From Zach Lowe’s 10 things: “The Oklahoma City Thunder signing Joe to a three-year, $6 million deal — after the Philadelphia 76ers waived him — probably stands as the most important free agency acquisition in franchise history. (Please read that again.)”
by elevenherbsandspices
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Here’s the excerpt on Joe:
> **Isaiah Joe, off the bounce**
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> The Oklahoma City Thunder signing Joe to a three-year, $6 million deal — after the Philadelphia 76ers waived him — probably stands as the most important free agency acquisition in franchise history. (Please read that again.)
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> Joe hasn’t played enough — 18 minutes per game — to butt into the Sixth Man of the Year conversation, but his shooting changes the look and feel of Oklahoma City’s offense. The Thunder have a lot of good perimeter players, but no one who shoots like Joe. He has drilled 42% from deep on 10.3 attempts per 36 minutes. Only six rotation players have a higher attempt rate: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Damian Lillard, Malik Beasley, LaMelo Ball and (not really a rotation player right now) Bones Hyland.
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> The Thunder are plus-6.4 points per 100 possessions with Joe on the floor, and a minus-1.5 when he sits.
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> In about 1,000 total minutes before this season, Joe had hit 22 pull-up shots — total. He was 8-of-30 on pull-up 3s.
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> In almost 1,200 minutes this season, Joe has 53 total pull-up hits — including a nice 27-of-72 mark on triples.
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> The Thunder are running sets to get Joe the ball on the move, and his pull-up shooting is a handy failsafe in the (rare) minutes Oklahoma City goes with both Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Josh Giddey on the bench. (Jalen Williams — making a late Rookie of the Year push — runs those units.)
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> The Thunder have scored 1.33 points on average when Joe shoots out of a pick-and-roll or dishes to a teammate who fires — No. 1 among 207 players who have run at least 100 such plays. (Joe has logged 111, but humor me!) The Thunder are kings of the guard-guard pick-and-roll, and Joe is an ideal screen for Gilgeous-Alexander; defenders are paranoid about leaving Joe, opening alleyways for the league’s most voracious driver.
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> Joe may never start for the Thunder, but he has established himself as a potential core rotation player.
Yeah I wouldn’t trade Joe and that contract for a lot of ‘better’ players in the league
Please post this on the nba sub. I want to see the cope from the 76ers fans.
“Not your average Joe”
Zach lowe definitely watches down to dunk
The most important free agency signing was probably convincing Paul George to re-sign here. We’d be waaaaaaaaaaaay worse off if he left for nothing like KD
If you don’t count Paul George or Dort then the competition is Felton, Fischer or Patrick Patterson.
I think Joe wins