Weaknesses
With Marcus Morris, the capability to be an efficient scorer is certainly there, but sometimes he falls in love with shots that aren’t his, or takes certain shots because they are open, even if that isn’t what the team needs.
And for one month, that was kind of a big problem, at least 20 days in…
Marcus Morris’ shot chart in March (33.3 FG%). Yikes. pic.twitter.com/CugpIiIECp
— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) March 20, 2015
While Morris would improve, the biggest problem, in his percentages at least, was that he took a high percentage of his shots from an area that didn’t make sense for him to be shooting in.
Despite the fact that Marcus Morris shot roughly 44 percent on threes from the right side, he ended up taking 34 MORE threes from the LEFT side, where he shot just 31 percent.
And this was a problem that got worse and worse for Morris as the year went on. In March, 48 of his 84 three point attempts (57.1 percent) came from the left side, and in April, 11 of his 19 three point attempts (57.9 percent) came from the left.
Simply put, Morris could drastically boost his percentages and efficiency if he could learn to turn down open looks that weren’t necessarily his shot, and continue to work within the offense, although it’s not like that played too significant a factor in any of the team’s games.
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However, for Morris, shooting isn’t the only problem.
At times, Morris struggled with team defense, although his individual defense was much improved from the year before. Additionally, his offensive rebound rate dropped all the way to 3.9, which was not at all good enough.
Last year there were 13 different BACKCOURT players that managed a better offensive rebound rate. Overall, Morris ranked tied for 172 in the NBA, which means on average, every single NBA team had 5-6 players better than Morris in that area.
It wasn’t much different in defensive rebounding, as Morris posted the 125th best defensive rebound rate in the league, and the 143rd best overall rebound rate in the league.
For a 6’9″, 235-pound forward, that simply was not good enough, and it’s something that he’ll really need to buckle down and improve moving forward.
Next: Strengths