https://youtu.be/UA2AObV8Td8
At a certain point of last season, I want to say sometime in January, Jordan Poole was posting some of the rock-bottom worst shooting numbers that the league had ever seen. His eFG% was hovering around 35%, and only a few players in the three-point era had posted a worse eFG% in similar minutes to what Poole was getting. Nikoloz Tskhivlzikhzikzizki was one of those players, and you know that if you’re mentioned in the same sentence as that guy, your career has gone horribly wrong. Luckily for Poole, he really got better in February, and his effective field goal percentage of 40.6% isn’t even in the top 100 worst-efficiency shooting seasons of the three-point era.
Draymond Green’s rookie season is eleventh-worst, though. That’s funny.
This season is a different story. Poole is actually an efficient scorer. He’s completely overcome whatever woes were plaguing him during the first few months of his career where he was a horrible shooter. Major props are due to this dude. Everybody was hating on him (including me), and most people (also including me) wrote him off as just being a stopgap player for the injury-depleted Warriors, a player who would never stick around for long. And while those things were true about Ky Bowman, they were apparently not true about Jordan Poole, because Poole is still around and he’s playing pretty well.
You see the bursts of scoring that Poole displayed in this game and you think “how was this guy playing so badly?” The answer to that question will forever remain a mystery.