.5% 3fg, 21.2 ppg, 9.9 rpg, 3.6 apg
 L: 40.1% fg, 30.6% 3fg, 17.9 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 2.7 apg
Mercer:
 W: 49.3% fg, 18.7 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 2.3 apg
 L: 40.9% fg, 16.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.6 apg

The problem with telling Mercer, "Your shot is off, concentrate on other
things," is that while Walker can focus on offensive rebounding and passing, 
Mercer doesn't have the same level of skills in these areas. I do think 
that Mercer's passing has improved in that he actually passes during his
drives occasionally now, but he's certainly not a passer of Walker's caliber.

Alex

-- 
> Forgot to add this to my last post: has anybody (Tom? Warwick?) crunched the
> numbers to see what Walker & Mercer are shooting in Celtics' victories this
> season vs. losses? I thought about that after comparing the percentages from
> last night versus the ones against Philly. If somebody could show Antoine and
> Ron, "Hey, when you guys shoot 45% or better we win, and when you shoot 30% w
 *e
> lose," maybe, just maybe, they'd start to think, "Gee, I'm having a bad
> shooting night. Maybe I should lay off the rock and try to concentrate on
> doing other things to help us win, like passing, rebounding and defending."
> Instead, they seem to have this shooter's mentality of, "If it's not going in
 *,
> keep firing until you get hot." Which unfortunately seems to take until the
> next night to happen.
>