![]() ![]() ![]() He's about to enter his 14th NBA season and has already logged a hefty 33,000 minutes between regular season and playoffs combined.Ĭonsidering the Bucks' lack of a true backup point guard, the upcoming season will once again see Holiday carrying significant weight. Holiday is no spring chicken, that is known. In fact, his pull-up three-point shots made up 27.9 percent of his total attempts from downtown last season, a notable rise from less than a quarter during his first two Milwaukee seasons. This was a marked increase from his previous high with the Bucks at 4.8.Ī substantial portion of these shots were step-backs, as he seemed to have found his groove with this move. Averaging a career-high 6.1 three-point attempts per game, he took his outside shooting to a new level. To counterbalance his dwindling shots near the basket, Holiday found solace in the land beyond the arc in 2022-23. ![]() Interestingly, he was better at converting these drives last season, aligning with the stats from Cleaning The Glass that spotlight his efficiency at point-blank range. Looking at his driving game, we see a slight dip in the number of his drives to the rim last season-going from 13 to 11.8-but this was still higher than his first year in Milwaukee, where he notched 10. A solid 57.7 percent of his shots fell into this category, compared to around 51.5 percent during his prior two years with the Bucks. Rather than taking tougher shots, Holiday was putting up significantly more attempts categorized as "open" or "wide open" by the NBA, as opposed to the previous seasons. Curiously, the data paints a different picture. My next stop on the investigation trail was to check if Holiday was struggling to create space from defenders, which could be another sign of declining athleticism. Jrue Holiday's shooting stats for the Milwaukee Bucks according to NBA.Com/Stats NBA.Com ![]()
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