No Frank's misses really aren't harmful. He's a great kid too.
On another note, all the yoga we must all be doing to have our backs be able to bend this way is crazy, huh?
You have to look at possessions. In the Lake game, Franc went 0-8, but of his first 5 misses (I only saw/recall 6 of his FG's -- didn't see the 4Q), Knix got the 0-board twice and twice more tipped the ball once or twice and almost resumed possession.
Sometimes a missed shot is like a pass, if you draw a double team, miss a short shot and the unguarded teammate cleans it right up. That would be a quality miss, a quality possession. I believe somebody called those Kobe Assists.
The opposite of that is when you take a terrible shot that leads to your opponents getting an easy fast break bucket. Like say, Randle launching a contested 3 with LeBJ tattooed on him, the straight-on 3 clanking the backboard first then the rim then landing in Brow's hands and shortly thereafter LBJ's for an easy dunk, as he leaked out immediately after the contest, knowing it was a shit shot.
Unless I have an easy open shot, I'm always cognizant of whether there's a teammate underneath who can rebound. And some games even when I'm missing 3's, I'll keep shooting them if my guys are getting the rebound (and especially if boarding and scoring). It's the possessions that matter.
4 of Franc's first 5 misses were almost continued Knick possessions, two were. It's not like Franc super-compromised the D, but we have good rebounders and guys were down low in position to fight for the carom. So those turned out to be pretty good possessions despite the Franc misses. Hell, maybe the Lakes Bigs just weren't expecting Franc to shoot so much. But we had chances to get a 2nd shot, which is good.
I should add all 5 of those were reasonable shots that didn't go in.
If I'm Frankity-Franc and I miss 5 in a row, but the Knix keep two of those possessions alive, and almost corral two more misses, I'm feeling fine about those possessions and willing to shoot more. It's a team game. And if you're teammates can clean up your misses, those are solid possessions.
I didn't go back and analyze the Franc misses to see why we were contesting those rebounds so well. But we were, and it's possessions that count not shooting % or who's putting the ball int he basket (or how) . I found Julius' 0-4 on 3's more troubling than Franc's 0-8 FG, because of the context and use of possession. Lakes did a good job of bottling up Julius, leading to turnovers and a number of last-second passes after he went up in the air or made a spin move to nowhere.
Jr. Smith came in and lost his man on his first defensive assignment, then after a few passes got to his guy and got blown past. Yikes. Two different defensive miscues on his very first play.
We need to trade for Alex Caruso, so we can run Robinson-Caruso PnR's ...
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