Where do I begin, to tell the story of how.....
It was a disaster of a season. Notching up 15 wins. Wow!
OK, we lost Wade due to injury, we traded Shaq, but it's no excuse.
Here's some numbers black on white.
Scoring leaders:
Dwyane Wade 24,6
Shawn Marion 14,3
Shaquille O'Neal 14,2
Ricky Davis 13,8
Udonis Haslem 12,0
Marcus Banks 9,5
Daequan Cook 8,8
Jason Williams 8,8
Mark Blount 8,4
Bobby Jones 8,0
Dorell Wright 7,9
Chris Quinn 7,8
Kasib Powell 7,6
Earl Barron 7,1
Minutes per game:
Dwyane Wade 38,2
Shawn Marion 37,6
Udonis Haslem 36,8
Ricky Davis 36,1
Shaquille O'Neal 28,7
Jason Williams 28,1
Kasib Powell 27,6
Dorell Wright 25,1
Daequan Cook 24,5
Bobby Jones 23,8
Chris Quinn 22,4
Mark Blount 22,4
Marcus Banks 21,6
Rebounds per game:
Shawn Marion 11,2
Udonis Haslem 9,0
Shaquille O'Neal 7,8
Dorell Wright 5,0
Ricky Davis 4,3
Earl Barron 4,3
Assists per game:
Dwyane Wade 6,9
Jason Williams 4,6
Ricky Davis 3,4
Marcus Banks 3,0
Chris Quinn 3,0
Shawn Marion 2,5
So, the numbers above don't look good. It looks that Wade is leading us in
every category, but rebounding (Marion). Seems that there is too much
points diffrence between first and second top scorer (10,6). Phoenix has
something similar (Stoudemire 25,2 - Nash 16,9), but behing thease two
they
have 5 guys with at least 12ppg. Lakers fall in this point picture also.
But, they are both in the playoffs, and score a lot more ppg than we do
(Heat 91.4, LAL 108.6, Suns 110.1 ).
One bright thing that the end of the season has shown is the progress of
Barron, Cook, Powell, and above all, Quinn.
This is what the numbers say:
Quinn 7.8 ppg, 3.0 apg, 2.0 rpg
Cook 8.8 ppg, 1.3 apg, 3.0 rpg
Barron 7.1 ppg, 0.4 apg, 4.3 rpg
Powell 7.6 ppg, 1.6 apg, 4.0 rpg
OK, Powell and Barron aren't that young, but Cook and Quinn can be very
usefull, looking longterm.
I read recently that we broke the luxury tax this year. This could prove
to
be a big problem for next years roster. But we'll see. If Wade gets
recuperated, and plays in the Olympics,he should enter the season 100%
ready. Marion could extend, and maybe with some good trade we can add some
firepower to Davis. Maybe, next year we could slip in the playoffs, since,
luckaly, we aren't in the West.
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