Donovan was asked about Dosunmu’s comments, which he said he hadn’t seen, and he indirectly said he wasn’t against the midrange, but rather he was against the midrange for players who weren’t efficient at it, which is basically the entire roster his front office has given him. “To me, I think we let the guys play freely,” Donovan said. “I think when you look at some of the analytical things and I probably agreed with this a couple of years ago; Zach (LaVine) played mid-range, Vooch (Nikola Vucevic) played mid-range and obviously DeMar played mid-range. And as good as all those guys are offensively, we didn’t necessarily have an elite offense. Their shooting, all three of those guys, had the best shots of their careers while they were together at different points and times. So I’m not opposed to it. “I think you have to take advantage of the strengths of the players, so I think in the first part of the shot clock you certainly want to try to get something downhill to the basket, and usually what happens is when the ball goes into the paint and it shoots out, that’s when the three are going to go up. “Most of the time, the mid-range stuff comes from iso situations.
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