{"id":101058,"date":"2022-03-16T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=101058"},"modified":"2022-03-16T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:10:46","slug":"washburn-boston-celtics-derrick-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=101058","title":{"rendered":"Washburn: Derrick White Poor Shooting is a Cause for Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since joining the Boston Celtics at the trade deadline, Derrick White has excelled in some areas. He\u2019s been a staunch defender and added some much-needed playmaking off the bench. But the one place he\u2019s struggled is with his three-point shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a recent presser, head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fdgonBRxaMw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ime Udoka stated<\/a> that White is a \u201cbetter shooter than he\u2019s showing.\u201d And for a Celtics team that lacks shooting outside of their two stars, that\u2019s something he needs to improve at in order to be at his best within the rotation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/category\/a-list-podcast\/\">A List Podcast on CLNS Media<\/a> to express his concerns with White\u2019s performance so far in Boston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Washburn: &#039;I&#039;m Concerned About Derrick White&#039;\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x892q9p?pubtool=oembed\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m concerned about Derrick White. 24 percent from the three-point line since he&#8217;s been with the Celtics. He&#8217;s getting open looks and they needed someone to hit these open looks. Jayson is going to get blitzed. Jaylen is going to have his attention on the defense. So you need guys to come off the bench and hit three-pointers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his first game with the Celtics, White went 3-for-7 from deep. Since then, he\u2019s gone 11-for-50, and in his last six games, he\u2019s shooting just 5-for-21. And as Washburn pointed out, most of the looks are open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe&#8217;s not shooting well from three. He&#8217;s 23 percent In the last six games. He&#8217;s got to start stepping up and knocking shots down. He&#8217;s getting open looks. They&#8217;re not contested looks. So he needs to be better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A shot is considered \u201cwide open\u201d if the closest defender is at least six feet away. Of the 57 threes White has taken since joining the team, 34 of them have been wide-open shots, according to NBA.com. White has only made eight of them, which averages out to 23.5 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washburn did note some of the things that White has done well, such as attacking the rim and facilitating, but he doubled down on the fact that he needs to start nailing his threes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe&#8217;s attacking the rim, I like that. He&#8217;s getting to the basket and making plays at the rim, with floaters or whatever. But Derrick White has start knocking down jump shots.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And he didn\u2019t stop there, instead choosing to criticize Boston\u2019s bench as a whole. Washburn said that although Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are the obvious pillars of the offense, the Celtics\u2019 bench needs to be ready to step up when necessary. Since the deadline, the C\u2019s rank 26th in the NBA in bench points per game (28.5).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo I want to see more from the bench, more from the complementary players from the three-point line. So I do think it&#8217;s a concern, how they were defended and how they didn&#8217;t score.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since joining the Boston Celtics at the trade deadline, Derrick White has excelled in some areas. He\u2019s been a staunch defender and added some much-needed playmaking off the bench. But the one place he\u2019s struggled is with his three-point shot. In a recent presser, head coach Ime Udoka stated that White is a \u201cbetter shooter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":131990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Washburn: Derrick White Poor Shooting is a Cause for Concern - CLNS Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On the latest edition of the A List Podcast, Gary Washburn expressed his concerns about Derrick White and his shooting numbers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=101058\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Washburn: Derrick White Poor Shooting is a Cause for Concern - 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