Hayes probably has more shot attempts already this year then Fino had ALL last year.

Not quite there yet. Delfino attempted 376 shots last year, Hayes is up to 130 so far.

With extended playing time Jayes will catch him by the All Star break.

Here's the Lowdown (is that copyright protected?):

Let's compare them this year.

Delfino-
In 510 minutes, he is 36-85 from inside the arc and 36-82 from 3pt land.
That is and eFG of .539 and 13FGA/40 min.

Hayes-
In 344 minutes, he is 46-89 from inside the arc and 17-39 on threes.
That is an eFG of .550 and 15FGA/40 min.


The only difference that I can see in their offensive production is that Hayes shoots a much higher % from close range (51% vs. 42%). That is likely due to all the post success he is having.


Delfino is kicking butt and so is Hayes. I think we would have been OK going either direction on this. However, Delfino probably needed a change and more minutes. The minor benefit to us is that Joe maintained a little bit of good will by not letting an unhappy situation fester.

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Uuuggh OK lets be totally objective.
Carlos Delfino was/is a good basketball player. The things that Carlos Delfino does well he was not able to do them here. Toronto is a better situation for Delfino to excel in. It would have made no sense whatsoever for this team to change it's structure for the sake of Carlos Delfino. Case in point some of us have had jobs where our best skills were never used, for a variety of reasons, the culture of the company, the ideal position was already being filled by a very competent person etc. etc. The same can be said for Delfino. Los needs mins and touches, he's not instant offense, he likes to play himself into a game and allow the game to come to him. There is nothing wrong with any of that, all of those are good qualities. In Detroit he did not have the luxury of playing that way, in Toronto he does, case closed. Delfino was never going to work here unless we dumped Rip or Tayshaun.

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CD played 82 games last year and had 376 shot attempts.

He has already tossed up 167 shots in 19 games or about 8.8 per game

Hayes has only 130 shot attempts in 18 games or about 7.2 per game

So CD is tossing up about 25% per shots per game than Hayes

Murray has 131 shot attempts in 17 games or 7.7 per game

So Delfino is tossing up 15% more shots per game than Murray.

So Delfino lead the race for gunner of the year award.

This would be the difference between the "Detroit" Delfino and the "Toronto" Delfino. He is a part of the offense in Toronto and even though not a "major" part; he plays enough minutes over there to get up some shots without forcing them.

This stat really does show how big a ball hog Murray is. Delfino is playing a ton of minutes in Toronto and Murray is getting only garbage time minutes and is still close to Fino's shot attempts per game.

So fellow ...

Last year Delfino shot the ball once for every 3.6 minutes he played
This year Delfino shoots the ball once for every 3.1 minutes he plays

So, he's actually shooting less this year than last.


Hayes last year shot the ball every 3.0 minutes
This year Hayes shoots every 2.6 minutes.

So, he's also shooting less than last year, and a lot less than Delfino either here or there.

Go figure.

You got that backwards.