Coby White’s field goal percentage of 36 percent is one of the lowest for players who play real minutes. It’s a good thing that he’s had a couple really hot games shooting the ball, or he’d be way in the pits. But as of the time of this writing, he’s only 69th (nice) in that stat when considering all players who have played this season. Obviously that includes meatballs who’ve played 1 minute and missed 1 shot on 1 attempt (Kevin Hervey you rock) and other assorted fringe-residers who don’t get to play really. But it also includes a lot of players who I consider “pretty good”. There are just tons of players shooting in the low 30s percentage-wise, apparently. Dwayne Bacon. Wayne Ellington. DeMarre Carroll. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. I could go on and on here.
Is there some sort of epidemic in the NBA where a whole bunch of players just decided to start sucking at actually scoring the ball? I don’t remember it being this bad in years past, maybe my vision is tinted by rose-colored glasses, but there are just SO MANY people who are SUCKING. White gets a pass, he’s a rookie. What pass does Michael Kidd-Gilchrist get? The “my jumper is back to being irrevocably broken but I’m going to shoot more of them than ever” pass?
So White has escaped my wrath for his low field-goal percentage, but there’s no way he’s going to escape my wrath for turning his majestic afro into some tied-back dreads thing. Was that the plan all along? Because of that was the plan all along, to transform his afro (the best in the league) into something average and unexciting, I feel very betrayed. I thought we had something special, me and White’s afro.