Yes, Wallace's accuracy has dropped by nearly 10 percent on corner 3-pointers and by just under 25 percent on above-the-break triples, but his field-goal percentage is also down just under 12 percent on shots taken inside the restricted area on top of that, he's getting a significantly higher share of his interior tries blocked, as Bontemps noted.Ībout 85 percent of Wallace's shots this season have come from one of those three floor locations - his highest mark since five years ago, when he basically lived at the rim and rarely fired from deep with the Bobcats - so if he's not getting buckets at the rim or from beyond the arc, there's not a whole lot of offensive punch he can provide an offense. But fourth option or no, his post-All-Star decline's been just awful - he's kicking in just 6.5 points per game, shooting 33.8 percent from the floor and 64.6 percent from the free-throw line (by far his worst performance at the line in a half-dozen years), and has made only seven of his last 47 attempts (a woeful 14.9 percent) from 3-point range.Īnd it's not just that his jumper's been janky the misery's been pretty well spread-out, according to NBA.com's shot location stats. He wasn't exactly an offensive dynamo earlier in the season, but he's fallen off a cliff since mid-February.īefore the All-Star break, Wallace was averaging 8.9 points per game on 43.2 percent shooting and connecting at a 35.1 percent clip from beyond the arc - not stellar numbers and down from his career per-minute averages (15.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per 36 minutes entering the season, 10.2 and 6 before the All-Star break), but everybody expected his scoring numbers to drop off on a team featuring Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson. So my main thing is those guys can score, so instead of thinking about it so much, just trying to focus on defense, try to move the ball and get those guys shots.”įirst thing's first: It's pretty understandable that Wallace has zero confidence in his offensive game right now, because there's not much cause for confidence.

“I think I lost the confidence of the coaching staff and my teammates. I’m in a situation where I feel like if I miss, I’m going to get pulled out of the game, you know what I’m saying? So my whole concept is just that you can’t come out of the game if you’re not missing shots. “My confidence is totally gone,” Wallace told The Post Saturday.

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