Wait wisely in the corners. It would obviously be caricatural to sum up the offensive game of P.J. Tucker Thus. Nevertheless, since the start of the season, the strong winger, a real specialist in penalizing in the corners, is very little mobilized in the attack of the 76ers.
New illustration this night in Orlando where the former player of the Heat, the Bucks or the Rockets, preserved due to a sore ankle, did not score a single point in 16 minutes, and did not even attempt a shot! It was already his second 0/0 of the season…
” As long as we win, it doesn’t matter. Of course, we all want to get more shots. What player wouldn’t? But our way of playing – the coach (Doc Rivers) talks all the time about a lack of ball movement – is one of the explanations. Sometimes you get shots, sometimes you don’t. We keep playing and we get there “, relativizes the veteran with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
This season, he averages 3.6 points with 3.1 shots each night. Apart from his rookie season or his short stint at the Bucks ending with the title in 2021, he has never scored so little or tried his luck.
Benefit from the return of James Harden?
Author of a peak at 13 units at the end of October, the 37-year-old player has seen the phenomenon gain momentum for two weeks: in his last seven outings, he has only scored… 3 points with a sad cumulative total of 1 /15 on shots!
Sometimes forgotten by his teammates, the shooter finds himself lacking rhythm when he ends up touching the leather, which may explain his current concern for address. One would have thought, however, that with the absences of Joel Embiid, James Harden and Tyrese Maxey, he was going to recover shoot tickets. It was without counting on the rise in power of Tobias Harris or the emergence of the pair De’Anthony Melton – Shake Milton.
” Sometimes the ball moves, sometimes not. Without Jo, the ball must move, circulate. You have to create easy shots for others. That’s what it is “, continues PJ Tucker according to whom the return of James Harden, expected in the coming days, could change the situation. ” It’s different with James because he controls the game. He gives everyone the ball. Without James it’s complicated, that’s why the ball has to move around even more. »
Against the Magic tonight, the 76ers still signed their best performance of the season in terms of assists (32). But PJ Tucker did not benefit from it…
| P.J. Tucker | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2006-07 | TOR | 17 | 5 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 57.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| 2012-13 | PHX | 79 | 24 | 47.3 | 31.4 | 74.4 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 4.4 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 6.4 |
| 2013-14 | PHX | 81 | 31 | 43.1 | 38.7 | 77.6 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 6.5 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 9.4 |
| 2014-15 | PHX | 78 | 31 | 43.8 | 34.5 | 72.7 | 1.5 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 9.1 |
| 2015-16 | PHX | 82 | 31 | 41.1 | 33.0 | 74.6 | 2.0 | 4.2 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 8.0 |
| 2016-17* | All Teams | 81 | 28 | 41.3 | 35.7 | 77.4 | 1.4 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 6.7 |
| 2016-17* | PHX | 57 | 29 | 41.5 | 33.8 | 79.2 | 1.7 | 4.4 | 6.0 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 7.0 |
| 2016-17* | TOR | 24 | 25 | 40.6 | 40.0 | 68.8 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 5.8 |
| 2017-18 | HOO | 82 | 28 | 39.0 | 37.1 | 71.7 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 5.6 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 6.1 |
| 2018-19 | HOO | 82 | 34 | 39.6 | 37.7 | 69.5 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 7.3 |
| 2019-20 | HOO | 72 | 34 | 41.5 | 35.8 | 81.3 | 1.6 | 5.1 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 6.9 |
| 2020-21 * | All Teams | 52 | 26 | 37.3 | 33.6 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 3.7 |
| 2020-21 * | HOO | 32 | 30 | 36.6 | 31.4 | 78.3 | 1.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 4.4 |
| 2020-21 * | MIL | 20 | 20 | 39.1 | 39.4 | 60.0 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.6 |
| 2021-22 | MIA | 71 | 28 | 48.4 | 41.5 | 73.8 | 1.4 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 7.6 |
| 2022-23 | PHL | 19 | 29 | 45.2 | 38.7 | 75.0 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 4.6 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 3.7 |
| Total | 793 | 29 | 42.7 | 36.5 | 74.8 | 1.5 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 7.1 | |
