Beasley is taking much better shots than last year.

(small sample size alert) Among small forwards averaging 25+ mpg, Beas has the 4th highest TRR. To get that type of production at that position, especially with Love and Pek at the 4/5, is incredible.

Since coming back from his injury, his PER has almost doubled (7ish to currently 12.9), his WS/48 was hovering around 0 and is now .033 (last year it was .035, for comparison).

My only criticism is that his shot isn’t dropping. Imagine, despite taking shots closer to the rim than last year, his efg% is down (.443 this year vs. .474 last year and .475 career avg.). I’m confident that this number will go up (even above his career avgs) and when it does we’ll start to see him more as the long term solution at the 3.

It’s unfortunate to see him vilified as much as he is, even though he was as much a product of the biangle offense as every other player on the team last year. He should get a clean slate too.

Interesting to see how many post-ups he’s getting, this yr vs. last yr. If only he didn’t shoot so many fadeaways out of them….in the Houston game he actually went to bucket almost every time.

there were points in the games when he was out that nothing was clicking. if rubio is on the bench, we don’t have much but contested 3s and Love in the low post. Although he takes bad shots, i would much rather have him take those shots then anyone else on the team. rubio and love have both had several games where they shot less then 35% and they had to keep jacking them up because we had nobody else

Been hearing the same thing from individuals who don’t want to give up on Beasley because he’s “so talented” and can score a lot of points.

I am a little tired of the notion that every team needs volume scorer to be successful, it’s not true, especially ones like Beasley who aren’t efficient. You just don’t win championships with Beasley types being your leading scorer and taking 17 shots to score 19ppg. He seems to be perfect off the bench and should only be played extended minutes when he’s hot, he isn’t the answer at sf, he’s too inconsistent. Hopefully when the season ends he isn’t extended his qo and they try to go after someone like Batum.

i hope his next team realizes this and never tries to have him guard SFs