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Thank you, I certainly appreciate the kind words from you both.

Wow, my thoughts and prayers are certainly with his family. Hopefully he'll be found soon and unharmed.

IHeartAtlanta, on 23 July 2010 - 02:49 AM, said:

Welcome and by all means make as many new topics as you want. Good job on the mixes! In case you're wondering I've disabled automatic parsing of links for new members for safety reasons but once you get to 15 or 20 posts (I don't remember which off the top of my head) you won't be considered a new member anymore.

pimp, on 23 July 2010 - 11:34 AM, said:

That is part of it, the other question didn't ask him what he's working on, it asked him what we'll see from him next year.

This question addresses what he's working on and the thing that sticks out to me the most is he doesn't mention working on scoring inside at all and that is a problem.

TroupB, on 23 July 2010 - 09:46 AM, said:

And hopefully that is something that LD will address and correct with his offense. I don't know that I've ever seen an offense that ranked as highly as ours did in offense last year have so many very long stretches of not scoring as we did last year and most of those seemed to come in the 4th quarter.

AHF, on 23 July 2010 - 09:53 AM, said:

That's exactly my point. I'm happy to hear that he's working on his mid-range game but at some point someone needs to tell him that he's a tremendously efficient inside scorer and that our team needs him to focus on dominating in there because he's the best we've got at it. Smoove is an incredibly talented player and he can do many things very well but it's a double-edged sword because if he only concentrated on the things that he is among the very best at then he'd be an all-star without a doubt. If we could get him to stick to scoring in the paint, rebounding, and blocking shots he's capable of putting up numbers similar to Dwight Howard (except for rebounding numbers) because he is just as talented but he's got to focus on his game more and learn to stick to what he's best at. Dwight is only a mediocre jump shooter but you won't see him spending all day outside trying to shoot them. Take a look at these numbers:

Howard

Shot	Att.	eFG%	Ast'd	Blk'd	Pts
Jump	13%  	.250   	37%  	13%  	0.7 
Close	58%  	.554   	39%  	10%  	6.6 
Dunk	25%  	.961   	70%  	1%  	4.8 
Tips	4%  	.471   	0%  	0%  	0.4 
Inside	87%  	.665   	50%  	7%  	11.8 

Smith

Shot	Att.	eFG%	Ast'd	Blk'd	Pts
Jump	36%  	.285   	73%  	4%  	2.5 
Close	46%  	.538   	55%  	10%  	6.0 
Dunk	14%  	.930   	77%  	3%  	3.3 
Tips	4%  	.590   	0%  	0%  	0.6 
Inside	64%  	.630   	59%  	8%  	9.9 

What this shows is that Smith is nearly equal or superior to Dwight in shooting in all areas but where you see the MAJOR difference is that Dwight focuses on scoring in the paint and Josh tries to spread his shot selection out around the court. I'd like to think that is more a product of Woody's "system" but from the things I've read from Josh I think that is more of his doing and it's Woody's fault for not putting a stop to it.